Camping at Strawberry

Camping at Strawberry
Sept 9-11

Matt and Matisyn have been planning for months to go crawdad fishing for "Daddy's birthday."  Matisyn reminded us all the time about it, and I'm not sure who was more excited.  We invited Matt's family and some of our best friends to come with us.  None of his family ended up being able to come, so we were so happy to have our friends be able to join us.  It was a rough start, with nothing seeming to come together or work out as planned, but ended up being a really great trip.  We got there on Friday night and stayed until Sunday afternoon.

No camping trip is complete without smores and a campfire in our family!

Emilyn and Matisyn were fighting over who got to play with Matt's fishing net.  He wasn't too excited about it being dragged across the ground and thrown into trees, but the girls thought it was an awesome toy!

Mad face on Emilyn

At Strawberry Lake on Saturday.  It rained all evening, so we were so lucky to catch such nice weather during the day to spend by the lake.  Thankfully the Barretts arrived with fishing license in hand because both the Thygersons and our family forgot!  Kind of hard to have a fishing trip without one!

Our girls love being outside, and are both pretty happy to climb around, throw rocks, and fish.

Thankfully Emma was a great help in keeping Emilyn contained because she was all over the place.

The beginning of the crawdad bucket.  The kids all got a kick out of catching crawdads, and would hardly wait a minute before checking their strings or the traps.  I didn't try them, but the fish lovers in our group said they were delicious.  I can't get past their exterior to try how they taste on the inside!

Emma with her little Emilyn shadow

Emilyn disappointed when there weren't crawdads in her net!

The bucket getting fuller

Matisyn and Brody

Emilyn was using her net to dig crawdads right out of the pot.

Matisyn caught a fish.  I'm always surprised by happy she is to catch one.  She loves animals like me, but doesn't seem affected by the hook sticking out of their mouth or their unhappy flopping around.  She was so cute, and so proud to pull it out and hold it.  I love all of her expressions.

Matisyn in trouble for running away from us when it was time to go.  The kids were painting wood chunks with smashed berries.  It was a little messy!

Visiting Grandma Barb to help us wrap Emilyn's ankle.  She sprained it sometime on Saturday and could hardly walk.  It was so sad to watch.  Luckily it only lasted a couple of days.