Camping Trip

Recently we started building up our camping equipment and we used a gift card we had to buy a nice big 3-room tent. Merrick had a half day off of work on the Friday before Labor Day and so we decided to try our first real camping experience with the girls at Menomonee Park, which is only about 10 minutes away from our house.

We had a great time! The kids slept great through the night. Lily woke up early but that was fine. We took the kids on a hike in the morning and ended up at the lake.

It was a gorgeous day and there were beautiful wildflowers everywhere so Avery made up a couple of bouquets.

The beach was closed for the season so we couldn’t swim but there was a playground there we hung out at for a while. Lily unfortunately tripped and hit her face on this slide.

Poor girl, got a big bruise on the side of her face.

We ended up going home at about 1pm but leaving our tent up. We had a BBQ to go to Saturday evening but afterwards we went home, got our PJs on, and went back to our campsite. We roasted marshmallows for S’mores and put the kids to bed. Merrick and I always seem to play Cribbage when we camp so we did that. Sunday morning we made pancakes on the fire, packed up and went home to get showered for church.

It was a great first camping trip! We’ll definitely be doing it again sometime soon!