Bumping Lake Trip

Our last vacationing activity was a trip to Bumping Lake with my fam. We bundled up for most of the weekend and we were glad Mom & Dad and George & Chelsie shared their trailers so we didn't have to freeze in the tent. The poor, lonely tent sat there empty the whole weekend. :) We will have to break it out again someday when it is warmer. 

playing hide and seek with the boys--they were all giggling like crazy. :)

Darwin liked going for "horsey rides" on this branch. :)

Darwin is flying!

talking on his "phone" (aka flashlight)

Hanging out in the trailer

warming up by the fire!

playing baseball with C-man! :)

C-man had the best pitching stare-down ever! And when he was done giving you the stare-down, he pitched the curve ball and then bent himself over to distract the batter. It was awesome. He's so dang fun! :) Video below of his mad pitching skills. 

Braving the cold to hike to the bat caves

The "out" side of the bat caves. The water runs through it and that's how the cave was created. It was pretty neat to see, but hard to get any pictures. We didn't see any bats, but we did see a mouse--ick.

We are camping!

One day, we went for a drive to Mt. Rainier. We decided to go up to Paradise Visitor's Center and spent a bit of time there. On our way back to camp, this is what we saw. We had a nice long drive around the other way. It was an adventure. Still a fun day. :)

Glow stick wars!

Chelsie and George made an awesome birthday dinner for Michael! They dutch ovened it up with BBQ ribs and cheesy potatoes, and then made this chocolate "turd cake." Nasty looking at first, but it came out okay, huh? :) It was delicious and so thoughtful of them to make it special! Thanks, guys! 

And what family camping trip would be complete without a little car trouble? We parked our car when we got there and other people drove the next few days. When we were packing up and getting ready to leave, we noticed we had a flat tire due to a bolt or nail or screw or something that had been sitting in our tire the whole time. Bummer. But, we have been through this before; it was great to have help this time, too. :) Thanks, Dad and Richard.