Labor Day weekend we went camping. No-not camping in a cabin..tent camping. Yes, I know most of my girlfriends out there think it is crazy, but I love it-just for a couple days. One of my good friends who is an experienced camper out here told us about this really nice place called Canyon Point that we headed to. It was a great campsite. It actually had bathrooms and showers! OK-so the ones by our campsite were pretty sketchy, but they did have ones up front that were flushable :). 
The kids had the best time exploring, shooting the BB gun, roasting marshmallows, swinging in the hammock, playing cards and seriously the part they loved best was trying to start a fire..."trying"being the key word. We did get a fire started, but it rained so a everything was wet which made it quite the challenge. Greg's patience was definitely tested! I have always been anti gun...but I am sorry when you have boys..no matter what you do to prevent it a stick, a block a tree branch the vacuum attachments, paper...honestly anything will take the shape of a gun in a little boys mind and they will be shooting at things. I am not kidding-even if they never have seen a gun before-when they are little-it is like a little boy instinct to want to shoot something!! I wouldn't have ever believed that until the first time Joshua did that when we was less than 2. Anyways, G wanted to get a BB gun for our camping trip. I was pretty against it, but I finally gave in...and I have to admit I am really glad. We had the best time with it. Of course we had all kinds of rules, but it was seriously fun. I loved shooting it and didn't want to give it up! Bella is almost 10 months. She did great camping...however I do think we need to have our trainer back, since I spent about 5 minutes sprinting after her through the forest when she took off! She is honestly a great dog and is fantastic with the kids...but "come" is not one of her strong points. We need some work on that. The first night we were there it stormed pretty hard..well lightning and thunder, so at about 3 in the morning we moved into the car. Sooo not fun, but I would have rather been there than under a tree. At the end of the trip we were all pretty tired...including Joshua. I took video of him in the car on the way home. Poor little guy.
The kids had the best time exploring, shooting the BB gun, roasting marshmallows, swinging in the hammock, playing cards and seriously the part they loved best was trying to start a fire..."trying"being the key word. We did get a fire started, but it rained so a everything was wet which made it quite the challenge. Greg's patience was definitely tested! I have always been anti gun...but I am sorry when you have boys..no matter what you do to prevent it a stick, a block a tree branch the vacuum attachments, paper...honestly anything will take the shape of a gun in a little boys mind and they will be shooting at things. I am not kidding-even if they never have seen a gun before-when they are little-it is like a little boy instinct to want to shoot something!! I wouldn't have ever believed that until the first time Joshua did that when we was less than 2. Anyways, G wanted to get a BB gun for our camping trip. I was pretty against it, but I finally gave in...and I have to admit I am really glad. We had the best time with it. Of course we had all kinds of rules, but it was seriously fun. I loved shooting it and didn't want to give it up! Bella is almost 10 months. She did great camping...however I do think we need to have our trainer back, since I spent about 5 minutes sprinting after her through the forest when she took off! She is honestly a great dog and is fantastic with the kids...but "come" is not one of her strong points. We need some work on that. The first night we were there it stormed pretty hard..well lightning and thunder, so at about 3 in the morning we moved into the car. Sooo not fun, but I would have rather been there than under a tree. At the end of the trip we were all pretty tired...including Joshua. I took video of him in the car on the way home. Poor little guy. 
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I think you went to the same camp ground we went to..but you being much braver in a tent. :) We borrowed a friend's trailer! We had the same trouble with fires...it rained every day we were there so the wood was just SO wet!
glad you had fun. :)
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