Labor Day

What a wonderful weekend. Perfect weather in the great outdoors! Ray has been working 40 miles into the Floodwoods, outside of Clarkia, for the past week (he's up there again this week) so, we decided to take the boys up to their campsite for the night. When I was little I used to spend many summers camping up behind Clarkia on my Great Uncle's Land, it's probably been 20+ years since I've last been there but, it's still in the family and we found it! Talk about tears threatening to fall when I walked along the banks of the creek and crossed the wooden bridge. It was so much fun to tell Ray & the boys about all of my memories from camping there and watching the boys throw rocks in the water. We are hoping to talk to my cousins next summer and try to spend a weekend up there. The boys loved it just as much as I did and were excited to stop both Sunday & Monday. When we made it to camp, Ray's boss had his boat up there, so Ray hiked us a mile into Dworshak where they had the boat "parked." It was a good thing we went in, the boat was pretty much beached, and half under water, due to the lowering of the water. The boys had a good time fishing despite not catching any fish & Sean throwing his new fishing pole overboard. We hiked back to camp where the boys mountain climbed and created a fire ring for Daddy's camp out of rocks. Ray took us up the rock pit they are working in and of course there was rock climbing! The boys were pretty pooped when we got back early Monday afternoon (and pretty dirty, too)! I think Ray & I were more tired than them! The boys slept pretty good & each of them only woke up once, Ray started a fire and they fell right back to sleep. Needless to say, we all went to bed VERY early Monday night!