Camping at Milford Lake

Over the labor day weekend we went on our first family camping trip. Jessalyn and Roman were pretty excited about on our way there. Can't you tell?

Jessalyn was going to help daddy set up the tent but she decided to sit back and relax in her princess chair while sipping on a capri sun. She did a great job supervising.

That night we sat around the camp fire and ate dinner. She was stuffing her face with mac and cheese. Her favorite. Then of course what's a campfire without smores. I prefer my marshmallows nice and burnt. Yum!

The next morning we started out with some breakfast. Eggs, bacon and some yummy muffins. 

Then the girls just relaxed while all the boys went on a little fishing trip. Logan caught a catfish and was pretty excited about it until he realized he wasn't going to be able to keep it as a pet. 

 Jess and RoRo loved all the time they got to spend together. It was fun listening in on their conversations. It sounds like they totally understand each other. 

 We were so lucky to have the playground right next to our campsite. That's really how close it was from our tents.Jess and Roman spent a lot of time over there while we all just sat and watched. 

She was such a big girl swinging on the big swing all by herself. She even went down the slide all herself without any of my help. She thought she was pretty awesome.

 The older boys took the pups for a walk. They were switching dogs right here because Penny was a little too strong for Caleb. She tends to take you for a walk instead.

 The next morning Jess woke up asking for RoRo. When we opened the tent window we got a view of these crazy boys. I'm not quite sure what Caleb is doing but it looks pretty hilarious! haha!

 Then we got ready to go out on the lake to do some fishing. At first she was scared of her life jacket until we asked Roman if he wanted to go. As soon as she saw him putting his jacket on she put hers on with out a fight. 

 Don't they look cute in their tiny little life jackets!

 She helped Daddy row the boat. 

 While Roman fed the fishes all of his Angry Birds cookies. He thought they were hungry and needed a snack apparently. 

 Daddy caught a fish. Jess was pretty excited to see the "fishy". He let it go back in the water in hopes of finding a bigger fish. But  the attention span of a two year old and three year old isn't very long so they were over it fast.

We cut our trip a little short because it was too hot and everyone was exhausted. We did find a delicious Hawaiian Ice place and got some on our way out. All the kids slept the whole way back home.

Can't you tell they had way too much fun!