Tonto National Forest

We miss the good ol' days when Brian and I could just grab our sleeping bags and some movies, jump in the car and go find a place to pull over and camp. Now we have to plan out our outings and pack a ton of shiz. Brian is in the transition of jobs at the moment so he had a few days off. We wanted to take out the boat and go to Lake Pleasant and camp out for a couple of days. When we pulled up to prep the boat Brian noticed this centipede half alive on the road it was huge to say the least. I am so so so glad that it wasn't alive when he had gotten out of the truck. Brian tried to start the boat but it wouldn't turn over for some reason. After working on it for 2 hours going to 3 different places for new spark plugs that didn't end up working and dealing with a tired, cranky, cramped up baby we both had had enough. We decided just to take the boat back home and go look for a camp spot to stay the night. We ended up driving up through Cave Creek and came across Tonto National Forest. They had some camp grounds that worked perfect for the night. We were even lucky enough to score quite a bit of fire wood and had a pretty nice fire to heat the absolutely freezing night. We brought Mya's play'n'pack but just ended up letting her sleep next to us because we needed the blankets and didn't want her to freeze. We all slept okay due to not having air in the air mattress (Brian left it in the boat), the weather being freaking cold, and worrying about rolling over Mya in the middle of the night. All in all we had fun and it was good for our little family to go out by ourselves and build memories. We can't wait to do this later down the road with our other kids and roast some sh'mores.