Our favorite Bathroom.................

We went camping at the Azaela campground inside Sequoia National Park. Azaela is a first-come first-serve campground. We drove around and found a site that seemed a little bit roomer and didn't have neighbors right on top of us. The only downside was that the bathroom was a little ways away. Which wouldn't be a big deal but with a 3 year old and 5 year old who usually wait until the last minute to go to the bathroom this wasn't always convient. It was usually easier to get in the van a drive to the bathroom. These campsite bathrooms had what Kirsten deemed to be "noisy pottys". They didn't have soap and there were only 2 stalls that were usually taken.

We discovered "Our Favorite Bathroom" while exploring and trying to find the trail to a giant sequoia tree. This bathroom was VERY clean, had SOAP, MULTIPLE stalls, MIRRORS, and was just a QUICK walk down the hill off the backside of our campsite. The only problem was that they did have automatic flushing toliets. Kirsten DOESN'T like automatic flushing toliets, however by the end of our stay she had decided that those pottys weren't as noisy as the other ones in the campsite.

This was actually a really nice dayuse picnic area.

Tunnel Log- Sequoia National Park

It was so neat to see how excited the kids got when we drove the van through a huge log.




I guess it isn't everday that you get to drive your car through a log!

Sequoia National Park/ Kings Canyon National Forest

Grandma with the kids in front of a huge stump!


We took a tour of Crystal Cave. It was pretty good and the kids seemed to enjoy it, except for the hike back up to the parking lot.

Marin checking things out.

Mondel & Kirsten with their headlamps on because the cave had limited lighting.

We took a couple mile hike and this was the view from the top.

Preston and Kirsten enjoying that fact that they made it to the top.



Kirsten and Grandma checking out the Christmas trees. Kirsten wanted me to take a picture of her with this wildflower that she found.

I had to take some pictures of this beautiful purple flower. It was great to take a hike and enjoy being in the middle of nature.

More Christmas trees................

It was hard to see the trail in some spots so we explained to the kids about trail markers. They had a lot of found looking for all the trail markers after that. Marin even enjoyed making her own trail markers.

Here we are, the Farnsworth Family in all our camping glory.

Jen and Mondel (I'm not liking this picture, but I had to include a picture of just the two of us)

We had a wonderful weekend camping and seeing all the sites in Kings Canyon National Forest and Sequoia National Park. He had a great campsite. The weather was nice. It was very relaxing.

Playing together ................

Kirsten, Samantha, and Lexi doing their favorite thing when ever they are together.........playing POLLY POCKETS!!

The four little girls posing for a cute photo with their babies.

Marin was having a great time with her baby cousin Landon.

Unfortunately, Landon wasn't having a good a time.........he wanted his mommy!

One of the kids took this picture........Mondel is being weird, Landon is crying, and I'm looking at someone. I'm not sure why I included this picture, but I do like the way it captured Mondel in a new light that not everyone gets to see.

Uncle Jeremiah is always the fun one.........agreeing to jump on the trampoline with the kids.

Team work.........Girl Power......sometimes that is what you need to get it done.

Emma kept trying to play with Landon, but he wasn't too sure about that!