Memorial Day Weekend 2009

Pine beetle damage

Madison sleeping

It was in Spiderman, friends and sex in the city...
from New York, New York to LaBarge Wyoming

Ava in front of Lake New Fork

Madison on our way up

our finished railing

she did it herself

Catching her first fish

We decided to go with my dad to New Fork to go camping. We told him we would help get the camp ready for the scouts to come up since that is why he was headed up. We left Friday afternoon and drove up to meet my dad at the job he is working on and then went to New Fork. We thought we were gonna cook cause the air conditioner wasn't working so it was really hot, luckily both kids were sleeping and so were the dogs. We waited for my dad to get a ride from the site to where we were waiting. Dad told us the moon dancer cafe that was in spiderman movies is now in La Barge Wyoming, we wanted to eat there but were afraid we wouldn't make it to the napa if we did to fix the ac. WE decided to eat in Big Piney/Marbleton. We got the ac charged and looked for somewhere to eat, there was a chicken place in a gas station, Subway in the gas station also and a cafe bistro, the dinner at the marbleton inn and a place called the cafe verde dinner. Seth thought Mexican sounded good, but we knew it would only be open if they could find someone to cook(a very very small town). Luckily they were open. We went in and sat down. WE looked at the menu and there was ;like 3 things that were remotely mexican. after eating we headed up to camp. It was lots of fun. After getting there i helped dad get the water going. Seth thought we were somewhere else and wandered around with the kids looking for us, he didn't realize we could hear him if he yelled. The next day some of the other people there to get the camp ready were cutting down pine trees infected and killed by pine beetles and one cut his leg with the chain saw, but it wasn't bad and they got him patched up. we went to see the waterfront while my dad did an electrical walkthrough to check all the poles and boxes(he is a master electrician and they needed one to check good thing he loves new fork and it was a good chance for us togo up too) we went to the waterfront since ava loves to wander and we knew she wouldn't fall in the cold cold lake. we found a spoon at the beach and ava took it to dig everything she could. The beach trails trees although she got a little mad since the spoon wouldn't go in the spoon. It was her treasure. she told grandpa all about it too. We got her to leave it although i think she thinks we have it. We ate some breakfast and went fishing. It is still pretty early and we thought we wouldn't catch anything but when in new fork fish. We actually caught one. We threw it back, but Ava was the one who relled it in, she liked it til it came out of the water. We went back to the cabin we were staying in and Ava suddenly was terrified to be there and all she wanted to do was go home. After one long night we got up and let her go play. She climbed every rock with in site. she loved climbing the rock and throwing rocks and playing in the dirt. Althought her favorite was realling in the fishing poles. she didn't get you have to let them sit and wait.
After lunch we caught another fish, but we couldn't throw it back cause it was pretty much dead so we kept it. We threw the line back out and Seth got a bite, unfortunately he forgot to set the hook and it got away. after some more fishing we took the kids back to nap and fix the railing on the cabin. It had been broken by the snow and ice coming off. We all had lots of fun fixing it and doing various other projects. We finished the day by going shooting. Ava was terrified by the gun shots, Chinook and Loki wanted nothing to do with it, and Madison slept through it,I think because she was in a sling with a blanket around her ears and my body to block it. we ate dinner and Ava was again afraid of being there at night.
The last night we did some roasted marshmallows and went to bed. The next morning we fished a little more and got cleaned up the boys went to shoot the 22 my dad cleaned the nght before and we headed home. we saw a moose when we got to the main road and the ate at the moondance dinner on our way home.
It was a wonderful and fun weekend, the only down part was the killer migraine and side ache i got the day we headed home. My side stopped hurting but my head is still alittle sore. It was so fun to see Ava love playing on the rocks and being in one of my favorite places , my favorite as a kid.

Oh Madison turned 2 months old on sunday and ava turned 2 1/2 years old on monday...crazy how the time flies