Camping!

We had planned to go camping on Thursday and Friday night with out friends but the weather was not cooperating. We canceled our Friday night reservation and decided we would take our luck on Thursday night and we are so glad we did. The weather ended up being just perfect. We drove down to Lake Bastrop on Thursday afternoon and we walked over to the beach part of the lake. We played on the beach and the kids swam a little and we had fun just hanging out with friends. 

Then we went back to our campsites that were beautiful, and set up our tents and started working on dinner. I got a new, BIG tent for this trip and it worked out perfect. It was so big. Perfect for a queen size air mattress, a pack n play, two sleeping bags, and a dog bed. Oh yes nobody loves camping like Josie loves camping. 

I got a dutch oven for the trip and it was so fun. I made a pizza for dinner and then a peach cobbler for dessert. I was pretty proud of us for using the coals and cooking. 

The kids all had hot dogs and veggies. Oh Carson just ate 5 hot dogs. That's right 5. Geez! After dinner we did s'mores and the kids all played with their flashlights. 

Well we let the kids pick out new flash lights. Camilla chose, drum roll please... a princess flash light and Carson really wanted a head lamp. I kind of discouraged it but Aaron was like its fine. Well the head lamp was a total hit. All the Baldwin kids had headlamps too and all the kids wanted a turn with them.  

He even wore it the next day on our hike! 

After a yummy egg and bacon breakfast we head out on a hike around the lake. It was a lovely morning and we had a great time. After we got back and it was time to get everything packed up Carson wanted to try riding Simon's bike. Suddenly there was our boy riding a bike without training wheels! 

And just a shout out to my perfect baby girl who was SO good on this trip. Just went right to bed in her pack n play, crawled around in the dirt the whole time and happily rode in the ergo baby while we hiked. She is such a good baby! 

On the way home we all stopped at a restaurant that a couple in our ward just opened and it was delicious and fun. 

This camping trip was SO fun! Not sure if we can ever go camping without friends again. Camping is also a lot of work. After about 4 loads of laundry, a running dish washer, baths and showers for everyone (including Josie) and a vacuumed and washed car I felt like we were back to normal. :) Ready to do it again soon!