Monday, August 17, 2009

Casey Reunion- Big Horn Mountains

This year the Casey family reunion was camping in Big Horn Mountains!! My favorite place to be!! Because of our wonderful friends Josh and Becca I rode up to the mountain last Friday the 7th to begin in on the fun. They have the best traveler kidos and they were the best back seat buddies I have ever had :) They were very generous sharing their snacks :) The first night I slept in the Sorenson's camper trailer. We got to go to dinner and have Erica as our waitress... best ever btw!!! I had a lot of fun with Doug, Erica, Josh, and Becca!! Thanks for everything guys!!

Steve was working and couldn't come camping until the following Tuesday. The campers headed home Thursday, but Steve and I stayed for one more night alone together. We went fishing at Shell Lake, on Shell Creek below the dam, and Lake Adelaide. At night after dinner, we had an unsuspected visitor come to camp... a big bull moose!!! It was near dark so the pictures weren’t the best ever, but he stayed by camp for an hour before leaving. He crossed the river into our camp and was 10 yards away grazing for food for ever. He didn't mind we were there and even let us get pictures in. So we sat by the fire and watched the moose 10 yards away for our night’s entertainment :)




Lake Adelaide fishing...



Camping with the Casey's...

Gotta love Cameron's mustashe :)



Stacey and Autumn...


Cameron proudly demonstrating his ability to tie his shoes:)



Cookout with Casey's, Jensen's, and Sorensen's... FUN times had by all!!



This was soooo cute! They sat in line waiting their turn to bat :)


Lounging in the Sorensen's amazing camping chairs!! Laid back!!


Fishing at Casey's pond... I thought this pic is classic. All the men fising without a kid in sight. Attention spans for kids are short :) It seems after a couple casts they are uninterested... But thses guys are a great help and the kids had a lot of fun fishing.
Casey's pond is named after Steve's great uncle Frank. He was a forest ranger and built the kid fishing pond.

The tie die crew!! Cute!

The Darren and Brenda bunch!

We had some great fishing trips, campfire games, meals, and family time. My family (parents and sister Tami and kids) was able to visit Wednesday night. We played campfire games and roasted marsh mellows. I forgot to take pics, but it was sooo great that they came!!!

Thanks soooo much to Curt and Cathy for making the camping trip so great. You put in a lot of work to make the family reunion amazing!! We appreciate all that you do!!
Video of our visitor... kind of hard to see since it was almost dark and moose are black!

3 comments:

Phillips Family said...

Looks like a fun trip. We totally miss you guys. We thought we would see a larger variety of coats on Ruth throughout your photos...maybe next time.

Brenny said...

So much fun. How cool that the bull moose was right in your camp! Didn't we have a deer do that, too. You must bring the luck, Ruth!

Darren and Mandi said...

looks like you guys had so much fun! camping is the best. :)