Camping!

We have been camping with the Busches since before we had kids, but we keep the tradition going now. It was harder when we had babies crawling in the dirt, but we've reached the point where now it really is so much fun and keeps getting easier. They love having friends being built into the adventure, we love that we get real down time because they have friends to play with too. We take turns cooking for each other's families so we cook bigger meals but are not cooking all of them, it is such a great arrangement. Love this family and all the memories..Somehow I haven't blogged our camping the last few years.

I decided this year not to take my real camera, but just my point and shoot, well that promptly died on me, so these are all just phone photos, maybe not the best quality but left me with more freedom to just participate and less weight to carry or worry about leaving it in the tent or car. I still was able to capture some memories :)

Our wonderful long time friends, David and Susan enjoying the breakfast we made.

This was the year that we finally got smart and had the kids start doing dishes! They LOVED it, it was a highlight for them and meant one less chore for the grown-ups! So sad the photos of Arran and Mo were on the camera that died.

So much fun; dishes, bike riding, play doh, scavenger hunts, water balloons, hanging with friends, board and card games. They all did so great.

We love Spring Lake. It's a great camp site with all the amenities plus the man-made lagoon.

They were always able to find something to do.

Just proof that I was actually there.