The Great Outdoors

This was our 1st camping trip since moving to Cali and Ella's very 1st camping trip ever! She was sooo excited to sleep in a tent. The whole night before she could hardly sleep, saying she was going to dream all night about sleeping in a tent and eating marshmallows. She's at a really great age to take camping now. We meet up with 6 other families at Palomar Mountain State Park and camped in Cedar Grove. I love hanging out by the fire doing tin foil dinner and smores.

Sleeping with 10 kids ranging from 6 months to 4 is quite the adventure! I think between the 6 different tents, we had one member of a family waking up on the hour :) Made for a fun night, we did still manged to get a little shut eye though. Camping can be a lot of work, but I would totally go again soon.

Ella was quite the little treasure hunter. Her and Emily were on the perfect acorn trek. Ella gathered up all the acorns that could fit into her little cargo pant pockets. So many, she had a hard time keeping her pants up due to the hefty weight of many lil acorns. super cute.

Thanks for organizing this Swenson's and Heathman's. I was really missing the mountains. I grew up camping & even though I'm not a die hard camper, I always want to go come summertime. It was a great way to end the season.

After unpacking from the camping trip and emptying out pockets before throwing the clothes into the wash, this is how many acorns I found in the lil beans pockets.....24! Yep, somehow she squeezed 24 acorns into her itty bitty cargo pockets. Pretty impressive if you ask me :)