Alta Lake

Well, our first camping trip of the year is in the books and boy it was fun!  We returned today from four days up at the Alta Lake Group Campsite (which is a great site with lots of grass for the kids) near Pateros.  The weather was interesting... it ranged from hail the day we got up there to really windy to beautiful, sunny skies yesterday.  Thursday night when we went to bed, BJ checked our outdoor temperature gage and it was a whopping 23 degrees.  Yikes!  I was so thankful for our trailer and HEAT!

Jackson had SO MUCH FUN and it was really fun for BJ and I to sit back the last night we were there and watch him play with the bigger kids (instead of chasing him around everywhere).  I can't even begin to count how many times he gave them high fives or knuckles.  They were so good with him and it made our hearts happy to see how much fun he was having.  However, we struggled with bed time every night.... we would have big tears followed by "I wanna go outside" over and over.  Since Jackson is too big for his pack and play, we had him sleep in a "big boy" bed which consisted of an air mattress on our fold out couch.  He thought it was pretty cool and we were proud of how well he slept (once we got him to go to sleep!).  Check it out... the lizards had to go to bed with him every night too!

And here are some other pictures from the long weekend.  I tried not to go overboard but like usual, I still ended up with lots of pics. :)

Heading down to the lake - Jackson carried the bat the whole way :)

Beautiful day

Back at camp... playing some ball

 

Picture with Mom - BJ wanted to make sure I was at least in one picture

Trying to talk Papa into something

My favorite picture of the trip - Fathers/Sons :)