Wichita Wildlife Refuge

What a crazy week! 

We were on our way up to Wichita Wildlife Refuge

for a little camping trip when we heard about the Boston Bombing. 

When we reached our campground, we went out and sat by the lake, 

reading and reflecting on the world around us. 

It's shocking what we as humans are capable of. 

After spending time there without all of the fuss of the world

it made me want to run off to some remote location in the mountains

and live off the land, no distractions, just us. 

Would you do it? If the world got bad enough?

Let's create our own "village" shall we?

Sparklers and Lighter Fluid

Welcome to Green Canyon, Logan's best camping spot!

We had quite the adventure Friday night while camping in this beautiful area... complete with hiking, grilling, cave dwelling, sparklers and the burning of uniforms and camping chairs.

Meet our friends, Shauna and Taylor.

 

Taylor likes corn on the cob

and Jacob likes hot dogs.

 Shauna LOVES sparklers

While Jacob LOVES burning things (like his Olive Garden uniform seen here)

 But burning his uniform wasn't enough, so he decided to get a little crazy and fill a can full of lighter fluid and put it in the fire...

This is what happened. (note the missing cup holder and burnt chair bag)

Fortunately this blanket got the brunt of the burn instead of his dear wife who was sitting there only moments before. 

Needless to say it will be a VERY long time until Jacob uses lighter fluid again.

Deer Droppings

 Jake and I have had a rather productive first week of summer! We enjoyed our first snowy cone of the season yesterday. Peach Raspberry. Delish.

 Then after slurping it in the warm sun, we decided to go on our first camping trip of the season!

We had lots of fun, except for the part where we discovered our mattress had a puncture wound, which landed us at home in our warm bed at 1 am :) Don't you just hate when that happens..?