4th of July weekend

This weekend was AWESOME.  It was the first time we took the camper out this summer and the first time Nora went camping.  She was great.  I was a little nervous about how this was going to work out because we would have our kids and both of the dogs and just craziness but everything was awesome!  We drove up to Willow, Alaska (which is the location of the official start of the Iditarod) to go camping.  We were in a campground that was right on a river which was great.  We were meeting up with friends of ours (the Marvel family).  We got there first and spent some time playing around.  We had a really great time with them and the weather was completely amazing.  I actually improved on my tan.  We spent a lot of time on Saturday in the river playing around.  That water was COLD.  I think pictures might speak more than I could so.....here ya go!  (oh and they are not in any particular order)

Random fat man driving shirtless on a 4 wheeler.  Welcome to Alaska. 

There was a lot of peeing outside happening....

Whew.  Picture overload!  We had a great time though!  We definitely got some camping tricks from Aimee and Chris this weekend.