Camping with toddlers

Corina, Freddie, Ollie & Keeley - the 4 'big kids'

Some of my best vacay memories as a kid are from going camping. Good old-fashioned pitching a tent and cooking meals over the fire (and by fire I mean camping stove). We've gone camping twice this summer so far and it's been awesome! Not a ton of sleep but LOTS of laughs.

We've gotten over bathroom fears (of the automatic toilet flush - NOT going in the woods), tent tears (picture a double air mattress with Freddie squeezed between William and I) and the youngest two straight up eating dirt.

Here are some pics from our trip last weekend to Lake Easton, just over an hour from Seattle.

Couldn't believe her good luck!

Washing dishes at the spigot!

Tent time!

Elsie learns to climb...everything!

Smiley GG.

Fire ban means roasting mallows on the stove!

Cookin' up some breakfast.

Booster seat = only thing making Elsie sit still. 

Freddie's First Christmas

Happy New Year everyone!! After a short hiatus, I am back and ready to blog. We had a wonderful Christmas in Ireland, full of many 'firsts' for Freddie. The photo/movie highlights are below. He really took his time opening presents (check out the video) so it was good he had his cousins around to help him out in Ireland.

First time opening presents:

First Edinburgh Christmas:

First Ireland Christmas:

First Christmas dinner: 

First Christmas cracker:

Freddie also sat up for the first time on his own and had his first trip to a farm! More about those two momentous events in the next post! Until then, Happy 2013 to you all! Freddie and I are off on a run as soon as he wakes up from his morning nap. I think we both put on a bit of "holiday weight" so it's time to burn some cals.