We just got back from an awesome weekend trip with our good friends James & Kelly Barton. We drove to Scofield where James' family has a cabin. It was close to a 3 hour drive, but it was well worth it. Carter did ok during the trip, but he had a first hard night falling asleep. We tried to put him down as usual, but he cried and cried. We finally got him out and tried to snuggle him to sleep, but he just wanted to play. So we let him stay up until past midnight! Crazy, we know, but then he went down pretty quick after that. Unfortunately he didn't stay asleep nearly long enough into the morning.
Anyway, let's not dwell on the lack of sleep, but on the super fun time we had! We enjoyed lots of 4-wheeling. Mike & James took the 4-wheelers all the way to another part of Scofield where there was a private lake that we had access to...legal access that is. ;-) It was super dusty so Mike's semi-white shirt was no longer white. We'll see if it will ever be again.

One of our favorite parts about the trip was shooting all of the guns. There was this shooting target that everyone else could nail, but it took Christina about 2 rounds to get 2 hits. Carter quickly got use to the sound of blasting guns. He was just more interested in the 4 wheelers.
Oh well, it was fun anyway. Christina's favorite part though was shooting the rifles into the lake. It made the coolest noise and explosion in the water. James & Kelly were super nice to humor us and let us use all of their ammo.

Talk about too much food! It is a tradition for James to make tin-foil dinners. Only 3 of us ate them, and as you can see on the portion size we could have fed 3 people per plate.

Of course being over Pioneer weekend, we had to play with fireworks. This video doesn't do the extent of the flame justice, but we think that you'll still be impressed.

We so enjoyed the time away, and we are so thankful for all the Kelly & James do for us.