Family Time!

This is the face of a happy camper.  Literally.  Em LOVES camping.  Isn't she a cute granola girl.

We decided to take a last minute campout.  I felt we needed a little family time...away from phones and computers.  It was awesome to get some time away.

 Colin  LOVED the swings.  If we weren't watching him he was heading off to the swings whether we were on board or not...

 Oops these are a little out of order but we spent quite a bit of time on the dock, just fishing, reading and chatting!

More swings. These were incredible.  They were so HIGH!!!!

I love this picture of Liam fishing.  It's so him.  Focused and patient and just Liam... He's pretty amazing!

This is another of my favorite's this time as well.  Emery's expression is perfect.  She is so beautiful and full of life.  Even in her craziest moments, when she is driving me crazy, she can turn and flash me a smile and melt away all my frustrations.

Little fisherwoman.  She loves fishing with daddy!

 Isa LOVED the water.  In fact even though there was no swimming allowed, she found a way to "fall in"  Good thing she knows how to swim a bit.  Silly beautiful girl.

Yep, I was there.  I maxed and relaxed all day.

Funny story.  Our tent flap is broken , but still closed prior to this campout.  I had just closed it and asked Liam to open the tent flap and put something inside.  He did so, but chose to open the tent without using the zipper...he found a weak spot and pulled it open.  The consequence of this action was a permanently broken zipper...  No biggie, I had lots of clothes pins and so we were able to pin it closed.  We all decided we would be good for the night.  I guess we were the only ones who felt that way.  A very kind gentleman stopped me while we were making dinner and showed me a storm front moving in on his smart phone.  He told us to batten down our hatches and I laughed and told him we didn't have any more hatches to batten down.  It took only a moment for our tent to go from ghetto fabulous to ghetto pathetic in my eyes. 

 I informed the kids that we should probably go home  and that we would have to retire the tent.  This was their response...  Weeping...

 Wailing and gnashing of teeth!   They really are quite attatched to this tent...

 Morgan took the news in great stride.  We ate dinner, fished a little more, took down the tent and went on our merry slightly disappointed way...

This last photo should have been at the top.  Love the sister hood thing...

 So all in all our campout though it ended early was a success.  The time spent with family was perfect.  Just what the doctor ordered!  I LOVE camping!!!!