The Schrodt Family Campers!

This was the boys roasting their marshmallows the first night. On hangars!!!!

Yummy smores!! Jacob took one bite of his, and then said he just wanted plain chocolate!! Hilarious. Me and Josiah really enjoyed ours though - that was the reason I ran on Friday morning! So I could enjoy my smores without guilt!


Josiah and Jacob - aren't they so cute? I should have had David take a picture of my face, because this was at 10:30 AT NIGHT!! They should have been asleep long long ago, but look at how excited they were!!!!

Alexander, Josiah, and Bradley worked for over an hour getting "their campfire" ready - they moved all this wood all over the campsite to load up this firepit. It was hilarious! None of us really clued in to what they were doing until the 3 of them started moving these huge logs!!!

Alayna was the only other girl of the bunch - she just turned 1, and is such a cutie. Especially when covered in dirt!! Callie watched her with envy!!

All my boys canoeing! They saw a deer jump in the water and swim to the other side when they were out on their boat ride!!
Forgive the picture of me, but this was Callie in her camping clothes!!! I had to rustle up a pair of overalls for her to wear on her camping trip. She doesn't really have any "grubby" clothes, you know!
This was the best. The boys and I went for a hike on Saturday afternoon while David was playing bocce ball. We had a great time just hiking and exploring.


Yes, that's a real axe. And yes, they were chopping wood. And YES, TWO of them had babies in their hands at the time!!!!

Callie and Alayna - the girls were so cute with each other. This was one time they were actually both contained on the blanket!
I love, love, love this picture!! This was on Saturday morning. After breakfast, David and I were going to take the boys for a quick walk before Callie's morning nap, and slowly we kept adding kids who wanted to come along. We had the whole gang of big boys with us, and I got this picture when we first started our adventure. What fun! (It's Bradley, Josiah, Grayson, Alexander, and Jacob)
After our walk, we came back and painted some rocks that we had found.

Mr. Boyer took the boys for a little bike ride. (Oh, and in the background, you can see our van and the tent that we stayed in).

So here are some pictures (a few!) from our fabulous camping weekend. We had such a great time with some friends from our small group (a BIG thank you to all of you that helped us novice campers out!) and made some wonderful family memories. Josiah said his favorite thing was sleeping in the tent, and Jacob said his favorite thing was going canoeing. Really, we enjoyed the whole weekend so much (well, except for the part about the boys not going to sleep until 10:30 pm on friday and a few minor behavior issues due to lack of sleep the night before) and definitely look forward to doing it again. Enjoy the pics!! (By the way, sorry they are out of order. I can only load 5 or 6 at a time, and so they get in all backwards. How do you remedy this? I don't know how to move them around once they are loaded??) There are about another hundred pictures, but I'll let everyone else post their other ones for you to get the whole scene! It was great though!