McCall, Idaho

Uncle Lynn bid for a one week stay at this cabin in McCall at Tanner's scout auction and he won!  Lucky for us he invited us to stay at the cabin too.    

It was such a great cabin and all of the kids kept themselves busy and happy!  

In the yard around the cabin was a little meadow with lots of dandelions.  We made all the girls crowns and there was still enough for them to have a bouquet to hold.  Some of them made bracelets as well.

The rest of the evening was spent grilling pizza and the kids hiked and explored the area and created costumes from leaves, sticks, bark, flowers, and moss.  They were very creative (I don't have the pictures uploaded yet to show) and they even had names associated with their costumes: Kendra was Mother Nature, Porter was the Barren of Branches, Kara was the Ruler of Rocks, Micah was King of the Creatures, Tanner was Guardian of the Grasses, Peyton was Royal River.

Of course s'mores were necessary that night!

 The following day we headed to Payette Lake for a little swimming and playing.  We worked hard on the music video that we needed to finish too.

 Kara was digging and found clay which she collected and they all began to make clay pots which kept them very busy.

Ice Cream Alley after swimming sure hit the spot.  I love the little boys blue eyes!  Later that day Barry and Seneca took Tanner, Kara, Micah and Porter to Skunk Lake to go fishing.  They met Lynn and his dad there and caught a lot of fish.  They also brought a lot of fish back to the cabin, so Seneca smoked them in the campfire and apparently they were delicious!

On Friday we went for a drive up further into the mountains.  Uncle Lynn knew of a place called Crystal Mountain.  The kids were thrilled to be able to ride for some of the time in the back of Uncle Lynn's truck.

 We had lunch at the base of where we would hike to the top.  It was amazing to see so many crystals.

 Jaxson liked hiking in the snow when ever he could.

 We were hiking on a rock bed of crystals.  The kids and adults collected many!

 Jax thought this one would be nice to take home.

 This was the view from the top of the mountain, just beautiful!

 Here is the whole crew of happy hikers.

 Later we went back to Payette Lake and let the kids play in the splash pad there.

We finally finished our Belcher Family Music Video "Good Time" that we started back at Thanksgiving.  It was fun project to work on together!