First family camping trip

We went on our first family camping trip.  Kevin had taken Isaac and Logan on a couple of Father and Sons campouts, but Haley had never been camping and I haven't been camping since we lived in Texas 8 years ago.  We went close to Strawberry Bay which meant if everything went wrong I could get in the car and go home.  On the way up we hit a big Thunder storm.  When we left the house it was in the 90s, on the drive their it dropped to 55 and I was cursing Kevin for convincing me to go.  By the time we made it to the camp spot the weather was perfect.  It was nice, cool and dry.

 When I was packing Friday morning I gathered hats for everybody, and Derek wanted to know where his hat was. He kept saying "me hat".  I gave him his hat and he wore it all day long.  He kept following me around the house saying, "me ready".  He has been giving me problems about naps lately, so when he threw a fit I asked him if he wanted to go camping he said yes and I said you have to take a nap first and down he went with no problems.

 Aaron was in town for the weekend and came camping with us.

 Not the prettiest camping spot, but it was right next to the marina where we were renting a pontoon boat the next day.


 Kevin played around with the idea of just grabbing dinner on the way up, but you can't go camping and not cook hot dogs over the fire.

 Tyler was there too.

 And of course you have to have smores.

We stayed up telling ghost stories, and each kid had to tell one.  Derek even had to tell one he told a story about a hot dog that was yummy!  Isaac's was about a kid t-rex, Haley's was about Dr. Frankenstien switching peoples minds, and Logan's was about 2 parents getting lost and captured by a ghost and the 2 kids had to save them.  Aaron told one about a one eyed trout and during the middle of it Kevin made Haley jump and scream very loud.  Aaron was laughing and couldn't finish his story.