Camping Day 2...the food and fun!

Can you tell I have a sickness? I take waaaaayyyy too many pictures. We were gone around 26 hours and I took over 200 pictures! But, at least it makes for good blog material!

Saturday morning after I took pictures of the sunrise, I started on breakfast. The kids were still snoozing away in the tent!

We brought a cast iron skillet to use on the grate over the campfire. That's the first time we've tried something like that, and it was alot of fun. I made pancakes...


And we fried bacon and sausage! Yum!


Right around this time Chris heard a deer "blowing" in the woods. I heard it but never would have known it was a deer. He said they blow when they smell something they don't like, and I said, "Like bacon and sausage??" Ha!

These were the first two pancakes, that I overcooked. The rest were not burned!


I finally went in the tent to get the kids up so they could enjoy breakfast while it was hot! Claire was awake but just laying there, so she was all grins when I came in.


But Aaron was a little harder to wake up.


Look at this delicious breakfast!


After breakfast we all went to the playground. Aaron loved this see-saw but Claire didn't want to ride it much so Aaron was constantly begging her to come see-saw with him. Poor guy!


Claire preferred the tire swing!



We went fishing again!


Aaron baited his OWN hook!


The kids loved playing in the back of the truck. This is Claire with her favorite baby doll, Baby Judy.


You see Aaron rigged up a machine to pull chairs up. Future engineer, I'm tellin' ya!




Then we packed up and headed for home. Claire fell asleep before we left the campground.


And Aaron asked approximately 182 questions on the ride home.


Great camping trip! Can't wait until the next one!

Camping Day Two...the sunrise!

The lake where we camped has some gorgeous scenery! The lake is beautiful, with a covered bridge leading to a small island overlooking the lake. I took a few pictures close to sunset--here is one...



The next morning it was chilly and there was a fog over the lake. It made some beautiful pictures! I had a great time messing with my camera's manual settings to get the perfect shot.

Before the sun rose over the trees...


Here comes the sun!






One of my favorites--after the sun had come up...


More pictures to come, of all the fun we had on day two!

Camping, day one

I'll begin by saying that I really wish we camped more. We have got to start taking advantage of those open weekends with beautiful weather and pack up to go camping! We waited and waited to go camping until finally the weekend we picked was going to have COLD overnight temps. But we really wanted to brave it and go anyway.

Thursday night we went to Walmart to buy a few supplies and food, and I decided to get a sleeping bag. What a great $21 investment! The sleeping bag I bought was rated down to 30 degrees so I stayed nice and toasty in the 45 degree temps! Chris just used the blankets we always used and he was cold. Poor guy! He'll be buying a sleeping bag for the next trip! The kids had about 15 blankets on top of them and told us they didn't get cold!

It took us about 3 hours to pack the truck and gear on Friday morning, and we looked like the Clampits with all of our stuff packed in. I wish I had a picture of that. Luckily it was only a 45 minute drive to our campground.

The kids "helped" with the tent for a few minutes until Chris got frustrated with them and I took them down to the playground to get out of the way!




Claire just loved this tire swing!


Aaron talked about the missing rungs on the jungle gym all weekend.


Once the tent was up the kids had a blast running in it.


Aaron said he was ready to go fishing, so down to the lake we went.


Claire took her bubbles.


Aaron got a lesson in how to bait a hook.


Then he lost interest and started gathering acorns with Claire.



They filled his pockets and apparently he never dumped them out because every one of them ended up in my washer and dryer when we got home!


We took a family picture!


We had hot dogs, chips, and s'mores for dinner!




After dinner the kids were tired and kept asking to go to bed. They were so excited to sleep in a tent! There was some giggling for a little while, but then they got quiet and Chris and I enjoyed the evening by the fire.

More later---I got some great pictures on day 2!