Andrew's First Camping Adventure

Camping in October. Yep that's right! It's perfect weather here in Texas....camping weather. Stephen and I have been itching to go for a very,very long time. This summer it was too incredibly hot and no mountains down here to escape the heat. So we had to be a bit patient and wait for it to cool off just a bit. One weekend in August, we found an awesome campsite and couldn't wait to go back.  It was beautiful right on the edge of Ray Roberts Lake and lots of trees made it seem like there were no other campers in sight. We felt like we were all by ourselves. Which is just what we love when we're enjoying the beautiful outdoors.  We were a little nervous camping with a toddler and it was a whole different adventure. But we loved it and I think Andrew loved it just as much.

 We had to hike all of our stuff about 1/2 mile into camp. It was a bit tricky with a little one, but we mangaed...note to self. It's hard to "Pack light" with kids.

Andrew eating a snack while daddy makes a fire

Mesmerized by the big fire

Of course, you can't go camping without roasting marshmallows and devouring a few smores.

Andrew's version of "Smores" The chocolate
was by far his favorite. Smart boy!

Wild cactus was growing everywhere by our tent.

Stephen thought he'd be daring and take a taste of the cactus fruit. I wasn't quite so daring.

Beautiful sunset view from our campsite

Andrew did awesome sleeping in tent. We were worried that he was getting cold in his pack n' play and so around 2:30 am we pulled him into our sleeping bags to sleep with us. Let's just say that he continued to sleep like a rockstar. Stephen and I on the other hand didn't get a wink. We finally gave up trying around 6:00 when the sun started to come up and Andrew woke bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to go for the day.

Reading books with Daddy in the tent before bedtime.

Stephen was so wonderful to get up and out of the warm sleeping bag to build the fire up for us. Little did I know that he had other plans too.  He snuck off with his fishing pole and went down to the lake to see if he could catch anything before all the boats were out for the day. He claims that big fish were jumping everywhere, but alas no bites.

Morning snuggles by the fire

Happy boy in the morning!

It was hard to keep a little one who scoots everywhere on his tummy clean and out of the dirt. We did our best.

Trying to escape

All in all we had a wonderful time. Came home smelling like campfire smoke and completely exhausted.Camping is the greatest....right?