This was our third, and last year at Challis.
Challis is an annual camping trip that "Recruiting Station Salt Lake" (who Paul works under) has each year. It's partly for training, because the Marines are spread all over several states and rarely can get together for such, and a little bit for fun and camaraderie. When we arrived in Montana Paul worked under Great Falls, so we always camped with Great Falls. The first year I was the only wife in our camp, The second year there was two other wives and a female Marine, along with all the guys, and I was 4 months pregnant. This year all the 4 Marines in our camp had wives, and three of us had babies, AND.. two of us had babies that were born only 2 weeks apart!
I think this year was the most fun of all the Challis'. Yeah the first year we (i) partied harder, but I was hungover more too, and I think last year was just way hotter, this year was hot, but not horrid, and we partied, but not too hard. We even played cards against humanity!
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| Evey likes the Q |
This year we did get rained on the first night, it rained a lot, maybe not as much as the first year, but enough to make the tent leak and to piss me off.
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| hanging out in the shade under moms clothes line, to dry all of our wet stuff |
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| High five Renji! |
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| Too hot, must sleep |
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| Hawk |
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| baby party |
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| S'mores for lunch? Don't mind if I do! |
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| morning snuggles with the pooches |
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| Evey and her BFF Emma |
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| Keepin cool with our frog toggs |
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| Aiko shared her frog togg |
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| Aiko in the Salmon River |
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| Aiko and Renji in the Salmon |
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| There's an Evey in that pouch |
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| "What? we can't play in the mud?" |
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| Best S'mores on the planet! |
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| We partied a little |
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There is a baby in a Ergo Carrier under that blanket.
I know.. I'm so mature |
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| Packed up to go home! |
All in all it was a great time and we all made new friends. We laughed and shared stories. I am a tiny bit sad that this was our last year, but the Marine Corps has a new adventure waiting for us.
- Alana
looks like so much fun!
ReplyDeleteYay! We had so much fun! Emma misses Evey!
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