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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Camping with Archie

We tried camping for the first time with Archie!! Mike has taken the kids camping a time or two since Archie was born, but he and I have always chose to stay at home. This year was the year, Archie is ready, but are we?!?!?!?

We outgrew our little camper. so we packed up the tent, loaded the truck and headed to Idaho City!

We picked a favorite spot of ours near a little creek. It kept the kids busy playing with rocks and buckets, and Mom busy watching Archie teeter on the brink of falling in.




The challenge was keeping the kids busy enough to occupy Archie's energy level.  So, we brought snaps for the kids to play with...

(nice double-snap-stomp move Lucy)

...and plenty of snacks ....


...a dump truck for mud, rock, dirt and water fun...

...big toys for the big kids, and what's more fun than a tent to play in?

Once it got dark, we had glow sticks and head lamps to play with.


The next day we went for a little nature walk and the kids found this log. They insited I take a picture of them posing on it :)

It was only a one night camping trip, but it was ENOUGH!!  Archie didn't take any nap, and stayed up until 11:00!!! and, of course, we were all up with the sun in the morning, so the car ride home looked like this:
Camping is exhausting, dirty, a lot of work, uncomfortable....so why do we do it? Look at these faces.....it is so worth it. :)



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