Happy 4th of July!

We spent our 4th of July weekend at Hawley Lake...same as last year! The weather was beautiful! While it was over 100 degrees in the valley, temps were in the mid to upper 70's at the lake! We even got to enjoy a nice rain storm with hail (something the kids had never seen before!) The not so enjoyable part about the rain was that Jim, Hannah, and our friend's 2 kids were out on the canoe when it started to down pour! They all came running back to the camper LAUGHING!

Hawley Lake is truely one of the most beautiful places to camp in Arizona. It feels so peaceful and quiet when you're there. Oddly, cows roam freely about this indian reservation...and will even come right up to your camp site! As you'll see in the pictures, we had an early morning visitor to our camper! He even tried to lick our grill clean! LOL

As we were packing up to leave, the kids and I were sitting on the back ramp of the camper eating Cheetos as Jim was loading up the canoe. All of a sudden, this HUGE cow came wandering right up to us! I thought the kids would be terrified of the big animal walking our way. So I jumped up and started smacking the bag of Cheetos to make loud noises while saying "Shoo! Get outta here! Shoo!" I HAD to protect my children from this wild, raging beast who was likely to attack and eat us for breakfast! Well, my plan worked, and the cow went running off. And you know what Hannah's first words were after all this commotion?

"Mommy, why did you slap my Cheetos?"