We camped up north of here, near Taylors Falls. The park is on the border of Minnesota and Wisconsin. The hiking pictures are in Taylors Falls State park. We actually camped at a campground that was a few miles away... a pretty crappy campground, compared to the state park one... but what do you expect when you try to make camping reservations 3 days before Memorial weekend?! These are hiking pictures. The state park is Am-az-ing! Huge rock cliffs, right on the river. Paths to walk in between the rock.
Here, Maddie is reading a plaque about the rock formations. And Maddie and Lily in a "pot hole", a naturally created hole from erosion. Many were filled with slimy water, but this one was dry.
On this day, Jeff had taken Maddie and Lily hiking, while Abby and I went into "town" for some groceries and supplies to fix the leaky drain on our camper. So, all of these pictures were taken by Jeff on his camera phone. We all went back the next day for a day of hiking, but FORGOT THE CAMERA!!! These 
pictures are nice, but NOTHING like what we saw when we hiked through there. We are going to camp there (at the state park, not the crappy campground we stayed at this weekend) very soon, so I will have pictures. You will all want to come to Minnesota!
On our shopping trip, Abby and I picked up hats for all the girls. Here we are in our rainbow of hats!
Poor Sadie.
This was the afternoon after the hike Jeff took Lily and Maddie on. Lily was sooo tired. She would not lay in her porta crib, so I layed down with her, and practically had to wrestle her to get her to nap... not easy!!
How freaking cute is she, though! I laid with her for an hour or so... looking at her sweet face... she slept for 4 hours! Then she and Nina (her baby) had a snack.
Lily and Sadie dancing. She was giggling so hard! It was adorable. Her and Sadie are such buddies. They really do love eachother!
This is a shot I took when we picked Jeff and the girls up. They were WAY up on a cliff! Good zoom on that camera!
Can you see them up there?
Abby avoided falling asleep during actual nap time... but at dinner time, she couldn't stay awake anymore! This kid RUNS from sun up til sun down... makes me tired just watching her! You can see the divider sheet in this picture... this is Abby's side. It is really cozy! There is a shelf across the bed for "stuff". Good thing, because, as you can imagine, the girls have LOTS of "stuff"!
pictures are nice, but NOTHING like what we saw when we hiked through there. We are going to camp there (at the state park, not the crappy campground we stayed at this weekend) very soon, so I will have pictures. You will all want to come to Minnesota!
On our shopping trip, Abby and I picked up hats for all the girls. Here we are in our rainbow of hats!
Lily loved playing in the coolers! She mostly ate the ice, but also delivered beers and dumped the entire carton of eggs out. Amazingly, not one egg broke... and we had alot of beers (c'mon... could you say no to that face?!) Here is our camper. It is really pretty roomy! I did not get good (well, any) shots of the inside. I will do that next time. Maddie and Abby shared one bed, a king size... I hung a sheet down the pole on the middle of the bed, so they have "privacy"... they love this. Jeff and I have the other bed, and Lily in in the porta crib in "the kitchen" . In out old camper, the porta crib fit where the dinette table goes, but it doesn't fit in this one :( but, our dinette is a slide out, so it is not too bad.
Here is Abby, she spent a Loooong time rubbing sticks together
Here is Abby, she spent a Loooong time rubbing sticks together
to start a fire! It kept her occupied!
Poor Sadie.
I do not think camping is the life for her. She wrapped her lead around the picnic table, the awning poles, the neighbors
camper wheels (whom, by the way... parked WAY in our site.
Like 8 feet into our site, grrrrrr. Jeff was complaining about it, and I just ignored it, until I realized just how far onto our site they were (and these were tiny sites to begin with) Me, being, well, me... did have to say something to them... no worries, I was polite.. kind of a "just so you know... %$^^$$)$$#@.... ;) They had a huge camper-of-my-dreams camper., so we weren't going to make them move, but it was a little annoying.
Back to our peaceful camping trip.
This was the afternoon after the hike Jeff took Lily and Maddie on. Lily was sooo tired. She would not lay in her porta crib, so I layed down with her, and practically had to wrestle her to get her to nap... not easy!!
