Camping - Quartz Creek

Throwing rocks...always throwing rocks in the water.

Sweet Pea is not a happy camper here...I think she was hungry. I think it's funny how she scrunches up her face when she's mad.

There's our pop-up! I love it!!

Gotta love that dirty face!

Playin' swords with the bush.

This kid seriously refuses to sleep under covers. We got a light sleeping bad just for him and this is where I found him the following morning. Too funny.

Dad "babysitting" while The Bug and I went to the bathroom. He does a good job don't you think?

Our walk around the campsite to Quartz Creek

After such a crappy summer last year with all the rain, I informed Shayne we would be buying a camper this year so we could still get out and camp...especially with a baby. So at the beginning of May we purchased a pop-up camper trailer from some people in Anchor Point...and I'm so glad!!

I've decided there really is no other way to camp if you have children. I would never tent-camp with kids if I didn't have to...I don't care how cool you sound when you say you've tent camped w/ kids.

It was so nice to set it up, have somewhere to nurse my baby and to also have somewhere warm to sleep with a toddler who refuses to sleep under covers and a 2 month old baby. It was SOOOO nice to have a camper. And...it's small so it doesn't cost us an arm and a leg to pull it places.

Our first place to actually camp was at Quartz Creek. We tried to go there the weekend of Shayne's birthday, but didnt' realize we needed to reserve a spot online. We drove to EVERY campsite w/in a 20 mile range of Quartz Creek Campground and found ZERO campsites left. So, the next weekend we decided to go I reserved a spot ahead of time. We only reserved one night, and we wish we had reserved two so we could have taken our time getting out of the camp ground...things we've learned.

It was so dang hot on this day! Seriously, I think it hit 85+ during the day. It cooled off a bit by the time we left, and was very comfortable when we got to our campsite. We camped next to Kenai Lake and The Bug loved walking to the lake, finding rocks to throw, or filling up his bucket with water. He also loved playing in the dirt and "helping" dad to chop some wood. We went for a walk around the campground the next morning before leaving which was nice as well.

We seriously loved getting out as a family and camping together. Can't wait to go again...which will be next weekend at the Russian River. Yeah!!