Finally finishing that fishing merit badge

So, the Slade fishing curse seems to apply even to the Cooks. Happily, Jerran finally caught something, brought it home and cooked it to finish the merit badge. Some of the kids ate it and declared it "not horrible"! That's my fault since I haven't cultivated a love of eating fish in my kiddoes. Great weather for fishing!

Since I'm here anyway

Em informed me today that my name is Mrs Mommy Cook. It's good to know one's place in the world, no?

Birthday Party!

As I was loading my new CD's into iTunes the kids were going crazy dancing. I caught a little of it.

False advertising

 

This is a slot canyon?

With my emergency roadside flare I will

I think that going camping at the last minute is the only way we will go. Once I start thinking about all the things which will go wrong I very prudently decide that we should go camping 'luxe' style in the cabins up at Carter Creek. Then I decide that we can't afford it and we stay home instead. This weekend Ben's scouts were supposed to go camping up the South Willow Canyon near Grantsville, UT. All his scouts wimped out, so we went on a last-minute family trip instead. At least because it was so last minute I didn't feel a total fool with all the things we forgot.



Luckily we had coals the next morning and didn't need to use another flare to have a fire in the morning. Sadly, I completely burned the dutch oven dump cake for dessert. There was some in the middle which was mostly edible, it just tasted well smoked.

Campin' we will go

 

We are seasoned campers. Note the expressions of ecstatic happiness! There's a reason we haven't gone camping for the last year.

Court of Honor