Monday, July 30, 2012

First camping trip!

Our family had our first official camping trip at Crystal Cove State Park in Newport Beach.  It's a beautiful nature reserve area between Newport and Laguna beaches.  We camped out two nights with my parents, brother and sister in law and little brother.  We had so much fun being together, eating fantastic campfire food (found on pinterest) and being able to walk to the beach everyday.  This was our view from our campsite.  


The kids stayed in the van and watched a movie while we set up camp :)  





Austin is a wanderer so we put him in the pack-n-play when we fixed meals or needed to get anything done. He didn't seem to mind.




 We got to celebrate my mom's birthday and I made her favorite Andes mint brownies!  


The first night was horrible and the kids didn't sleep AT ALL... so when the sun rose we decided to go on a morning hike.  The view was beautiful!  The kids look a little cranky in this pic, as they should be for getting no sleep! The second night was much better.  I think the kids were so exhausted from being at the beach and they slept all night!

Uncle Reed helped the kids ride his skate board!


Kylee loved finding sand crabs with Aunt Tasia.  






We built sand castles and decorated them with the sea shells we found.


 We decided to go on a family hike down to the tide pools.  All but Austin enjoyed it :)

Looking for crabs.  

Austin was over it and only wanted to be held by his Papa.



Mom and Dad

Kylee with Aunt Tasia and Uncle Shane


Camp

This was such a fun family camping trip and I think we'll do it again!



2 comments:

Nikki said...

You are so brave! Don't tell Ryan you took both kids camping. :) Kylee is starting to look so much like you, so beautiful!!! Miss you guys! Good luck with the next few weeks!!!

John-David and Kathryn said...

Looks like a lot of fun. When do you guys move to Iowa?

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