Friday night:
- Jeff’s bbq. Complete with mesquite wood chips.
- Grilled turkey burgers with bbq sauce, swiss, and avocado.
- Smores. With peanut butter cups instead of boring old Hershey bars.
- Sitting under the stars, gabbing with two of my favorite girls. Evah.
It was the perfect spring night. Reminiscent of our Memorial Day camping trips to Grand Canyon. We’d have pizza sandwiches from the sandwich irons. We’d learn about California condors and fossilized dinosaur footprints during the ranger talks. We played rock tag. And Uno–in the camper–while the rain poured down, down,down.
Now I’m jonesing to go back.
Not so much for the camping, but more for the unadulterated family time. No cell phones. No tv. No blog. Just my peeps.
The wheels are turning in my head.
Hoping for a Memorial Day camping trip.
Something to hold me over until our next big family vacay: the southern Caribbean cruise/Disney World trip.
I have high hopes.
For starry skies. Long walks. Bedtime stories read by flashlight. And donuts{gasp} for breakfast.
Camping with my peeps.
Dirty feet and all.
How about you? What does spring leave you jonesing for?
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Amen! That sounds wonderful.
I suppose spring leaves me wishing for more land and more money to landscape said land. I love to work outside in the spring, and we’re running out of property, here. I was thinking that I won’t really be able to plant much more, and that makes me sad to think I’ve run out of planting space.
The house next door is empty – maybe I can start working on their yard, too.
Sounds wonderful! I’m ready for a trip too. We are taking our first ever family vacation in July to Colorado…by “first ever” I mean where we are not visiting family and just doing what we want!
Smores with peanut butter cups….yummo! Never thought to do it that way.
Well, I am NOT an outdoor-sy gal, but by the description on your post, I am even wanting to tag along with you.
Spring has me longing for days at the pool (especially this year, when I am for sure going to want to cool off daily)!
I grew up going camping with my parents. My hubby is not a camper. We enjoy hiking especially in National Parks and usually a beach vacation such as Outer Banks in the spring. I was just telling Michael that we should have a campfire in the firepit this weekend. Smores and family. Love it!
Me? I am jonesing to feel the arms of Michael and Jack around my neck – and riding with Becca to the store and sitting by the pool and looking at the stars with the boys and seeing the ring around the moon like we did at xmas time. But most of all, hugs from my grandsons and their arms around my neck………….
My kids have been asking when we are going to go camping…and i love it, i do. But its an awful lot of mama work, both before and after…definetly not what I want to do in the spring.
I want to sit in my green yard and sip merlot (or reisling – dependent on my mood) and just r-e-l-a-x, before the craziness of summer starts.
Such a beautiful post. Family adventures are what I love most of all.
When is your next Disney World trip? Also: tell us more about your Grand Canyon camping tradition. I’m intrigued.
P.S. Those sound like my kind of Smores!
We haven’t been camping as a family ever. We used to go camping before we had kids, and I loved it. Now that they are 4, 7, and 10, we are ready. (Well, I am ready. Hub was ready years ago, ahem.) You have me wanting to plan a trip right now.