Sand Hollow 2011

The much anticipated camping weekend has come and gone.  We left Thursday night around 11:30... drove till we were tired. (3 AM)  We woke up at 6:30 AM and drove to Cedar City for a break.  The kids were so great for the whole driving experience.  The slept most of the time and while they were awake they stayed plenty busy with their toys and watching DVD's.  Then we were back on the road at 1:00 PM and arrived at Sand hollow around 2:00 PM. 
Sand Hollow was amazing!  There is something to do for everyone...fishing, swimming, sand dunes, rock climbing (4x4 style), normal camping, sand castle making, camp fire doing, plus so much more! As soon as the kids were out of the motor home we were instantly in the ranger heading to see what exactly was out there. 
We first drove to see all the camp grounds, drove around the lake, let the kids play in the lake while I caught some pictures, then we drove some dunes and then did some 4x4 rock climbing. 
The rest of Jason's family arrived 2 or 3 hours after we did.  Once they were there, there was lots of socializing and then more 4x4 rock crawling and then some dinner and some camp fire time.
Saturday started at 7:30 AM, we started off eating a group family breakfast of breakfast burritos.  After they me and the Jason and the boys headed off on the sand dunes to see where they all went, we found some big rocks to climb and found lots of trails to drive on.  We were gone for 2-3 hours.  We came home and ate a big lunch, and we were off again on the ranger with Rick and the family in the gopher killer.  We headed out on the same trails that we did earlier that day.  We found a huge slick rock to try to climb.  Jason was successful with a wench and Rick was successful with out it.  It was something else to watch!  Once we were gone 3 hours we headed back to let the kids play in the lake.
The lake was a great place to cool down and un-wind.  It was a perfect soft sandy beach that was very shallow.  The kids go go out quite a ways before it was too deep.  The kids also played on the paddle boat and made sand castles.
After the lake time we headed back to camp to socialize and let the "men" go on a men 4x4 ride up more rocks.  Once they were back, we ate dinner and had another camp fire. Then we headed back to the motorhome after a long day of fun. 
Sunday morning started early.  Sunday mainly consisted of eating breakfast and packing up and heading home.  Our 8 hour drive went quite well.  We had to take a breather in Lehi to see my family and then we called it good and finished out our Journey. 

 here  is Jace on Daddy's lap during our last half of our drive down on Friday morning

 Dayton on the last bit of driving friday morning

 Dayton on the beach on Friday

 Jace on the beach on Friday

 I wanted a picture of me and the boys

 Jace and his daddy

 Jace splish-splashing!

 Dayton enjoying the dirt

 The trail at the top of the mountain looking down at the lake

 The grand kids on Friday night

 Saturday morning on our little family outing.  Me and Dayton wanted to climb this huge rock

 Jason and Dayton on another huge rock

 A picture of where our travels led us on Saturday morning

 A picture of the grand kids on the 2nd outing of the day.  They are all sitting here watching Rick doing some rock climbing

 Rick at the start of his slick rock run

 Here is Rick working his way up

 Rick made it to the top without having to use a winch

 Saturday afternoon at the lake

 Jace enjoying the sun on Saturday afternoon

Dayton enjoying the water in his undies!  (:

We had so much fun that I told Jason that we need to make it an annual vacation destination for us.  The only thing that we didn't get to do was go fishing.  We thought that we had a boat lined out but that fell through.  It was okay though.  We were so busy playing that we hardly noticed that there was no fishing.  (Good thing Dayton didn't even notice!  he was really excited to fish but he was too busy playing to remind us of it)