Beach, Camping, Flower, Slide Oh MY!!! (Part 2)

Addie's first time Relaxing by the Fire, while camping................she was VERY SLEEPY!So we got back from the beach late Sunday evening, had a regular week and went camping Saturday! We have had our camper since late February and haven't had a free weekend to go, until now. And this wasn't the most wonderful weekend to go either. We did have fun though. With it being a holiday weekend it would have been hard for us to find a site at the campgrounds around here so we decided to go to Graham's parent's property close to Crossville. Dottie and Bobby have camped all their lives, the gradually upgraded from a tent to a pop-up (when Graham and Sam were little) to a BIG camper, which they still own. They found this campground that you actually buy the lots and you can leave your camper there. It's very nice, they have I think 5 lots so there isn't anyone very close to them. They have build a huge roof and porch over their camper, nice stone pathways to and around the firepit and they have a boat that stays there. It really is a campers dream. It's very quiet and peaceful there, I love it! We sat up our pop-up on one of their sites and Addie was in heaven. She walked around the property, picked up sticks and played all afternoon. Since she missed her nap on the way up she was pretty whinny after dinner and we put her to bed. Shortly after that, while we were all relaxing by the fire it decided to rain. We went into Dottie and Bobby's camper and played cards until bed. It was so much fun!

Here is our First offical Pic of Camping in our camper for the FIRST time. (it's really not as small as it looks in this pic!)

Mee-Mee playing with Addie while mommie and daddy got the camper all set

The next morning we got up, had breakfast and took Addie to the little playground. She is so fearless, we put her on the top of the slide and before I could get to the bottom to catch her she slid down all by herself. When she rolled onto the ground at the bottom she started laughing and saying, "gin, gin". What a cutie! We had to leave by lunch-time Sunday because Graham needed to finish school, and I had big plans for planting flowers on Monday!

Here is FEARLESS Addie going down a big girl slide!

Monday was a good day, I planted flowers (with Addie's help) in all our flower beds. Now we have to go get some bushes, which we say we are going to do every year and haven't, for our big flower bed. I LOVE sitting on my front porch and looking at the flowers, maybe this year I will keep them alive!

Tuesday Graham had a minor surgery and had a cyst removed from his neck. It took all of an hour and was pretty neat to watch. I took my sweet but big baby of a husband home and we watched movies and napped all afternoon. It was wonderful, we haven't had a day like that since before Addie was born! That evening, before getting Addie from Dottie's, we headed out to Red Bank to pick up a little tikes slide. I have been looking for outside toys forever and finally found this slide really cheap on craigslist. I didn't want to pay full price, of around $65, for a toy that she probably could only use this summer. So when I found this for $25 in great condition, I had to get it! Addie Loves it! She climbs up and slides down over and over and over and over and over!

Thursday, my mom got Addie a castle playhouse. Addie has really racked up this week! The castle is really neat though, it has a slide and a tower that you can poke your head out of! Addie only got to play with it for few minutes last night but she loved it also!

(I don't have any pics of it right now, I will get some soon!)