One of the down-sides to my crazy month of work was that the kids went on our summer vacation without us. Everything had been so up in the air for months and with my ever-changing schedule it was hard to determine if Josh & I would make it down or not. We debating him going ahead without me, but ultimately decided that he and I would do the same thing in the hopes we could travel together later in the summer. My parents decided to take the kids with them their entire two weeks, so our house was pretty quiet. Josh decided to go down the last weekend they were there and see the girls, eat some seafood and help them pack up and bring the RV home for the rest of the summer. At the last minute, I found myself with 48 hours at home alone and decided to make the long drive to surprise them ...
camping
a family tradition
I think this is my earliest childhood memory of camping with my family. My grandparents had a Winnebago and they took us to Gulf Shores for a week every summer. It's was "grand kids week" and my parents would usually come down at the end of the week and we would move into the tent with them for a second week. I LOVE thinking about the fact that my parents do the very same thing with our girls. The Winne was so cool. My grandparents had two twin beds in their "room" and the dinette folded out for a double bed at the other end (seen below). The coolest part, to me, was that there were cabinets above both beds that folded down into a bunk. I loved sleeping up there, even though there was only about 18 inches between the mattress and the ceiling. And even though we know of at least two times ...
Another Beach Post
Remember back in June when I blogged about our disastrous Father's Day experience? It seems that is as far as I ever got with the vacay recap, so here is a quick tour through our annual camping trip. There was a lot of DVD watching and iPod playing, plenty of beach sitting and ray catching, a few serious faces thrown around, lots of smiling and laughing, some white powdered donut breakfast-ing, some beach sleeping and ice cream cone eating, sunset watching and cousin talking. There was even some dancing and tank top wearing by these two, and lots of goofing off by these two. There was splash pad playing, and picture posing, daddy burying, and even some mommy burying, couple cheesing, and family loving. ...
Happy Campers
In case you're new around here, you might not know what our summer vacations look like. I wrote a little bit about why we camp the summer after Sophie was born and again the year after that and you can read about last year's adventures here and here. I've never not camped at the beach during the month of June with the exception of the summer before SK was born. That is 34 summers in Gulf State Park. I am so lucky that when Josh was introduced to this road trip almost seventeen years ago, he didn't run screaming. 30 people, 7 travel trailers and one beautiful beach makes for quite a memorable vacation. We owned a small trailer after we got married, but we sold it after I got pregnant with SK. It wasn't large enough for a family of four, so we've been renting the last several summers. Our ...