1st Camping Trip of the Year!

Chris just had his first weekend off in about a year. An actual weekend. In one word, it was heavenly. It's amazing having him home and having two days in a row off from work.

To start off our weekend we decided to go camping Friday night. We rented a "camper's cabin" right off the White River. It was basically 4 walls and a couple of beds but it did have a space heater. That was the reason we decided to spring for a cabin, the low was 35 degrees- TOO COLD for the kiddos.

The cabin was perfect for our stay. We got to our cabin and unpacked and then started dinner.

Bailey had so much fun shoveling rocks into her little pail. She was totally and completely content doing this for about an hour.

Here's Tanner grillin' his and B's dinner. Chris' favorite part about camping is getting to cook in his dutch oven and cast-iron skillet. He planned our entire menu and made us lots of yummy food. Unfortunately, my kids are weirdos, and they preferred hot dogs over steak and potatoes..

I love this picture. He was concentrating so hard. Look at his little tounge sticking out..

Yummy hotdogs-Bailey loves hot dogs now.

eating their snacks

Bailey's pile of half eaten cheetos- what is with this girl?

Roasting marshmallows

Me and my crazy kids

love this crazy boy

And then we busted out the beloved glowsticks- no camping trip is complete without them.

Oh the delicious campfire cones....so good!

Then we put the kids down, but after they played for two hours in their beds, we decided to let them get back up. Here is all of us around the campfire. Yes- Bailey was up two hours past bedtime and not trilled about it. LOVE her cranky expression

I LOVE my little family.

Our view from our cabin the next morning. Right off the river- SO beautiful!

A pic of us in front of our little cabin before we left on Saturday.

 

Then we went and played on the playground to let the kids run off some energy. Tanner loved the climbing wall. he was super good at it too!

Oh so precious! Love these sweet siblings

Oh and Bailey fell in love with this horse swing.

White Buffalo Resort "post card" picture.

Kiddos with Daddy. They loved having him with us soo much!

Then we headed down to the river to go fishing. This was about how Bailey fished....

Obviously she is a natural. Then she decided that splashing in the water was more fun. I don't know how she handled this because the water was so cold!!! But she LOVED it

 

Tanner was much better at fishing. He was adorably attentive and really wanted to catch one!

I love this picture. He was concentrating so hard that he didn't want to give me a smile, but finally got a cute little smile from the stinker.

Here's Tanner baiting his hook. He was so careful. I think him and his daddy will have lots of fishing trips in the future.

After I got Bailey out of the river she spent the rest of her time playing in the rocks.

 

So after we finished fishing we decided to head home. We spent the rest of the day unpacking and napping. Oh and doing laundry. (Why do all the fun activities in life require so much laundry afterwards. UGH)

 

The next day we got to have Daddy at church with us and it was wonderful!!!!

It was an awesome weekend and I'm hoping he gets another one really soon.