Morri's: EASTER to the camping degree

Here it is again! Every year. Its Easter and you'll find out on the desert a campin! So this year we went back to "Falling Rock." Sounds like a cool camp spot right? Really its just a place just off a high way somewhere in between Green River and Hanksville in the San Rafael Swell (in the middle of no where) where there is a big rock that looks like its falling so my great aunt affectionally calls it "Falling Rock."
This year really was incredibly nice! Let see who was there? Tallie and Jim got there Friday morning, Neal and Britt got there Thursday night, Scott and my parents of course were there. Krista's family could not make it this year, which was really weird and made our family seem really small. And then of course Brett and Mark couldnt come because of work and illness. Anyways much of how Easter goes, depends on the weather (remember last year?) So I'll give a quick recap. The night we got there was so warm and the moon was so bright that even though it was dark and close to 9pm, we had to problem setting up our tent. We roped Scott into helping us set up camp and he willingly agreed because he had to tell us all about his new girlfriend, Breanne. He is so twitterpated it was cute. This is his first real girlfriend. (Ha! Real?!) So excited for him.
Anyways that night turned out to be a little different than the hours before. When we went to bed it started getting breezy, by 1AM I could have sworn we were going to be lifted up and carried off like the house on The wizard of Oz. It woke Cordelle and I up multiple times scaring the crap out of us. Wind in a tent is Loud! Luckily the kids were zombies through the whole thing.
The next day we did Easter baskets in a cool morning and spent the afternoon driving to our old camp spot "Snoopy" (again affectionally named after a rock in the shape of Snoopy the dog off of Charlie Brown.) We can't camp there anymore because of lame new BLM regulations but we ate lunch there and climbed the ultimate sand hill that brings back so many memories of my childhood. It takes a fit person about 20 minutes to climb to the top of it. But even me with my pregnant belly (and Tallie pushing me up the entire way) made it in about 30 min! So fun! It was hard watching Neal and Tallie running down it at full speed like we used to when we were kids. There's even a part at the top that is really steep that you can jump off a sort of ledge and get some serious air into the sand. It was fun. Cordelle stayed behind with Jaq and Gaven, and I took Seth with me. He did great! At the top is a huge rock cliff that we would hike when we were little and I took Seth with me and it scared me to death having him there with me. I don't know how my mom did it with all us kids. I think I have some pictures of this little 4-5ft ledge we walk on to get to the adjacent mountain, with a HUGE drop off to the side. We did a little rock climbing which was very humbling for me, because for the first time in my life I had to have my little brother pull me up a a crevace in a rock cause my belly got stuck and my stomach didnt have the muscle power to pull myself up. Probably should'nt be doing stuff that intense while pregnant anyways :) Theres this little nitch in the side of another enormous cliff that we spent a lot of time when we were little we called "Echo" (thats right because you can hear your echo like 4-5 times because of all the surrounding cliffs and mountains. So I really wanted to show Seth. Unfortunately it was so windy, we could barely stand (which does not make for a good combination for an unbalanced, over protective pregnant woman an a 5 year old boy! Besides the wind made for a zero echo effect. Bummer. But still stoked to do the little climb after probably 9 or 10 years! Actually we figured the last time we were here was when Cordelle and I were engaged. We even hid a little treasure under a tree that we tried to find but had no success with. :(
ANYWAYS....we spent the rest of the day at Dead Horse Point and driving around before heading back for dinner. It was a good day to be driving cause it really was pretty cold still.
The next day was perfect. We had decided earlier that no matter what anyone else had done, we would travel Friday but chill on Saturday and chill we did! It was the perfect weather day and we stayed at camp playing games and eating our brains out! We made a scavenger hunt for the kids using the GPS on my phone. Their prize was Chipmunks Chipwrecked, which they were extactic for! They got to watch it in Grannies trailer and we got a non kid interupted game of Settlers in with Scott. We finished the day making a perfect dutch oven meat and potatoes dinner and had Grandma and Grandpa Durrant eat with us. (My dad left for the day to work at the temple, and Neal and Britt went with my mom on a day long hike....that ended up being a REALLY long hike cause they didnt get back till 9:30!)
Sunday we woke up went to the usual sunday easter meeting, had lunch with the extended family and packed up and went home. It was weird not having Krista and her family there but overall, I thought we had a fantastic easter outing once again! Here's pics from the weekend! (Of course)

only 3 kids this year at the easter basket trail head! (Gaven, Jaquelle, and Seth)

Easter baskets

Everyone from the family that was there: Tallie, Jim and Gaven. Neal and Brittlyn. Our family. Scott (taking the pic) and Grandpa and Grannie Annie

At snoopy on the sand hill. Its kind of hard to see but right in the middle of the pic are the cars.

Grannie on the hill! She is awesome!

The ledge that we as kids ran up and down over and over again...which I bravely took Seth on all way up.

Recovering after the sand hill climb....(I tried to get Neal to turn around)

Tallie and Jim

Heres a good picture of the cliff.

And here's ECHO! Our little cove where normally we can hear our echo 4-5 times! The ledge is probably hundreds of feet high and its super steep to get down there.