One With Nature

We finally made it out camping this last weekend - our first time since before Megan was born. After our last couple of experiences camping with babies, I vowed never to do that again, so now that Megan isn't so little, we decided to give it a go. Success!!

This time the camping was with John's family for our Rimington family reunion.

Here's some of the phase one originals - left to right: Mike, Justin, Mom, Dad, Keith, John. We're missing Marian (who lives in New York), and Kevin and Tammy who are both on missions in California.

We had a grand ole time.

We did some singing -

We did some hanging out with cousins -

We even did some game playing -

Kubb is the name of the game we're playing here - basically a stand-up version of chess.

We did some hiking -

And sadly, the camping trip ended with this cute little gal puking up her socks -

Here she is sleeping between rounds of puking. We used the time to quickly pack up our camping gear so we could head home a day earlier than originally planned, which ended up being a very wise decision since Natalie joined the fun a few hours later with Kimberly and I getting sick the next morning.

Other than the sudden end to the camping trip, it was a lovely time. We even celebrated dad's birthday with a dutch-oven peach cobbler.

And a few of us adults got to stay up after the kids had gone to bed and enjoyed a kid-less visiting session, something we rarely get to do these days.

We just might have to head back out again before summer ends.