Sophia’s first camping trip
On Father’s Day weekend we went on Sophia’s first camping trip with 3 other couples and their families from our small group Bible study. We only travelled an hour west of Jackson to Fort Custer State Park in the Battle Creek area, so it wasn’t too far away. It would be what Ade and I call “cushy drive-in camping”. The weather ranged from a severe thunderstorm Friday night (Sophia slept through the entire thing), to hot and humid to beautiful and breezy down by Eagle lake. All in all, it was a nice weekend except for the mosquito invasion that we encountered. We found that the mosquitos weren’t bad down by the lake with the breeze, so we spent a lot of our time down there chatting, playing in the sand and swimming in the water. We all were in charge of preparing a meal and we enjoyed s’mores around the fire on Saturday night. Sophia did wonderfully and slept really well in between us in the tent (nice and cozy!) in her Snuggle Nest on top of our sleeping bags. We can’t wait to take her on her next camping vacation…hopefully near one of the Great Lakes or up to the U.P.
- My friend Emma Hasey and I before leaving for camping (while dads and brothers watched the World Cup match)
- Sophia and Emma are beach blanket buddies
- Mike and Corey watching the babies
- The Beyer’s tent
- Mady and Nate playing around the campsite
- Lydia waiting to play
- Jason and his two youngest girls after waking up
- Our “comfy camping” tent
- Mike takes a turn holding Miss Sophia
- A caterpillar crawling around on one of the tents…
- Ade making the morning brew
- Jason trying to figure out the crazy squirt gun
- The lovely Sophia and daddy playing Euchre (with Mike helping Ade with his hand of cards)
- Abby and a long root she unearthed while digging in the dirt
- Wildflowers
- Wildflowers
- Our Gary Fisher’s ready for action…the mountain biking trails at the park are well known in the area
- Abby digging in the dirt
- Daddy and me getting ready for a “swirl”
- I’ve got my sun hat on and am ready for some fun…
- Daddy swirling my legs in the lake…I like the bath tub better…
- Rebecca and Emma taking a dip
- Carrie and Mady playing in the sand
- Linda and Lydia making sand castles
- Mommy and me going back up to the shade and blanket for a feeding and nap
- Napping…
- Mommy and Daddy and I
- All covered up from the mosquitos for a before bedtime feeding by the campfire
- The Hasey boys enjoying their s’mores by the campfire
- Sleeping after a long day by the lake
All the pics are beautiful! xo’s