Black Creek

What's a summer without a camping trip?

Kyle had a week off of his internship, so we headed up to Michigan Thursday night and went with my family to Black Creek Campgrounds Friday night.

We had 10 campers, 2 tents, and a complete blast!

Dad unloaded the car and set up camp.

Kyle started a "1 match fire."*

Avery was in heaven with all this dirt.

Andrew and Scott had a fascination with burning sticks.

I enjoyed sitting back in my chair, trying (unsuccessfully) to evade the smoke. Smoke follows beauty, right?

Ben refined his woodchopping skills.

My mom cared for Avery while Dad and I cooked hotdogs.

And really, after you finish hot dogs all you want to do is move right on into marshmallows!

Unfortunately, we learned that graham crackers can (and will) go rancid if you purchase them years in advance to going camping. :) Fortunately, we had s'more poptarts to sandwich our marshmallows and chocolate between and they were Hea-ven-ly!

Other activities were frisbee golf around the campsite, a rousing card game of presidents, bugs being smashed on the camping table by Andrew and Scott (much to Kimberly's dismay), a mix of baseball and football rolled up into one game, and watching Avery refine her knee-walk.

Yup, those jammies will never be the same. And although there was not a ton of sleeping that occurred (what can you expect when you are 31 weeks pregnant?) the trip was still deemed a success!