Wisconsin

We took our first family trip to Wisconsin last weekend for a 3 day camping trip. In hindsight, we should have paid more attention to the forecast, which called for thunderstorms on Friday night and all day Saturday. At about 2 am on Friday night we woke up to the sounds of thunder in the distance and crazy lightning and it came right to us. Imagine the craziest thunderstorm you have ever seen, and then imagine being outside in it inside a tent with your kids. It was nuts, and I was definitely a little scared. The boys, however, were un-phased. Charlie slept through the whole thing and it woke Alec up, but after laying with us to watch it for about 2 minutes, he asked when he could go back to bed, and then passed right back out. Anyway, it ended up raining ALL day on Saturday and we had to move campsites b/c our first site was submerged in mud, but the sun finally showed up on Sunday and we made the most of it. Alec had a ball playing with Hayden (they didn't mind the rain at all), he learned to ride a bike, and Charlie was a trooper as always. On Sunday night Charlie slept through the night for the first time, 9:30pm-7am. Of course it was in a pack n play inside a tent in the cold, and of course he has yet to repeat the performance since we've been home and in his bed, but he did it nonetheless. Here are some pics from the weekend, and hopefully I'll get around to another post this afternoon since it sweet Charlie's 1/2 year birthday!

tent olympics - otherwise known as trying to entertain ourselves while staying dry.

Brody somehow found a bush full of burs on Sat morning and was covered in them from head to toe. We couldn't do anything to get them out, and he was fairly uncomfortable until Monday when we took him to the groomer, who had to completely shave him, to get them off. Charlie's face sums up how we all felt about the dirty dweezle all weekend.

After hours of playing with Hayden in the rain

Smore sticks

Piper and Charlie

Bike riding buddies

Piper was hilarious, she would b-line for Charlie every time we put them close together and completely tackle him. He knows she's coming.

Swimming in the lake, it was a little chilly.


The boys did tons of bike riding - we hardly saw them all weekend.

Seriously, could this baby be any cuter?



Conclusion, Wisconsin is gorgeous and a great place to camp, but, any rain the forecast next time and we are out.