Spring Break

During spring break, we headed to the coast to do some camping with friends. What a great time we had. My parents took us camping every year growing up, and I have such great memories. It's fun to see our kids have so much fun, I'm working on Jeff to get a pop-up trailer, because we had some serious issues trying to squeeze our family of 7 into the car with all of the camping gear. Luckily, between 3 other friend's vehicles, we were able to get all of our stuff there.

We spent the afternoons down at the beach. There was so much drift wood, the kids loved building forts and bridges with it.









One day, it drizzled/rained most of the day. The kids couldn't have cared less and were still at the beach in their swim suits, while the mommies were wraped up in the beach towels :)





We got lots of chuckles and laughs from other campers walking past, as they admired our junior biker gang.






One morning we headed to Capitola to do some fishing from the wharf. It was absolutely beautiful and so quaint. I never really did figure out what we were fishing for....








We played lots of games. Jessica is passing on her camping tradition of playing bingo, and it has now become a favorite with the kids. Bells was the first to get bingo, and couldn't quite decide which candy to choose. (she left her helmet on for 90% of the time we were camping, that way she was always ready to hop on her bike and race around the campground).










Jeff did some dutch oven cooking, which was super yummy, and lots of fun. We used dutch oven liners in the pans which are a MUST if you use your dutch oven. Liners = no clean-up.





One morning, we found an empty area and did an easter egg hunt. We hid over 80 eggs!

We had such an amazing time. Camping is a LOT of work, but the memories and fun times are totally worth all of the sand, dirt, and smokey-smelling clothes.