The Lee Clan

We had a fun weekend! We went camping out in Florence, AZ not far from where they hold Country Thunder! We went with friends of ours from the ward. The Larson's, the Cuthberts, the Lowrys and the Reeds. Jared the girls and I got there in the early afternoon. We went to the place where we camped last year and discovered real fast that we didn't want to camp there. It was full of cow manure. You couldn't take a step without having to shift the direction you were walking just so you could avoid poop. As we were trying to get out of there we sunk our truck clear to the axle in the wash. We have decided that we need two 4wheel drive vehicles not one. Jared finally got the truck out but couldn't pull the trailer out. About 2 hours later everyone else showed up drove to a different place to camp then Mons came back and used his 4wheel drive pick up to pull the trailer out. We got back to camp and set up, and the children were having fun taking turns riding on the golf cart. Put the kids to bed and then started making Dutch oven cobbler. The guys ended up going on a night ride because the Lowry's went back into town to get ice and couldn't find their way back to camp in the dark. On Saturday the guys went on a really long ride, 4 hours I think. On Sunday we didn't ride, sat around camp and talked about Conference talks, shot Jared's pellet gun. And we also had a 'Washers' tournament. Jared and Amber were the winners of that. Monday the guys got up really early went on a ride clear out the to "Coke Ovens" http://www.desertusa.com/mag01/jan/stories/ovens.html .
Then it was the Ladies turn to go on a ride. We rode Clear up into Box Canyon on 2 quads and the golf cart. We had a fun time. On our way back we stopped at an area were you can ride up and down hills, there are jumps that you can do also. We had a lot of fun, But the guys had to come and rescue us because Azure crashed her quad into a ditch. We couldn't believe how much wild life we actually saw this trip it was awesome. The kids really enjoyed watching Hawks swoop down and catch a meal. All of the cows that were all around us. And would occasionally follow us on our bikes. Snakes, and Gila monsters and of course bugs. Breanna and Amber really liked the bug they saw after all of the other children were in bed. We think that it was a Sun spider, it's jaws were the biggest things I have ever seen. We watched it for a good 20 minutes catching moths in the light and rolling them up like a burrito, sucking the insides out and tossing them aside and catching another one. It was the discovery channel in real life.

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