Happy Campers

Brian and I have been chomping at the bit to go camping.  If any of you know us at all, you know that we L-O-V-E to go camping.  It's been about two years since we have been able to go camping and we owe that all to Owen :)  It would have been a little much to camp last summer with a newborn baby...but that made this first camping trip that much better.  AND we brought a little certain somebody along for the ride to test out his mountain man skills...

Owen on his first camping adventure with Mommy and Daddy

I have to be honest, I was a little nervous to take him up to Strawberry with us because I wasn't sure how the little guy was going to be with the whole "roughing it" thing BUT he did AWESOME.  I gave birth to a little mountain man!  He took to the woods like it was second nature for him.  He loved to watch Daddy chop wood for the campfire, in fact, he thought it was hilarious for whatever reason.  We couldn't get him to stop laughing.

I wondered how he was going to handle sleeping in a tent on a air mattress but he LOVED that too.  He sprawled out in our sleeping bag and acted like he was just as warm and cozy as if he was in his own crib.  He definitely showed Mommy that he has this whole camping thing in the bag.

Just waking up from an afternoon nap in his cozy tent

Waiting patiently as we set up camp

He loved sitting around the campfire...he kept saying "HOT"

Playing around with Daddy and trying to steal his cap

We also got to do some fishing on this camping trip.  We met up with some of our friends who had their boat on the lake.  We had SO MUCH FUN with them!  Many thanks to Rob and Debbie for letting Owen experience his first boat ride.

Owen loved his 1st Boating/Fishing Excursion

In fact, he was Rob's little CAPTAIN

We even caught some fish!

Brian reeling in the BIG one

We brought that little guy home with us in the cooler :)

Heading back to the dock...don't you just love the look on Owen's face?!?!  He just woke up from another nap...SEE he loves the boat

It was such a great weekend!  We can't wait to do it again with the WHOLE family next time.  We have already scoped out our next camp site.  

But before we do that we have a BIG EVENT coming up this Saturday... can you guess what it is???

SOMEBODY IS TURNING ONE...!!!