Back on October 7-9, we went camping at Lake Bob Sandlin State Park in East Texas. We went with the Swindles (Jen, Travis, and Berkley), and the Edsons (Jane, Andrew, and Noelle) met us there on Saturday. The weather was perfect- got up to the 80s during the day and around 60 at night! There was a nice cool breeze blowing all weekend. We stayed at a tent site right by the the lake...actually the lake was only 67% full, so we stayed right by the "beach".
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| Brieleigh on the beach |
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| Berkley and Brieleigh playing in between the usually covered tree stumps. |
Our site had alot of room for the girls to run around, and I think they loved every minute of camping. Brieleigh, I know, loved having a little person her age their to play with. We had not been camping since the Spring because of our sauna of a summer, so it was so nice to sleep in the woods again. Brieleigh is getting to be quite the little camper. She woke up one morning and the first thing she said was, "Trees! Pineapples!" (i.e. pine cones) It was nice to see some pine trees on the trip- not quite the height of Mississippi trees, but I forget that Brieleigh is not used to them.
One of my favorite parts of camping is cooking on the fire. We were under a burn ban, so we used camp stoves which was almost as fun. Breakfast is always my favorite camping meal! We had grits, eggs, sausage, bagels, and chocolate milk the first morning, and pancakes, bacon, fried apples, and juice Sunday morning. I always feel like we eat such fun food camping since we allow ourselves to buy some food which we usually just buy on sale or for special occasions.
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| Travis and David flipping sausage. |
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| Travis, David, and Andrew flipping bacon and pancakes on Sunday morning. |
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| Jen was always so sweet to distract the girls while we cooked. |
We went for a few short hikes, played on the play ground, took naps, sat in our camp chairs and talked, and cooked/washed dishes. It was so relaxing and refreshing! We also had some tourist racoons try to come eat our dessert with us one night, but we made sure they remembered not to revisit our site.
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| Brieleigh and Berkley sitting in the leaves. |
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| Backpacks with kids on and ready for our hike! |
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| Girl talk. Of course this was a few seconds event. They don't sit still long! Their favorite activity was playing in our tent on the air matress. :) |
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| The Willers family on the dock over the lake. |
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| The whole camping crew! So fun to camp with friends! |
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