Maiden Voyage

I finally got to camp in my new camper!!! I wanted to blog about using my new bathroom, but since that involved a picture of me on the potty, I decided to spare you. Needless to say, it was still a highpoint for me! Casey woke up around 3 a.m and needed a drink and I needed the bathroom. It was a balmy 30 something degrees so how awesome is it that I could just use my very own bathroom in my very own camper! I didn't have to freeze my tush off (although it could probably use some of that) and squat outside (I have a story about this too) and I didn't have to hike to the bathroom! Yay!! And although it was cold outside, it was warm warm inside because we have a furnace too!!! We did not lose all sense of camping while basking in our luxuries though!! We had an honest to goodness campfire and cooked in my new Dutch oven!!
I was busy setting up inside, you know, playing house in my new camper and anyway, Al was outside starting the fire. Pretty soon I looked out to see a fire and my baby perched on this bench by himself watching the fire! How sweet is that, I ask you?!
This is a picture of Emily, her two friends, Carter and Casey. Did I mention that we took two friends camping too as another activity to celebrate Em's birthday. Boy has she got it figured out, I tell ya. Two parties and an actual birthday in between! And she's only 9! They are posing in some piece of old farm equipment that has gone to the farm equipment graveyard. And the reason we have a picture of this is becasue we didn't actually camp in a campground. We camped out at Al's parents house near a field and by some woods. Since it was our "maiden voyage", Al wanted to be sure and be near his tools! You know how guys are. Anyway, good thing too, as we ran out of LP! That would have been mighty cold!
The kids all had a ball "exploring" in and around the creek in the woods. Yes, you read that correctly, "in" the creek! We told them to "watch the creek bank as we have had Lots of rain." We never actually said, "Don't go in the creek." So, of course, they came back from their adventure wet, muddy and full of stories!!!

And I got to be outside and cook over a fire....

Life is good.