Memorial Day weekend

My husband was able to get Memorial Day off, so we had Saturday through Tuesday to spend together. Yay! We needed some time away from the everyday and to relax. It's go go go around here. Saturday night when he got off work we went camping up Ogden Canyon. We enjoyed a simple but delicious meal. Before we left we rolled up a chicken breast in tin foil with a dab of butter and some poultry seasoning for each of us. We put that in our fire that night and cooked it for an hour. We also made some chicken broccoli rice on our propane stove. I was out shopping on Saturday for some camping groceries and groceries for grandma’s birthday when I saw my favorite vegetable was in stores…CORN! I bought two for Aaron and I. We boiled one piece and shared it while dinner cooked and oh goodness was it some of the best corn I have had. I didn’t even get a picture because it disappeared so fast. We played lots of Settlers of Catan that weekend. I bought Aaron that game for his birthday last month and we absolutely love it! It doesn't matter what we end up doing Aaron and I always have fun together.

We came back to my grandparents Sunday morning and for my grandma’s birthday. We cooked her pancakes and started on birthday lunch. I’m still getting used to taking pictures so I don’t really have any pictures from Sunday’s lunch. I can tell you it was one of the best. We made Wild Salmon and steak for those that didn’t eat fish. We tried a new kind of potato that was to die for. Potato Idea We took a russet potato and cut slices into it not fully cutting through the whole potato and stuffed onion slices in the cuts. Then we sprinkled some coarse kosher salt, coarse black pepper and garlic powder and rolled them up in tin foil with some butter and baked them for ninety minutes. Kenna, of course, enjoyed hash browns instead of my delicious potatoes. I was at Sam’s a couple weekends ago with grandpa and we were sampling. They had steak that was marinated in Olive Garden’s Italian dressing and it was really good. So on Saturday before we left I pulled out some New York steaks that I got on a really good deal out of the freezer and put them in the fridge with the Italian dressing dumped in. I made the salmon by putting tin foil down on a baking sheet and brushing it with olive oil, then putting the salmon on it and brushing the salmon with some olive oil and sprinkling lemon pepper seasoning on it. I followed this cooking method I found on Pinterest. The salmon did indeed turn out perfectly flaky. We also had a green salad and strawberry pina coladas. Grandma’s favorite part was the pina coladas. We bought her an ice cream cake from Coldstone, a cheesecake named desire, yellow cake, cheesecake ice cream, and raspberry frosting that Kenna decided to put on her nose. Needless to say Sunday was a food nirvana. YUM! 

goofin around with Katie

love us!

My favorite person in the world!

After we played a game of Greed and grandma opened her presents (a slushy maker from Aaron, Kenna, and I) we went back to camp. Kenna and Tay followed us and stayed until Monday night. Unfortunately breakfast did not go according to plan. It was supposed to be sausage, hash browns, scrambled eggs, and country gravy, but we ran out of propane. Luckily we brought muffins and the sausage got cooked before the propane ran out. We had sandwiches for lunch and also a good thing I planned to bring ham and turkey because the turkey ended up being bad even though it wasn’t expired. We had tin foil dinners (I’ll share that recipe that is one of our favorites soon!) that we had to keep re-wrapping and we ran out of seasoning. We stuffed Rolos in marshmallows and roasted them and made some s’mores too. The girls went home and we got rained out the next day.We always love camping and even though it didn't go according to plan we thoroughly enjoyed some time off.

We did some exploring and enjoyed the adventure!