Camping was a success. We had a great weekend, and if I weren't so tired, I'd put together a nice post, with the best of the best pictures. Instead you get one of those posts with a few pics from Kasey's camera and random commentary about our weekend below. Enjoy.
The kids went fishing early saturday morning and came back with a rainbow trout. They caught another one (with Aaron's "help", of course) that afternoon. Aaron and jimmie filleted them and fried them up with dinner. 
I bought tiny camping chairs for the girls. They loved them and packed them around all over our campsite.
Yeah that's me lookin' SUPA-schweaty. I kicked that campsite's butt on an early morning run. 5.9 miles baby! If only I'd known I was so close to a 10K, I would have kicked it up a notch and done another quarter mile. Still, the Run for a Child 10K is 3 weeks away, and I am SO ready. I just hope my time won't suffer from all the crazy steep hills on the race course-they are insane!
I can honestly say that the ONLY good thing that came from Aaron's brief carreer as a US Border Patrol Agent was that cool T-Shirt he is wearing. Oh, and the sporty backpack that now houses Reese and Quincy's 72 hour kits.
I am officially the worst mother in the world. Yep. My sweet little baby has a blistering sunburn. I kept him in the shade of a HUGE tree ALL day long, so he really shouldn't have been burned...but unfortunately, we all took naps in the shade. During that time when we were in sleepyland, the sky became overcast and the sun moved. We were totally unaware that we were no longer in the shadow cast of the tree and basically cooked our baby.
The Cheeto is now rockin' the title of "Baked Cheeto" and sometimes, "Flamin' Hot Cheeto". Hopefully, all that aloe I've been sliming his cheeks with will help cool the burns enough for him to just be Cheeto again. Or more like "Cheeto Puff" these days.
My first attempt at Dutch Oven cooking. I thought I'd be cool and put the whole mess of coals on the lid to help my peach cobbler cook more thoroughly.
Nope. Less is definitely more. Peach Cobbler had a full layer of BLACK (burned sugar and butter) on the top. The stuff underneath was still pretty tasty, though. Lesson learned.
The kids went fishing early saturday morning and came back with a rainbow trout. They caught another one (with Aaron's "help", of course) that afternoon. Aaron and jimmie filleted them and fried them up with dinner. 
I bought tiny camping chairs for the girls. They loved them and packed them around all over our campsite.
Yeah that's me lookin' SUPA-schweaty. I kicked that campsite's butt on an early morning run. 5.9 miles baby! If only I'd known I was so close to a 10K, I would have kicked it up a notch and done another quarter mile. Still, the Run for a Child 10K is 3 weeks away, and I am SO ready. I just hope my time won't suffer from all the crazy steep hills on the race course-they are insane!
I can honestly say that the ONLY good thing that came from Aaron's brief carreer as a US Border Patrol Agent was that cool T-Shirt he is wearing. Oh, and the sporty backpack that now houses Reese and Quincy's 72 hour kits.I am officially the worst mother in the world. Yep. My sweet little baby has a blistering sunburn. I kept him in the shade of a HUGE tree ALL day long, so he really shouldn't have been burned...but unfortunately, we all took naps in the shade. During that time when we were in sleepyland, the sky became overcast and the sun moved. We were totally unaware that we were no longer in the shadow cast of the tree and basically cooked our baby. The Cheeto is now rockin' the title of "Baked Cheeto" and sometimes, "Flamin' Hot Cheeto". Hopefully, all that aloe I've been sliming his cheeks with will help cool the burns enough for him to just be Cheeto again. Or more like "Cheeto Puff" these days.
My first attempt at Dutch Oven cooking. I thought I'd be cool and put the whole mess of coals on the lid to help my peach cobbler cook more thoroughly.Nope. Less is definitely more. Peach Cobbler had a full layer of BLACK (burned sugar and butter) on the top. The stuff underneath was still pretty tasty, though. Lesson learned.
I asked Reese what her favorite part about the weekend was and she answered, "When I scared Jimmie with the fake snake and he was like, 'ooooh! I'm so scared!' and it was really really funny. And I liked sleeping in the tent with you and Daddy and Quincy and all being together in the same bed and I had my own flashlight and Daddy let me eat junk foods the whole time."
Good food. Happy kids. Decent sleep. MORE good food. Good run. Good campsite. Good fishing. Good friends.
Good memories!
I will camp again for sure.
Great weekend!
Good food. Happy kids. Decent sleep. MORE good food. Good run. Good campsite. Good fishing. Good friends.
Good memories!
I will camp again for sure.
Great weekend!
7 comments:
And the fact that the kids slept solidly through the night was pretty awesome, too!
I think I may need to devote an entire post to my "sleep yelling" at poor Jimmie.
We didn't even get around to making s'mores and JiffyPop. We'll have to do another campfire soon...
lol. my first thought when i saw that dutch oven picture: holy crap that's a lot of coals.
then i read the post and yes, less is totally more.
i hate it when my babies burn. ava will burn literally every time we go to the beach even with layers and layers of sunscreen. the burn goes away, but guilt never does.
You have GRASS where you camp???? JEALOUS! I only have rocks and roots and gritty dirt. Which is why I invested in a $100 sleep pad from REI this year - - I used it all 3 times and now I can actually sleep while camping!!! What a novel idea!
Glad it was a success. And Jiffy Pop while camping is da bomb! As is cobbler, I haven't cooked in a dutch oven myself, looks a little tricky....but I have foil dinners down to a science! Booyah!
Nice! Sounds like a fun time, and I'm so glad your kids slept for you. :) And you look GREAT! Especially after running 6 miles, and I'm sure in humidity.
looks like a whole lot of fun!
poor Corbin...ouch!
MUGS! Love the post title. Oh my funny dad and his made up songs. Oddly enough Jesse and I were also camping all of last week in Oregon to celebrate our one year anniversary. We went to Crater Lake, the Rogue River, Gold Beach, and Harris Beach. It was fabulous. And YOU are fabulous! I am so proud of you that you went "REAL" camping. Love you tons babe!
p.s. My favorite Grover camping meal is in a dutch oven: roast, carrots and potatoes. The key is as you said--less is more. You want the coals to get piping hot before using them, then spread out your coals in a single layer on the bottom and only about 10-12 on the top side, then rotating the coals. You can actually figure out a rough estimate of your temperature by the number of coals you have with your oven. I would have to ask my dad for his exact calculations but when I did my dutch oven camping cooking the roast and veggies turned out even better than at home. I LOVE dutch ovens!
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