Camping!

Over Memorial Day Weekend we attempted our first family camping trip. It was wonderful! We headed out with our friends Ben and Jen and their kids who are the same age as our kids. We went to Lums Pond State Park and set up camp. Paul and I have so many memories of camping with our families as children and we wanted to pass on these memories to our children. They both loved it so much.

We bought a huge new tent that is sort of deluxe. It has lights and shelves and you can even charge your phone in it. What we didn't know is that it has a doggie door and Sophie snuck out in the middle of the night!

Maeve spent a lot of time in our hiking backpack.  She just loves it in there!!!  And we broke out our bike trailer for the first time ever.  We got it right after Noah was born and we never used it!  This weekend it was used almost non stop -- everyone wanted a turn!!!

     

Erin's family did this trip last year and they let us know that they brought fishing rods.  We got Noah a children's rod and he really liked it.  We could see the fish in the water.  We also saw lots of snakes and turtles!!!

   

On Sunday it was so incredibly hot and we had the water hook up on our site.  We let Noah and Erin have a huge water fight and we even got the neighbors involved!

It was a little overwhelming for both kids at times... staying up late, all new experiences, but overall we did a great job. We're already looking into going another weekend!!!