Our Pre-Camping Trip

We have a family reunion coming up in a week for my husbands side of the family. We are going to yosemite for 5 days of blissful camping. We wanted to make sure that we were thinking of everything we would need so we decided to have a pre-camping trip. We went just down the road to a camp/RV park. Luckily everyone slept at night and were suprisingly well behaved. Thank goodness or I would be coming down with Mono or something to avoid repeating a miserable experience. Otherwise it should be a lot of fun.
I just wish we could Lily to walk by then.
I forgot to include this picture of the snake we saw by our tent. Okay maybe it wasn't by our tent and Dave convinced me it was a water snake so Dave and the boys watched for about 10 minutes. And they felt pretty lucky for finding it. I think I would have been okay if I never saw it. I made sure and zipped up my tent extra tight that night.

Comments

Laura said…

I found you too! You should've spilled the beans sooner. As for me and camping, not any time soon. You are brave and apparently not as cranky as I am after a night of no sleep.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

crack'n up ourselves said…

Ciana,
Hey its Julie Meldrum. How are ya! I can't beleive you guys have 4 kids. Tell Dave Hi from me and Jason. I am glad you have a blog so we can keep up with your family.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Speedy Gonzales and the Black Stretchy Pants

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