Our camping spot was beautiful! Right up against the rock and really close to the bathroom. This was a necessary commodity since we made Lily drink a ton of water to stay hydrated and she has a small bladder.
This camping trip was pretty spur of the moment. We weren't sure what to do for food since we don't have any camping cooking stuff. And then from the depths of my brain I remembered that I learned how to cook out of a can when I was in Young Womens. So we went and bought our favorite soups and a can opener and we were ready to cook dinner! 
The sand at our site was amazing! It was like we were at the beach...except we were in the desert. 
For breakfast we heated up some muffins and some already cooked bacon. I was pretty impressed with our cooking capabilities despite our limitations! 
Vegging before dinner.
The sand dunes were so fun and they were only a couple blocks from our campsite. It was kind of chilly once you dug down past the top layer. Dan got motivated and dug a hole big enough for all the girls. Kara didn't like it. I have to admit I was a big claustrophobic with my legs stuck beneath such heavy soil. 
If you look closely you will see that Lily has sand in her teeth. She's a hard cord sand girl!
Kara did this a couple of times...she gave up that we were ever going to go home and just toppled over. Poor girl! She was so tired!
Me at the top of the Pioneer names mountain. It was one of the scariest things I've done in a really long time. Dan had to climb up and help me down...I've never climbed that big of a mountain before! And there weren't very many hand holds going down. I was pretty proud of myself once I got over being scared.
The pioneer names. These men founded the neighboring town. They wrote their names with grease from their wagon. Pretty cool, huh? Funny how these names are "history" but if we were to write our names on rock walls now it would be considered "graffiti" and "illegal."
This picture is definitely going on my wall! So stinkin' cute!
This one's going on my wall, too. We have such cute kids!
Lily was dying to take a picture of us so here we are!
The top of the cliffs where we went hiking. It was beautiful!
At the top. Lily wasn't hardly afraid of climbing anything. It made me a little nervous that she wasn't nervous.
On our way up to camping Dan realized that he had a mandatory meeting at 2:30 pm (it was 1:00 when we realized this) and then he had to go to work at 5:30pm for an hour. So after he set up our tent he headed out. It was a bummer because we were on this vacation for his spring break!!Anyways, I wasn't about to sit around so the girls and I went hiking. The hike was only a mile and the travel guide said it was a moderate hike. Moderate means "not to great with kids all by yourself" I found out. It was a pretty hard hike with steep climbing. But we made it with only a bit of blood.
There were checkpoints where you could learn about different plants in the area. At each checkpoint Lily had to "bear her testimony." It was pretty cute. 
The next day we went on the same hike so that Dan could go with us. Kara thoroughly enjoyed pulling on Daddy's hat.
What a cute family!
Dan decided he wanted to climb as high as possible. This isn't as high as he went but in the picture that I took of him you couldn't see him he was so high. So this is him about half way down.
A cool archway.So a lot of pictures but what a fun time we had! We want to go again as soon as possible. Anyone locals want to come with us?
