4th of July at Lake Navajo

It has become a tradition for the past couple of years that our family along with some of our closest friends all go camping to celebrate the 4Th of July! Last year we spent in Sterling and this year we decided to go a little further and Camp at Lake Navajo. Talk about beautiful camp grounds...you really couldn't ask for a prettier place. Ryan and Sliver drove up Thursday Morning along with the kids while everyone else worked, They got the campsite set up for all of us, so when we pulled in at 4:00 in the morning we could come right to bed! We woke up early Friday Morning and took in the beautiful mountain scenery ate some breakfast and then hit the lake. Boy was that nice, not a ripple in the water! We spent most of our morning swimming and wakeboarding in New Mexico...we didn't even know we were in New Mexico! After spending the morning out on the water we came back to the campsite to have some lunch, good thing too, a crow decided to ran sack our campsite, and ate most of our bread and chips. After lunch a little storm rolled in bringing with it some lightening, rain and crazy wind....I sat in the tent with the kids trying to keep them calm while the rest of the group stood outside holding our canopy up and Mandy and Silver's tent. The storm soon passed and we enjoyed a beautiful Rainbow that it had left behind. After the storm we made dinner and ate Smore's we headed to bed early as we had big plans for a long day out on the water Saturday. The rest of the weekend ended up being sunny and hot...we spent hours upon hours on the water...Our group experienced many firsts over the weekend, Blake got to go tubing for the very first time and he loved it! David learned how to wakeboard for the first time ever thanks to the teachings of Ryan, and he really did do a good job, I did my first face plant, can't say I enjoyed that, but in 5 years this was my first so I've been pretty lucky!! and Alina finally trusted her life jacket and swam in the lake with all of the other kids!!! We left Monday morning to head back home, it was a gorgeous ride back, and we had a great time with our friends! Each year the camping trips seem to get better and better!