Our First Trip to Tahoe

It was a little embarrasing to realize that we had lived here 4 years and still not taken a trip up to Lake Tahoe which is only two hours away! It was mostly because we just have little kids and sometimes it is hard thinking about taking them places. But the adventurous side in me came out and prodded Kevin that we neeeded to start doing more things with the kids out of our norm. It's not like we don't spend time with them, because we do, but we are homebodies and Kevin is especially, so if it were up to him we would always stay home. I talked him into doing an overnighter camping becuase we had never taken the kids camping before and they were absolutely beyond thrilled. Although after the fact I know why we aren't big campers, because it sooo much work. You are working nonstop getting ready for it and while you are there you are working nonstop and when you get home you work nonstop to clean everything and put it away. Talk about exhausting!

The weekend we chose Kevin had friday off work so we left around noon and headed up there. We stayed at Camp Richardson which is a pretty popular camp and it was really busy and full. When we got there there we ssome thunder clouds and Kevy was getting really nervous, but I was kept telling him it would sprinkle and that was it. Well I was way off. Right around dinner time,we had already started our dutch oven it started to pour and hail! It was totally crazy! Thankfully it only lasted about 15 minutes, but it left our camp so muddy that we were all so completely fithy the rest of the time.

 

 

 

Russ was completely in his element there. Dirt and tools, what more could a boy want? He spent a good portion of his time with this shovel just digging a hole.

 

Annie got really into the camping thing! This was within about 15 minutes of being there.

I was worried that the kids would be cold so we dug through out winter clothes and found their feet jammies. I thought this picutre of them together was just so cute.

This was Kevy in the morning after our very rough night. We didnt sleep very well to say the least. The kids did pretty well, but our air mmatress lost some air pretty quickly so we were sunk together and couldnt move very easily. Then I woke up and had to pee so I had to get up in the middle oft he night and it woke everyone else up, then someone's car alarm close by went off sometime around three and it took them about 5 minutes to turn it off, so we were up for a couple of hours in the middle of the night. All I could think that night was how glad I was that we were only staying one night!!

The next morning Annie was digging wearing these boots, she is very obsessed with shoes right now.

After breakfast we went down to the lake and spent some time. The kids loved it and digging in the sand. I was prepared for really cold water, but it wasn't as cold as I thought it would be.

It was seriously so gorgeous up there!

Anne wasn't too keen on the water this time which was fine by me!!

Russy did pretty good in the water, but got tired and a little grumpy after the girls freaked out about him wrecking something they were building, that made him really sad and it was all downhill from there.

One of the highlights of the whole trip though was when we got in our car and started heading home Russy said " Thanks for the fun trip Dad!" It was so cute! We had such a great time and can't wait to go back! Although we may just do a day trip!!