Happy Campers

We took a huge chance this weekend and went camping with the kids 2.5 hours away from home. I'm talking about 2 fairly high maintenance boys who get scared at the slightest thing (one of whom is not potty trained yet wears underwear anyway) and a drama queen 3 year old who's favorite form of expressing herself when she doesn't get her way is to cry and scream.

And we had a blast! All three kids, individually, said over the weekend that they wanted to live there. The kids were fairly free to wander and explore around our campsite with the other kids that we camped with. It was tremendously successful, and we can't wait to do it again!

Here are some of the highlights and favorite pics from the trip:

a light saber battle

SurvivorMan Jack

Princess Claire Bear

Cade doing either an angry version of the Chicken Dance or flexing. We can't decide.

A sweet picture of Cade loving on his sister.

The extremely tall pine trees of East Texas

Daddy with Claire

Our friend Vivian starting a paddle boat journey with Claire, Jack and her son Marshall.

Cade riding with his friend Gage and Gage's Dad, Scott.

Claire, after her maiden voyage.

Sitting around the campfire