We decided to give camping a try. This was a family first! In fact, it'd been almost 11 years since Aaron & I had been camping. To be honest, we don't really fancy ourselves outdoorsmen. We don't hunt or fish & don't aspire to. But, we decided to give camping a try!
The whole idea got started months ago while out to coffee with a few girlfriends. We thought it would be so fun to go camping together, as families. Let the kids play and be dirty and swim and love every second of it. What a fun & relatively cheap experience!
And guess what? It really was! We don't own anything hardly, so we were really thankful for my in laws who happened to have a ton of camping stuff & let us borrow it. We faked our way through the rest.
We made a ton of memories & had a ball!
I had a few marshmallow games planned for the kids. They LOVED them, which was awesome! Ya gotta love the classics like chubby bunnies. :)
I was having all of these fun memories - of kids camps & family camps from what feels like a million years ago. I love that we got to give our kids great memories of their own with family camping, etc!
They stayed up late, roasting marshmallows and playing spy games with flashlights. We even went on 2 hikes! The second of which was 5 miles and 6000 feet in elevation! We almost quit a few times, but we pushed through & we made it! That's saying something with a 4, 5 and 8 year old. :)
We all left thoroughly dirty and tired, but in such a great way! We made a lot of notes on what we'd do different next time & what worked well for us. So, I think that it will go even better the next time we venture out into the woods. :)
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