Camping at the Beach

We finally went camping at the beach as a family! Our Ward did a family campout at Fort De Soto Beach and we had so much fun. We even brought Daisy, our dog, with us so she wouldn't be by herself all night long. She's part hound so the smells of the campsite were driving her crazy! The kids of course love every minute of it. It only took Alex and Kate about 5 minutes after we arrived to get soaking wet, so they had to play in their pajamas for the rest of the night. Owen went off and played hide and seek with the older kids and their flashlights. Sleeping is always a challenge when it comes to trying to settle the kids down to go to sleep and they're right next to each other. But Brad handled that pretty well. Notice that I don't have any pictures of the camping part of our trip and that's because of trying to keep track of the kids when running in 3 different directions!! Sorry, I'll do better next time.

The next day we went to the beach at Fort de Soto and we found out the this beach was the #1 beach in the U.S. in 2005. It was beautiful and the kids, like always, had a blast. Daisy learned how to swim and that was an interesting experience. We had to hike through a bit of water to get to the nicer part of the beach and Daisy just jumped right in after us. She started to drown at first, so Brad had to help her out. Then she tried it again and she was a pro! She had so much fun running and playing in the water. The boys made a pool on the beach and Kate lounged aroung enjoying the water and sun. It was such a relaxing day!