Success! If you have to pitch a tent take your resident engineer along!!!
Our very first campfire! If you don't have an engineer maybe you could take Tucker...he loves to give advice!
I'm still not sure if he likes her...
Our first night enjoying the fire.
My sister Katie and her boyfriend, Kain...pretty sure they got more family "fun" than they bargained for!
Campbell appears to be enjoying her
and might have discovered she has a thing for s'mores too!
Doesn't she look like the world's happiest dog here and yes, she loved canoeing?
Four of THE cutest unsuccessful fishermen ever!!!
This is our only family shot from the weekend. We forgot to get one when Katie was there and our camp "neighbor" seemed to be a "one shot is all you get" kind of lady. Oh well, we'll take it!!!
We really had a great time. It was not perfection but a lot of fun. Todd LOVED it and I love that he loved it and by the peaceful sound of sleepy heads in bed I'm pretty sure the kids would say they loved it too! I thought we did great for our first time. We did go canoeing/rafting with all the kids. Katie and Kain took Jackson, Tucker and Finley on a raft (clearly we could not have attempted this without them...thanks guys!!!!!) and Todd and I took Cooper, Campbell and the Roxie dog in a canoe. I'm sure it goes without saying that a three hour river ride with our bunch was not relaxing and in fact there was quite a bit of panting and stopping and a little bit of screaming there at the end. You know you can't possibly go 12 minutes on a river without stopping to pee, snack or drink or drink and pee or snack and pee or whine about needing to go pee or just pee. Memories...we made memories!
The campsite was super crowded because of the holiday weekend. This meant that there were too many people coming and going and large RV's moving to just let the boys run. They were wound up after a long cool and rainy week inside so they found it hard to be on their best behavior. This added just a teeny bit of stress (along with CK not being the greatest sleeper) but they didn't scare us off and we are sure to sign ourselves up for another squirpy camping adventure someday!!!
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