Camping - Take Two

We spent this last weekend doing our new family-favorite activity - camping out. We bought our own tent after the last camping trip, so we were stylin'. We decided to camp at the same campground as Mark's extended family, which was a lot of fun. Everyone played with Abby and Ethan a lot, and fed us great breakfasts. We sure were lucky! The nights were pretty cold this time around, but other than that we had a good time. We're gearing up for next year - hopefully we'll be able to camp quite a bit!

3 Favorite Things about this camping trip
Mark: Delicious "apple strudel" cooked in pie irons; Playing pyromaniac with our campfire; Setting up our new ultra-cool tent.
Trista: Coffee from Uncle Jim on Sunday and Aunt Marianne on Monday (I needed caffeine); Beating Mark 3 times at Ladder Golf; No schedules, nothing important to do but RELAX.
Abby: Uncle Jim and Aunt Mary's dog, Sadie; Cooking hot dogs over the fire; Catching beatle bugs and caterpillars in her bug box.
Ethan: Halloween candy (the campground had labor day trick-or-treating); Hitting up all the aunts, uncles and cousins for food (mmm... chocolate donuts...); Waving to everyone while on the hayride through the campground.

Cooking hotdogs with Mark's improvised hotdog-fork-rest (a stack of firewood).

Abby was (of course) a princess for trick-or-treating.

Ethan was dressed as a ghost. Here he has charmed a grape sucker out of Aunt Sue, just one of many treats he charmed out of Aunt Sue.

Uncle Jim was reading a story to his granddaughter, Shyann. Ethan climbed up in his lap to listen too.

Abby loved sifting rocks and acorns out of the sand. This girl is a nature-lover, that's for sure!

Ethan is saying, "I love campin', Mom!"

Our dusty-kneed daughter couldn't stay awake for the 25 minute drive home after such a great weekend.