Easter Weekend

Easter weekend is seriously one of my most favorite weekend of the year. (why yes, I do have a lot of favorite weekends) ;)
We always go camping with family. Easter weekend kinda kicks off the camping season for us. I love it. Our school district always has spring break the Thursday and Friday before Easter. Long weekends are always nice! (It does help that both of us are currently in the Education field).

On Thursday morning we started packing and getting ready to go. We didn't actually leave town until 5:00PM. Seems like we had a million little errands to run, but we finally got out of town.

We went to Piute Reservoir. We packed up the truck and loaded up Bruce and hit the road.

We set up camp (with some great helpers) and had a fabulous weekend.
(oh wait, I forgot one tiny small detail - on the way Bruce had an accident. Diarrhea everywhere. Poor Dustyn. Poor Bruce. Poor noses.)

Bruce got some burrs in his paws so Dustyn let Bruce lay on his lap (not that Dustyn had any choice in the matter) so he could get them out. His fur is so matted from the trip. Guess it's time for Bruce to visit a beautician. :)

We did some fishing and caught two fish. We had quite a few more that were almost in, but didn't actually make it.

Everyone else obviously caught more than we did.

We cooked some fish.

Roasted hot dogs and marshmallows.

Spent lots of time by the fire.
(it rained a lot)

We played in the fire a lot. (Not in front of the kids, of course)
I love being an adult. lol

We played with Bruce.
He smelt like a wet dog. Ew.

Wish you could see how big he really is. But you would have to see him in person.

 We rode 4-wheelers and froze to death while doing it. (it was raining)

We played with the kiddos and some silly bunnies that came by.

We loved hanging out with family.

Admired the beautiful scenery.

(that is our camp on the other side of the lake)
Good times, good times.

I love me a nice vacay.

Bruce

As requested, pictures of Bruce! (I would go take a few right now, but it's dark) These pictures are from when we were at Piute in the Spring. Dustyn was trying to get Bruce to look at the camera. Not such an easy task.



Those are the only pictures that I have on my computer. :)

Poor Bruce

Apparently we had some excitement at our house yesterday. Too bad we missed it.

I was just getting out of school when my dad called and told me that there was quite the crowd at our house. I was a little confused and asked why. He explained.

There are quite a few power lines in our back yard and numerous trees that have overgrown them. We have called the power company time and time again. They keep telling us that those trees are our responsibility. Well apparently all the wind yesterday caused the transformer or something to start sparking and started a grass fire in our backyard. Well the back yard is still weeds. Dry weeds. Now, black weeds. Someone saw it sparking and noticed that it started the grass on fire and went and sprayed it down with the hose. Thankgoodness. They called in the fire deparment to make sure that the fire was out and that everything was okay. I guess we had quite the crew of officers, fire dept, power company and of course The Reaper. Blah.

Poor Bruce was scared to death. It burned up to where his area of the yard starts. There aren't any weeds there so it stopped, but I am surprised the wind didn't spread it more. The wind was crazy. But Bruce hid behind the shed. Nobody knew he was even back there until dad showed up at the house and went to check to see if he was okay, then he came out. I went and petted him and tried to calm him down, but he was pacing back and forth. Everytime I tried to leave he would start crying and barking as if saying, "Please don't leave me, PLEASE!!" I felt so bad for him.

By the time that I got home everything was fine. The back yard was still smoking, but not buring!! They cleaned out some of the trees, but there are still a lot back there that are eventually going to cause problems.

That was our excitement for the year, and we missed it.

Grrr.... beagles.

So for the past few days there have been these two beagles running around our neighborhood. I have no idea who they belong to, but I wish they'd find their owners with those sniffy noses of theirs. They run around sniffing and howling like they are tracking something. Apparently whatever they are tracking has spent a significant amount of time in our back yard. I know you are thinking, what's the big deal... well their howls sound like a dying ... something. Nothing that would come from a cute little dog. Both of them sound different. Put them together and it's torture. But they just run around sniffing and howling hot on the tracks of something.

This morning they were running around and Dustyn could hear them. Suddenly he heard a bang and the howling stopped. After it was gone for so long he figured someone must have been just as annoyed. But after he went to school, they started up again. They have been running around our yard and the neighbors all morning. I can't shew them away. Dustyn can. They just look at me like I am stupid.

Bruce gets annoyed and wants to bark at them. But he has been pretty good today. He just sits and watches them run around the yard with their noses to the ground. I know he want to bark... but he's a good dog. But the dog next door wants in on the action too. So much barking!

Maybe they will find their owners soon. I sure hope. I have never seen them around before until this last week.

Seven Mile

We went up camping last night! It was so nice to just get away and relax. Not think about anything or do anything. Just play games and talk! It was so nice! The weather was nice. Cool! It rained! We took Bruce! He loved it and was excited to go, just not excited to get in and out of the truck when we got home. Dustyn basically had to lift him in, it was funny!

Of course, we didn't take any picutres. We are slackers! We'll work on that!

Piute Reservoir

Today (Saturday) Dustyn, Bruce and I went to Piute Reservoir to go fishing. We tried to fish for a little while, but the wind was blowing and so we gave up and basically just hung out. It was nice and relaxing. Bruce kept peeing all over, marking his territory I guess... but man oh man... he left a pile of poop that will make anyone gag... and it was right up wind. So we spent the whole day smelling wonderful Bruce smells. I was quite surprised, when we got to the lake he went to get a drink and basically plunged into the lake. It was pretty funny.... then we had the lovely wet dirty dog smell as well. A day full of smells. But lots of fun.

We took a little camp stove and made potatoes with onions and bacon... and bratwurst with sauerkraut and mustard! YUMMY! Good stuff! Then we just hung out and complained about the smells coming from Bruce (well at least that is what I did).

Here are a few pictures... i was going to take some good ones, but Dustyn forgot that he took the batteries out of the camera bag awhile ago and never replaced them... so at the last minute I remembered that I had my camera phone... but the sun was in my eyes. But they kinda turned out. Dustyn was trying to get Bruce to look at the camera. Not an easy task when you are trying to make a 200 lb animal do anything.