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Adult Camping Weekend

For the last several years, we've found a weekend when all our camping buddies can gather up Grandparents, friends, Aunts, Uncles, the homeless man across the street....whoever we can find to watch all our kids for a weekend so we can get away and actually CAMP. You know. Sit in our camp chairs and stay there. Sleep in. Not eat powdered donuts for breakfast. And lunch. And afternoon snack. Or do, whatever. Actually enjoy a cold beer by the fire. Play bags. NAP.  Basically, a weekend to do WHATEVER WE WANT TO, without having to worry about kids safety and entertainment plans.

We've ventured down to Rockville Lake in Parke County for the past three years, and have come to love the little tradition we've started. We've gone floating on Sugar Creek. We've went out on a boat on Raccoon Lake (only because we planned to float and overslept adn happened to know someone who knew someone with a boat).  This year, Stefanie & Trent joined the ranks, and Stef offered up her parent's boat for a girls afternoon on the lake. YES. PLEASE.

We had a wonderful weekend..........rocky start with some torrential downpours, but mostly a wonderful weekend with friends filled with lots of laughs!! So thankful God gave us such a fun tribe of people to raise our families with!!
 It's been YEARS (11 to be exact) since I've turned my Friday Diet Dew into a FUN pop! :)







Special shout out to both grandparents for completely spoiling our kiddos while we got away and rejuvenated! :)

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