In the past two years we've been on a lot of camping trips and this has quickly become our favorite family activity. However, some time around Christmas I realized that we had never been camping on our own...just the 4 of us. So, I asked around and got a great suggestion from one of my dad's co-workers to try out Purtis Creek State Park and it did not disappoint. We left out on a Thursday afternoon, got a wonderful site on the corner, got the camper set up and proceeded to just enjoy being together...just the 4 of us. We took a long bike ride, had a great hot dog dinner Thursday night, made some delicious smores, and stayed up REALLY late watching Princess and the Frog all cuddled up in one bed. Friday morning the boys went on a bike ride while Rachel was content watching a movie in the camper - you can do that when no one is expecting you or waiting on you! Then we went on a hike that turned out to take much longer than we had anticipated. Clay got dad of the year award for carrying Rachel on his shoulders for about 45 minutes while hiking. We ate lunch, played card games and memory, rode our bikes some more (thank you, Marc & Heather, SO MUCH for letting us borrow your truck so we could all take our bikes!), had a great taco dinner, ate smores again, and settled in for a wonderful rainy night. When we woke up Saturday morning it was about 30 degrees colder than it had been the day before and it was raining hard. It really was a great memory for us because the kids sat in the truck and watched a movie while Clay and I did our quickest packing and loading job ever. I think we should give ourselves some kind of award for the way that all came together. For some reason I was a little nervous about heading out on our own, but now I can't wait to do it again. Just two of the 157 (I'm not kidding) pictures Rachel snapped from her little spot in the bike trailer - I'll spare you the other 155, but just imagine these same photos from several different angles and at varying degress of clarity!
dinner time
the girl loves her movies
start of the hike
smores
we've come a long way since our 1st camping trip exactly two years ago
Sounds Heavenly!! It looks like you guys had a blas! And I can't believe how much the kids have changed in two years. They were BABIES!!!
ReplyDeleteI love Rachel's little pigtails! Looks like a great time. And, thanks for mentioning tacos. I get so tired of hot dogs...tacos are a great idea for camping food.
ReplyDeletehow stinkin' fun! i wanna go!!! having a camper would be awesome! i asked marc's parents if they could watch the kiddos for us on our anniversary so that we could atleast go camping. hopefully it will actually happen:)
ReplyDeleteI know we've said this forever but seriously we need to get our children together. Let's meet in the middle and camp sometime! ALthough I've never camped in my entire life, but that's beside the point.
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