our one night in the "wilderness"

wilderness is in quotations because we had a water faucet in our camp...which i must admit was super handy. yeah, i'm not a real "rough it" type.

our impromptu camping trip last weekend was the only camping we did all year. our camping stuff has been in storage, so we've postponed camping all summer. but last weekend looked like the last good weather before winter set in, so we went to our storage and dug out the gear.

lyla on our hike to the lake...

me and the kiddos...

bear tracks on the beach

lyla sharing my coffee

such a pretty dock

adam and lyla making crazy eyes

the REASON eli loves camping is this...his fire. adam buys him a big box of matches and builds him his own fire. it sounds dangerous...but he does really well. only one slightly burned finger.

eli all snuggled in his new sleeping bag

lyla hitching a ride...

she loves her daddy

i'm sure deep conversation was taking place here...

my two favorite quotes from the weekend:
"it's a good thing a bear didn't dash through our tent last night." -eli right after waking up.
"mom, did you bring the cheez-its into the tent?" -lyla 2:40am

and that was our one night in the "wilderness."