A Family Camping Trip

We decided Memorial Day weekend was a good time to introduce our Little Miss to a long-time family tradition....camping. Well, it's a long-time tradition in Hubby's family, and now ours. I am not what you would call a seasoned camper. I come from city-folk and only camped for the first time after I was married (and only once since, although I do enjoy it). Fortunately, Hubby comes from a long line of campers and is himself somewhat of an outdoorsman.

His family owns some river-front property a couple hours away that they've converted into a private campsite. (I told you they were campers!) It seemed like the perfect place to initiate our Little Miss to the world of camping. Little Man and I were feeling a little under the weather, so while we joined in the daytime activities we slept at Grandma and Grandpa's a couple miles away.

I was curious how my princess-in-training (who sometimes doesn't like to play outside because of the bugs) would handle this initiation. We prepared for full-fledged camping...in a tent...overnight, but had a backup plan. To be honest, I fully expected to see Little Miss and Hubby on Grandma's fold-out couch the next morning, but I didn't! She slept all night in the tent and LOVED IT! Hubby said she was up at 5:45 ready to go fishing! I believe we have ourselves a little camper, folks!

Helping Daddy set up the tent.

Getting the fire going for dinner.

There's nothing like a campfire dinner...yummmm!

Little Miss's first s'more!

Fishin' with Daddy

Her first catch

Little Man in the boat

Grandma and Grandpa even joined us for a hot dog roast for lunch!

Thanks Aunt Joanie for letting us use the campsite, and thanks to Uncle Andy for all his hard work fixing it up!