camping

This year's camping trip's biggest boasting point?  Great weather and solid sleep! After last year's downpours and lost sleep I think Matt went into the event with fairly low expectations - and was pleasantly surprised!

{and they picked the best weekend to go - today it's cool and rainy but last Saturday was absolutely gorgeous!}

Matt and three other dads teamed up for the experience.... these families are sweet friends of ours.

Car camping at it's finest folks :)  There is little in the way of official park service here but we have a friends who own land out here - about an hour from our home - and this place has proven itself a great camping spot.  Bonus that the "road" dead ends at this flat patch of ground.  It's part of an old youth training camp or something, no one seems to be exactly sure of the history but we do know that the old fire pit that comes in handy!    

The morning was plenty cool - a little taste of fall weather to come.

These boys are every bit as fun as you think they are...

Matt said John Paul was a camping legend.  He was the youngest by a long shot, but held his own.

I love this picture -

and I'm so glad our kids get experiences like these with people like these.