Shady Grove Camping in Pictures

Around Ben's birthday, we went camping at Shady Grove Campground. What can I say...when we go camping we like to go all of 15 minutes from home.... Anyway, it was great! This was part of our campsite...I don't know if you'd say it was the front or the back but anyway, you can see we were right at the lake with this great woodsy, sandy, dirty, outdoorsy, naturey stuff all around us. The kids loved it and said it was the BEST DAY OF THEIR LIFE.

Here is Ben, collecting shells and stuff. And putting the "stuff" in our chair cup holder.

Our friend, Lane and Cora exploring the "beach".

Ben collecting "stuff".

Lane collecting "stuff".

Tate and Ben collecting "stuff" and having deep conversations about it.

Brotherly Love, Take 1

Brotherly Love, Take 2

Ahhh....Brotherly Love, Take 3

This is the best day EVER!

Cora striking a pose, #1

Cora striking a pose, #2

Cora Striking a pose, #3





Cora Striking a Pose, #4

Ben enjoying all of nature while playing his DS and demonstrating to us what happened when he was sitting on top of stump #1 and stumbled, caught his shirt and fell onto stump #2, narrowly missing poking one of jagged edges from stump #2 into his eye and puncturing his wrist. Whew! I am still not sure why we don't end up in the emergency room more often but so far so good. Knock on wood. Knock on lots of wood.

Lolly