Our second annual Thanksgiving Camping Trip

I'm not sure if this is a tradition we can keep up, but I hope so. Camping is so much work and it didn't help that I got a bad cold right before the trip that is still bad afterwards. All the kids are / were  a bit sick, I think, too, and Sharon came down with it right when we got home. Plus it was one of the coldest sets of days of the year, with lows at night of 33 degrees F. Plus Peter is only 5 months old and he's got all sorts of problems eating and sleeping. So I guess it sounds kind of crazy and proves that Sharon is an amazing mother and wife to be willing to camp 2 days with all that. I'm not going to deny the hard times such as when Peter cried for hours on end in the middle of the freezing night. On the other hand, it was a lot of fun and built some memories that we will never forget. Worth it.

Sharon made a Thanksgiving dinner on Tuesday.

On Thursday we drove to Huntsville State Park. We camped in almost the exact same spot.

This year:

Last year:

Enoch and Michael had a blast.

Enoch was obsessed with sticks. He found and played and loved and lost and broke and cried over many of his favorite sticks.

I don't think anyone really got that cold. We sure figured out how to put layers on Peter.

I did lots of cooking with the dutch oven, but our favorite was fire roasted sweet potatoes with a sour cream brown sugar paprika sauce. The thanksgiving dutch oven leftover casserole and the dutch oven mountain man breakfast were also pretty good though!

One of my favorite parts was getting up before sunset the morning where it was 33 degrees and taking the canoe out on the lake. There was steam coming everywhere from off the lake, and it was fantasrtic. These pictures are cool, but they really don't do justice to how magical it was.

We have a lot to be grateful for, and I again want to thank Sharon for letting us go on this trip!