Bayly Camp Out: Hobble Creek

The Bayly's headed up to a nice little spot near Springville for our first camp out of the year, a place called Hobble Creek. It had a lot of huge trees for shade, hookups for the trailers, and very few bugs, which was nice. It also had tons of paths to explore and a nearby creek. As such, this post will be heavy with Finn pictures, as the the other three kids made themselves scarce with their cousins.

Thursday night we got off later than planned, therefore necessitating a dinner stop at the In & Out.

Look at that face... he knows how tasty those fries are...

Rory made good use of the bubbles we brought, using them to entertain Finn on more than one occasion. She palled around with Grayson, and got so filthy it looked as if her natural skin color were an unhealthy gray.

Dany and Avery spent every waking minute together, even meals. I don't think they fought even once, and seemed completely content in each others company, coloring, board-gaming, whatever.

 Maisie spent all her time with her boy cousins, playing in the creek, fishing, exploring, having a ball.

Finn mostly worked on charming his aunts into playing with him and sneaking him treats.

Aunt Carolyn gave him duct tape to play with... cunning genius...

Finn also managed to get himself fairly dirty, despite the fact that he wasn't able to crawl or really move much of anywhere. As such, we threw him in a trailer bath.

He loves baths, so he was all for it. On Friday, most of the adults and some of the older kids took turns at a nearby firing range. Teag went target shooting to try out different sizes/styles of guns that his brothers-in-law own, but when it was my turn, they'd switched to tactical shooting. We set up a scenario with four bad guys, and a hostage, and I didn't embarrass myself too badly :).

It was actually loads of fun, I could have spent a lot more hours out there.

Thanks to Kris and Tom for setting it all up and being so patient and instructive! It was a really fun camp out, and our kids fell into bed exhausted every night. Looking forward to taking the Bayly's to the property this August for a reprise!