This summer, every Friday the kids and I went on a field trip (Field Trip Fridays). The kids bursted with excitement every Friday morning when I would tell them about our trip. One day we went to a new park and had a picnic, another we went to "This is The Place Park", another - swimming, another Lagoon Amusement Park, and so on.
Tim and I decided we needed to end the summer with a BANG! We went on our first family camping trip last Friday. Our poor kindergarten teacher heard about this field trip ALL day (we didn't tell them until we pick them up from school).
We headed up American Fork Canyon to Mutual Dell (only 30 minutes from home in case it turned into a disaster!!) with 2 other families. We set up camp, had a campfire dinner, then went on a snipe hunt. We taught the kids the "snipe call" (two claps and a who hoo) and told the kids that these little "animals" loved campers, crawling on tents and picnic tables.
Tim took the kids on a wild goose chase to catch these critters.
Tim and kids looking at the tent to see if they could spot a snipe
Finally, they caught their Oreo cookie - with pipe cleaner legs - with eyes - SNIPE. 
Another highlight of the evening was the FIRE and eating smores!
Georgia thoroughly enjoyed being with the big kids and getting dirty!
Though it rained on us during breakfast, we survived with a smile (or a BYU touchdown for Abby) and will definitely do it again next year.
a success!
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