Our Summer Camping Trip

It's hard to call an overnighter a "camping trip," but that's about the level of adventure we are up to these days. On Monday afternoon we went up to the Jackson family property to stay in a tent, make dutch oven enchilada's and cobbler, and do all things camping.
When we got there we walked around the property and walked down to visit the pond. We had Scooby with us and as soon as he saw the sheep, he thought he had a job to do and set off chasing after them. Then we went and set up our campsite.
After we had our tent set up and the air mattresses blown up, we could hardly get Mckinley out of the tent. She called it her cave and wanted to do nothing the rest of the day but sit inside it and read her animal book to her 3 baby stuffed animals. She even begged us to let her put her Jammies on.
We went on a nature walk with scotch tape around our wrists, sticky side out, and made bracelets with some of the very pretty things we saw. We even found a very rare snipe feather! Mckinley's got dirt on it and nothing would stick to it after that, so she took it off. But poor David got stuck doing this girly activity and with another girl on the way, there will be plenty more where these came from.
We started making dinner when we got back to our campsite. This is David cooking the Enchiladas. This has become our traditional camp food. They turned out really good. We also made peach cobbler, another favorite. Yummy!

While the food was cooking, we had a little family night lesson with Mckinley about holding to the rod. We then went and held to our own "rod" that led us all through the trees with a treat at the end. See the rod? Haha.
After dinner, we sat by the fire and watched two owls swooping around us. It was so quiet, the only thing we could hear was an occasional sheep bleating. Mckinley finally got to put her jammies on, and was so happy to read a story together. As soon as we told her she could lay down, she was instantly asleep. (but she was snoring like a little brown bear, so we had to wake her up and give her a Benadryl to clear her nose out.)
We woke up the next morning, ate some cereal, hung out for a bit, then came home. Mckinley is a camping queen now and didn't want to leave. We will have to make sure to get back up when the leaves are changing.
Scooby loves camping too!