JKLM Jenkins: 'Merica

Luke pretty much summed up our feelings about camping at Canyon Ferry for the holiday weekend.

We had a beautiful full moon (or close at least) for our first night of camping.

Luke says its not a camping trip without a fireside photo of him sitting on dad's lap. We've done this yearly, and it's been a fun tradition.

My little pyro. With Ruby close by.

Friday we set out on the boat with our sun shielding hats.

This is the camp we left behind. We are the far left, and we camped with 4 of these families. The other 4 on the right are friends of a friend/coworker -- we had a lot of fun!

Mike is a good enough surfer that he could take the boys on the board with him. Josh LOVED it!

There were moments of doubt...

and some of fear...(look at how tightly Josh is holding onto daddy's leg!)

But he loved it, really he did.

No rope! That's how they fell without hurting themselves. And they got to truly surf with no rope for a bit...very cool.

Luke was up next, and he was a bit more tentative than Josh.

Very quickly he got really scared and then wanted to stop. He is crying and asking daddy to throw the rope, his fingers are almost to the nose plugging position. Poor guy.

We somehow convinced him to try it again. He looked like he was having a lot more fun this time!

Even felt comfortable enough for the hang loose sign!

he's still kind of concerned, but mostly enjoying it.

This is toward the end. It's a nice half smile/half scared expression.

And we have the nose-plugging position. Ha ha ha - he's pretty subtle isn't it?

This is our view from the window of our camper. the lake was like glass for two days, but turned nasty on Saturday night. I like this view of our little floaty "relaxation station" and Ben's boat a lot!