River Camping—Take 2

We had such a wonderful time camping on the St. Croix river with the Nelson’s that we decided to take our little family back the very next weekend.  The weather was wonderful and both kids had a blast.  We stayed two nights.  We swam, built castles, ate sand (Tommy), boated to Stillwater for lunch, grilled, made s’mores, and Maggie colored a lot!  We picked Grandma and Grandpa up in the boat on Saturday and they came and hung out at our site and swam with us.  This was a real treat for Maggie.  She was super excited to show Grandma and Grandpa her camping spot.  Tommy had a minor/major meltdown on Sunday morning as we were packing up so that made things a little tricky with just the two of us (taking down the tent, loading the boat, etc. is not fun with one person) but we survived—I think it is the only thing that made us not want to go for a 3^rd weekend in a row… :)

Big boat, little boat

Maggie waving to the big boat

Our campsite

 

She is very proud of her duck-lips trick.  I think it was the first thing she showed to Grandma and Grandpa

Roasting marshmallows

Eating her S'more

Tommy's bite

Her art desk for the weekend--lots of coloring happened here

Cutie Pies!

Love Tommy's bedhead

Both kids napped and slept exceptionally well

In fact, Tommy and I slept until 8:00 one day and 9:15 the other day!  That doesn't even happen at home.

The boat puts both kids to sleep instantly

Grandma and Tommy

These two did a lot of bonding on the trip

S'mores round #2

Remember that thing I said about Tommy hating his life jacket?  We pray for him to fall asleep on the boat otherwise it is wonderful tantrum the whole ride.   He obviously opted for tantrum here.