Memorial Weekend- Camping at Two Rivers

Our First time camping last year, here in Nebraska, was NOT a pleasent one! And still our kids wanted to go camping again this year. Even with us reminding them of all the "FUN" we had with the deer ticks. Seeing that we could not change their minds, we picked a place far away from the camping spot we went to last year. We scheduled a 3 night camping trip at Two Rivers, here in Nebraska. The First day and night went well, on the Second night things didn't not so go as good. A thunderstom came in and we pretty much got rained out. Then our van would not start on the third day. Towards the evening of the third day we finally got our van to work, packed up and headed to the Mathison Campground. There we finished our special foil dinner, roasted smores for dessert and finished our third night camping on a clean, dry floor. =) Isn't camping fun!? The things we do for our kids?!


Here are the famous dogs that my kids grew to LOVE while we were camping for the weekend. The gray one was Liahona's favorite, her name was Ananna. And the Brown one was named Savannah, the other kids like this dog the best.




Playing at the playground was an ongoing free play for the kids. They loved having a campsite near the playground, so they could run back and forth, since "Mom" could still see them. Plus we brought our wakkie takkies to stay in contact with eachother, this made it a little more FUN!





We bought worms to give Lake fishing a try. Eric is more of a river fisherman, and tends to think that Lake fishing is too boring, but he was still willing to teach the kids how to fish. Our worms all died by the next day, so the kids were a little disappointed that we couldn't fish anymore. Tamara was the most interested with fishing, out of all the kids. I however was thankful that we didn't catch anything because I didn't want to clean it, cook it, or eat it! YUCK!






Here we are playing in one of the many lakes around the campground. They all were very brown and pretty yucky looking, but it was really warm outside for us Northwest people. So, we decided to take our chances just like everyone else and cool off in the lake. The kids had a blast playing in the sand and splashing in the water. Montey has really taken to the water lately, and has become a true water baby. I think this was one of the many highlights of the camping, that the kids liked the BEST!