Camping

We went on our first camping trip as a family this last weekend. Mark and I have only been camping once together and the kids had never gone SO we really had no idea what we were in for. I will be the first to admit that I am a "don't get dirty" kinda mom. I try to relax about it but sometimes it just gets the best of me. I am happy to report that I let my children run wild! They were free to run and play in the dirt....I may or may not have told Brock to stop playing in the dirt once, but I think that is still progress:)

We went up to Stoneman lake with Mark's cousins Christin and Bert and their two boys. They brought up their trailer SO we didn't ruff it too much. We were able to use their bathroom and their kitchen, the kids even watched a movie on Monday while we packed up. On Sunday Kevin, Jolean, Brittany, and Andy came up for the day. It was so beautiful up there! It was so nice to get out of the heat and enjoy mother nature. We went up to Mormon lake for a few hours on Sunday. They had a petting zoo with tons of different animals. The rest of the time we just stayed at our campsite. The Anzini's brought up Marsh mellow Guns. If you don't know what these are you need to get some on Amazon.com. The kids had so much fun running around shooting each other with tiny marsh mellows. They would go on these little hikes around our campsite looking for bears to shoot:) For any of you that don't know, Mark is obsessed with these survival shows, I think he pretty much records every single one. Any chance he gets he attempts some of the "survival techniques" that his shows have taught him. He has tried to start fire with sticks twice now with no luck. LOL This trip he built himself a survival shelter hut. I have to give it to him because it turned out really good. The kids were so excited to help Mark build his fort, little did they know it was more for him than it was for them:) I think this was the start of many family camping trips to come!