We had a great camping trip this past weekend. Like most vacations however, it was a bit tiring, and it's taking a few days to recover! It's a lot of work going camping with two little guys, but definitely worth it! The strangest thing for me was actually being the parents, and being the one to take my children camping. Does that make sense? When you're a kid you don't have all the responsibility, and there is always mom or dad to look to for help. But this trip was a whole new experience since it's the first time I've camped since being married. It's a strange reality to have arrived at this place in life: I just had to sit and marvel at the fact that I have children now and my husband and I are the ones taking them camping and creating new memories for our family. So here are some of those memories!
Moses was excited, along with Elijah, to go camping!
We were packed and ready for our trip on Sunday morning. It's a tight squeeze taking a family of four camping in a small 4 dour car. Our plan was to go to church with our car packed and leave right after.
We were quite packed in!
It's amazing how much stuff we took camping with us! Most of which we really needed and did use.
Our campsite: You can see me by the fire on the left and our table is kind of messy. We arrived a bit later then we expected because we stopped to pick blueberries at a u-pick farm along the way! So we were hurriedly trying to set up camp and get dinner going because the boys were hungry. I made chicken in the slow cooker the day before and refrigerated it. We reheated it over the fire with BBQ sauce(wrapped in foil ), and then we had homemade pasta salad and baked beans (heated up on our camping stove).
Some good friends let us borrow their tent which was a great blessing.
Papa and Elijah. I didn't get Elijah to smile in this shot, but he really was having a great time!
Our first morning eating breakfast of scrambled eggs and sausage
We had a beautiful gorgeous day on Monday!
We hung out with some good friends over at the beach and the guys had a great time digging a moat around a big mound of sand. Do you see a resemblance in the background?
Janine and I enjoyed visiting and taking pictures of our boys having fun in the sand!
The Boys had a lot of fun!
Elijah sitting on Moses' lap in a little chair by our campfire
Beach Campfire
Our last morning hair, and there!
Moses sleeping so soundly, but I had to wake him yup so we could pack up our stuff. The boys slept great by the way, considering it was really cold and a whole new sleeping experience.
It was a joy to experience camping with our boys and be together as a family.
Our first morning eating breakfast of scrambled eggs and sausage
We had a beautiful gorgeous day on Monday!
We hung out with some good friends over at the beach and the guys had a great time digging a moat around a big mound of sand. Do you see a resemblance in the background?
Janine and I enjoyed visiting and taking pictures of our boys having fun in the sand!
The Boys had a lot of fun!
Elijah sitting on Moses' lap in a little chair by our campfire
Beach Campfire
Our last morning hair, and there!
Moses sleeping so soundly, but I had to wake him yup so we could pack up our stuff. The boys slept great by the way, considering it was really cold and a whole new sleeping experience.
It was a joy to experience camping with our boys and be together as a family.
5 comments:
Looks like loads of fun!!Why was it cold?I see you were wearing sweatshirts.The beach is so beautiful!
It looks like you had a lot of fun! We haven't ventured to take Maddox camping yet. We were going to this year, but it hasn't worked out yet. So, we'll see. I'm sorry to hear your food aversions have kicked in now:-( Isn't it the pits when nothing sounds good to eat?
I love camping, and it looks like your boys loved it. I know how it can be with a packed car, and we don't even have any kids yet!
I don't know why it took my so long to check out your blog! We just went camping too and it was a lot of fun. I haven't seen pictures of your kids yet and they are adorable (I also haven't seen Daniel in forever, so it was good to see him and his little one too...great pictures!...does he have a blog somewhere). Moses has your eyes and Ryan's mouth :-) A perfect combo of the two of you...both of mine look more like Aaron, I think... when our second was born, he said, "well, looks like we'll have to have another one. This one doesn't look like you either." haha
Say hi to Ryan for me!
Where is this beach?
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