The Great Outdoors

This past weekend, the family and I headed out to spend a weekend in 'The Great Outdoors' (a.k.a. Huntsville State Park) with some of our nearest (and not so near) and dearest friends. Of course, we almost didn't make it due to my dear husband's last-minute food poisoning (that's a whole other story), but luckily, we made it safe and sound to the park on Friday night as promised. Here's a rundown of our fun camping weekend in pictures (of course!)

Here's what we got to wake up each morning. Peaceful, isn't it?

It was so cold the first night and morning, that my dear husband had to 'wear' his blanket. Let's just say the guys got a good laugh out of this one!


Here's Ashlyn and her friend, Haleigh, enjoying the outdoors. Ashlyn is such a cut-up, I wonder where she gets it from? Hmmmm.....


Here's Layton and Jason taking a little afternoon nap in our shelter. They look so cozy, don't they?

Here's my dear friends in our 'Camping Diva' shirts. You didn't think that just because we were out in the wilderness, we couldn't look cute??!!!


Here's a picture of all our kids. If you look closely enough, you can see all the dirt on their little faces. Oh, to be a kid again...



Here I am roasting marshmallows with the kids for our s'mores. Poor Layton kept dragging his marshmallows in the dirt after he roasted them, so we had to do his twice. (Good thing, we had the chocolate from the previous s'mores to eat until we could get the marshmallows roasted!)


The Stansell family sitting down for a picture. I don't even think I noticed that the kids weren't sitting still for this picture until after I saw it. Oh well, one of these days we'll get a good family picture.


We are so blessed to have such wonderful friends to do things like this with. It was definitely a fun time had by all! Now, back to the daily grind...Until next time!