Camping in the Dirt??? Sign Us Up!!!

Our tent.



Daddy and Drew are ready for nature.



Cave Falls was beautiful!!



Where there is nature, there are critters...





...And Kendal and Avery had a great time enjoying all nature could provide. Can your mom say
hand sanitizer? I am pretty sure she can!!



When it rains up there, it pours!! To keep the rain puddles out of camp, some men (I would interject "boys") dug a trench to a nearby gopher hole. The rain just kept pouring into it. It never did fill completely.



The Brasier, Haws, and Leonard Families know how to make a tarp into some kind of beautiful blue outdoor veranda. We were all very impressed!!


We were invited by some good friends to Porcupine Creek for Memorial Day Weekend to go camping. When they said camping, they meant CAMPING. No hook-ups, no cell phone reception, no hair dryer outlets...WE WERE ROUGHING IT!! Okay, not really, unless you count turning the heater in the trailer down to 65 degrees because we are CAMPING and wanted to really feel like it.

We had so much fun, and judging by the layers of dirt on our children that we had to chisel off every night before they went to bed, they had a good time, too. Ya know, camping isn't always happy. It isn't always dry. It isn't always pretty. It isn't always peaceful. There may be bears (whether the natural wild variety or just my children), but we spend good times together. Hopefully these times will be good memories. I want my kids to be able to say they have gone camping since before they can remember. That's how I grew up, and I still remember things from when I was very small. Kendal pulled in his first fish. Avery loved the tire swing. Drew was happy on the four-wheeler. Tari loved learning about serious dutch oven cooking. Cameron found a lonely fishing pole down in some green on the bank of the creek... We all have our memories to keep... and to share.

Thanks, Brasiers and Haws and Leonards. It was great roughing it with ya!!!