Camping with the Bass family

When Micah and I were first married we bought a small little town home in West Jordan Utah. As Newlyweds we were anxious to meet friends in our new ward together. The second week of church in our new ward there was a couple sitting not to far from us in Sunday School who looked about our age. I leaned over to Micah and said "I am going to meet her today." I went right over and introduced myself to Lana Bass and we have been the greatest friends ever since. In fact she is one of those friends that when you see them you can just chat and chat for hours on end (in fact we did almost do an all nighter one night without even realizing it). After all these years we treasure those great friends we met in our first ward together, and will never forget all the fun memories. When the Bass family extended an invitation to meet them at Palisades by Manti we did everything we could to be there. In fact we were already headed to Utah for our annual trip to Bear Lake so Palisades was a perfect stop on our way. We were able to spend two nights and three days with our dear friends.

It wouldn't be camping without roasting hot dogs and making smores!

We did a lot of camping with the Bass family the first few years of our marriage. In fact the last time we camped together I was just barely pregnant with Abbie (crazy). We even camped at Palisades together which had to of been over 10 years ago. Now we each have three girls who had such a great time playing together.

Lizzie enjoying some time cooking with her dad. It's so nice that our kids are getting to the stage that camping is becoming fun again. For awhile it was just too much work with such young babies. They are at the perfect ages to head out camping more often.

The beach was rocky rather than sand, but the kids still had a blast. In fact we spent one whole day just sitting at the beach enjoying the company while the kids played and played.

There were a lot of cute little fish that the girls enjoyed catching. The funniest was when they used a sand bucket to hold one of these cute fish and before realizing it Aliza had filled the bucket up with rocks. Poor fish must have had a huge headache if he did survive. Oops.

They were so tiny and cute.

The water was perfect for the kids to play in. Not far from the beach there was a floating dock that they would swim to and jump off--keeping their life jackets on at all times of course.

How we ended up with so many cute girls I don't know. They had such a great time together.

The Bass's were even kind enough to share their four wheelers with us. Abbie was old enough to drive this little one on her own. She, of course, had a blast.

Unfortunately, I came home with absolutely no pictures of the adults on this camping trip. That means that we will just have to do it again sometime. hehehe Thank heavens for life long fantastic friends. I sure wish we could see more of you more often.