Voshell's Campground

This past weekend, my family and I loaded up our campers and made the long journey over to my uncle's house to camp for labor day weekend. By long journey, I mean about 5 minutes for us. :-) Hey, it's the perfect trip! You're close to home if you need anything or something happens, and we don't have to pay camping fees like we would if we went to an actual campground (though we truly believe this one is legit too).

Of course the weather was beautiful, until we went...that's when the disgusting, hot, sticky weather came back.  Mother Nature apparently doesn't care for us.  The kids didn't care, they ran and ran all day, covered in dirt! And? This was our first camping trip with Aubrey.  I was really worried about how that would go since she only turned a month old while we were there.  Thankfully, it went really well! She napped in the air conditioned camper most of the time and didn't wake the kids up when she woke up in the middle of the night.  Yay! And plus also!? This was the first trip that I could actually have some adult beverages...Ahhhh, that was nice! :-)

Here are some pictures from our trip:

Just chilling in Mommy's chair

This is why I don't mess with Kelly! :-)

Ronnie showing us how it's done!

Emma's looking a little concerned with Ronnie handling that gun

Chugging his drink...it's what he does!

Trying to stay cool

Aubrey trying to escape the bugs!

Helping Uncle Patrick get his cornhole bags together

Probably planning to get into something

Patrick with his new cornhole game...this was the big attraction for the men this weekend

The walking exhausted

Pinata time

Emma didn't want any part of it, but Patrick didn't care

Nice hit, Aiden!

Hanging with her daddy

Grabbing the loot

Pinata head

Emma was happy with her goodies

Oh, Dirty Bird!

Having to get showered off outside

Catching a ride from Uncle Ron

Riding with Uncle Ron

Having fun

The ladies trying to stay cool

The Campground

Voshell's Campground Trip

This past weekend our family and my cousin's family set off on our long journey (10 minutes down the road) to my uncles house for the annual Voshell's Campground vacation.  My 2 cousins and their families have been doing this for a couple of years but this was our first time officially participating since we just got our camper a little while ago.

We had SO much fun!  It was a lot of hanging around, running our mouths (which we do SO well), watching the kids run constantly all day, eating yummy foods, and enjoying the campfire!

The first full day we were there it was raining off and on. Even though I would have preferred sunshine, we still had fun playing outside when the sun was out and playing inside the "clubhouse" aka garage while the rain was coming down. The first morning didn't start off so well for us...when I woke up, I went to go outside and noticed that I had a hard time opening the door.  Well come to find out we didn't have the awning as slanted to one side as we should have and it poured over night.  All kinds of rain was puddled in the awning. Not good.  When Patrick tried to release it, it was way heavier than he thought and slipped down and crack! It sort of snapped right in the middle.  Like I said...not good. Who knows how much that will cost to fix. Yikes! Hopefully someday that will be one of those memories that doesn't make you so mad! The day did get better and that night my cousin, cooked a brisket in his smoker.  OMG! That was delicious! I could really go for that right about now!

 

Broken awning

Smoking our dinner

 

 

 

 

 Saturday was filled with lots of good stuff too! We enjoyed a delicious breakfast cooked by Ron.  Who knew?! :-)  We played wiffle ball, went on a nature walk and saw a little turtle, made candy necklaces, went for a "hayride" pulled by Pop-pop (aka my Uncle Ronnie) on the tractor, the men folk got to shoot guns, another great dinner, smores, and conversation and adult beverages around the fire.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emma planking...who knew she was so hip!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Emma even taught herself how to swing Sunday morning before we had to pack up and go home.  She was so funny back there yelling "wheeeeee" as she would go.  And boy has she come a long way since our first camping trip where she hated to get dirty.  This time she would fall down in the dirt and get up and keep right on going.

 

What a great trip!  I can't wait to get back there again!

I tried narrowing down the pictures! Shew, was that hard!!