How freaking cute is she, though! I laid with her for an hour or so... looking at her sweet face... she slept for 4 hours! Then she and Nina (her baby) had a snack.
Lily and Sadie dancing. She was giggling so hard! It was adorable. Her and Sadie are such buddies. They really do love eachother!
This is a shot I took when we picked Jeff and the girls up. They were WAY up on a cliff! Good zoom on that camera!
Can you see them up there?
Abby avoided falling asleep during actual nap time... but at dinner time, she couldn't stay awake anymore! This kid RUNS from sun up til sun down... makes me tired just watching her! You can see the divider sheet in this picture... this is Abby's side. It is really cozy! There is a shelf across the bed for "stuff". Good thing, because, as you can imagine, the girls have LOTS of "stuff"!
This is post nap Lulu... we had already eaten dinner (I think that picture is at the end!) I think i ended up bringing her dinner to her in this chair. After a good nap and some food... she was up until after midnight! Good thing we had a roaring campfire and many s'more fixins!
The girls (mostly Lily and Abby) loved scooping up rocks and putting them into pails, moving 6' , dumping bucket, and starting again. Maddie rode her bike in a big circle around our camp site, like a million times. We actually let her go to the play ground by herself (gulp... I hate that she is getting to the age where she wants "trust" and "independence".... HATE IT!!!) But she is a good kid... and I spied on her (shhhh) I love this picture of Lu... pure Joy, and a little nutso.
Jeff and Sadie. He growled at me when I took this picture of him loving Sadie, because the "official" word is, "this little worthless dog belongs to my wife" (but he really loves her... don't tell his brother's!)
Gotta get that fire started! Rub those sticks Lulu! Maddie was actually pretty good at the campfire teepee.
Yep... more bike riding and scooping tiny rocks into buckets. Really, alot of time was spent doing this!
This is Lily's bike trailor. Lily lovves her bike trailor. Jeff, the week before we went camping, bought a "tag-a-long" for Abby. It is a one-wheel bike that Jeff attatches to his bike. Abby can pedal, and NO training wheels. She Looooves that too. Maddie is a pro on her bike, so now we can go for family rides. I pull Lily (and Sadie in her little kennel, which Lily loves, in the cart. Jeff pulls Abby on her Tag-a-long!
The girls (mostly Lily and Abby) loved scooping up rocks and putting them into pails, moving 6' , dumping bucket, and starting again. Maddie rode her bike in a big circle around our camp site, like a million times. We actually let her go to the play ground by herself (gulp... I hate that she is getting to the age where she wants "trust" and "independence".... HATE IT!!!) But she is a good kid... and I spied on her (shhhh) I love this picture of Lu... pure Joy, and a little nutso.
Jeff and Sadie. He growled at me when I took this picture of him loving Sadie, because the "official" word is, "this little worthless dog belongs to my wife" (but he really loves her... don't tell his brother's!)
Gotta get that fire started! Rub those sticks Lulu! Maddie was actually pretty good at the campfire teepee.
Yep... more bike riding and scooping tiny rocks into buckets. Really, alot of time was spent doing this!
This is Lily's bike trailor. Lily lovves her bike trailor. Jeff, the week before we went camping, bought a "tag-a-long" for Abby. It is a one-wheel bike that Jeff attatches to his bike. Abby can pedal, and NO training wheels. She Looooves that too. Maddie is a pro on her bike, so now we can go for family rides. I pull Lily (and Sadie in her little kennel, which Lily loves, in the cart. Jeff pulls Abby on her Tag-a-long!
So! This was our First Karan's camping trip in 3 years! The girls had a blast. We all agreed we love this, and Jeff, Abby, Lily and I are going camping next week! Maddie is going to South Dakota with Grandma Dette, Aunt Sandy, Will and Zoe (for 8 days! :( ) But Abby is looking foreward to ponies (you can rent them at the camp ground we are going to. The petting Zoo will thrill both of them and the small kids water park will be perfect for them! This is the link, if you want to check it out. We are off June 11-14.
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