Camping!

Our campsite. Lydia & Caleb in one tent, Gloria & I in the other-a marriage counselor probably won't be impressed but we needed sleep! The creek was on the other side of the green.
One of the four dams in the creek built in the 30s by the (socialist) CCC. Caleb and I joked that after he got off his socialist job, checked the socialist weather reporting, we drove down the socialist road to the socialist park and complained the whole time that we wanted the government to get out of our lives.

Gloria loved touching the fish Caleb caught.

The last time I went camping was when I was 8 months pregnant with Lydia. She has been camping once with her dad & grandpa. Caleb took the half day off Friday and we were off to Lockhart state park (McKinney Falls was FULL!). It only has 20 camping spots and is rather small but still just 40 minutes from home.

We had a wonderful time. Down sides-poison ivy, lack of sleep, redneck invasion, burn ban and billions of burs in my pants.

Upsides-tons of family fun, seeing huge snakes, a turkey, a hawk with a mouse in her mouth, walking along a creek, catching a frog, hearing a waterfall, climbing and looking at an overlook, Caleb catching some fish, hearing the girls giggling in their separate tents, time for Caleb and me just to talk after they finally fell asleep, watching fireflies, eating lots of great food, enjoying a new twist on S'mores (let chocolate covered cookies melt in the car then top with marshmallows-see pic above to see if Gloria enjoyed them), splashing in the pond with our water shoes and finally hearing Lydia say that camping is awesome. Gloria also enjoyed showering in the bathroom and didn't want to get out.