Parker's First Camping Trip

We got back yesterday from taking Parker on her first camping trip! She's four weeks old today so she may have been the youngest one at the campground (Mahoney State Park), but she did great and we had a great time. We camped with our good friends Jim and Erin Morse (Waukee, IA) and their kids, Cade, 3, and Brecken, 7 months. Eli and Cade love to play and love to camp. Parker and Brecken were really good too. I realize a good blogger would have photos to accompany this post. I am clearly not a good blogger at this point, but plan to do a better job as I go along.

Erin and I happened to notice a young couple camping not far from us and noticed they didn't have kids. We kind of joked how relaxing that must be! They were in their reclining camping chairs reading their books. Cut to our campsites with strollers, baby equipment, bottles, pacifiers, action figures, scooters, play doh, moon sand, and various other kid related crap strung about. We wouldn't have it any other way, but it's so comical how much extra stuff we have to bring for the kids, which usually ends up being a waste because Cade and Eli spent a good amount of time inspecting tree bark, bird poop and various other things in nature. It's so time consuming packing everything up and setting up, tearing down, etc., but it's really some of the best times we've had. We both would like to buy bigger campers (we both have pop up campers) but I'm pretty sure if we had more space it would just get consumed with more kid stuff!

Photo added!  Yay!