Perfect Camping Weekend

This past weekend, we went camping with the gang: Buddy and Sissy, Nick, Amy and Jonah, Marie, my Mom and Dad, Aunt Kathryn (my sister) and Uncle Andrew and Luke. Buddy and Sissy are my parent's best friends and we have grown up together and made many fun memories over the years. Amy and Kathryn have literally been best friends since birth. It was so fun to get together for the weekend just like we used to do all the time growing up - now we have our own kids in the mix!

It was beautiful camping weather - shorts and t-shirts for comfortable day-time wear, sweatshirts at night to roast s'mores. Check out Luke and Carolina getting a classic camping bath above! Aren't they the cutest? You can see Carolina's first camping bath here.
Wow! They are both smiling! Of course, my sweet nephew, Luke, always smiles big for the camera! Carolina on the other hand has to be coerced . . .
Noni and Dandy with their two grandBABIES - and yes, they are wearing matching t-shirts. Aren't they cute? They promise they didn't do it on purpose!

Our little pumpkins - Luke (6 months), Carolina (4 months) and Jonah (7 months). It was quite interesting to try to capture a decent picture! Carolina can't sit up yet like the big boys! You can see what "they" all looked like this past Christmas . . .
They were all getting tired of the paparazzi so they all had to lay down - and Carolina was over it by now - Jonah was SO interested in her bow! (Notice Luke's {Lawton's} blue jeans on Carolina! I am going to have to go find her some blue jeans with ruffles soon!)
And then Lawton had to join the mix!
Me and my peeps . . . poor sis, she is so over it by now.

Chad and the peeps
Noni and Lawton throwing things (rocks, leaves and such) in the creek at the campground
Can life get any better? Not in Lawton's eyes! Notice he has on the same clothes in ALL the pictures while everyone else's changes. Yep, he wanted to wear the SAME thing all weekend, even though I brought a whole suitcase of clothes for him. Oh well, we are just camping - less laundry for me! (And one NASTY outfit at the end of the weekend!)
Chad and Carolina overlooking Lawton and Noni on the bridge.
Lawton helps (loudly disturbs) all the fishermen on the bank, including Dandy. Thank goodness he didn't have the attention span to help (disturb) the fishermen for long!

Carolina loves her exersaucer!
Goin' for a stroll with cousin Luke.
Lawton and Uncle Andrew are playing a mean game of vintage Candyland. Look at the concentration on their faces!
Buddy squeezes in some Carolina lovin'! (And who couldn't love that precious face below?)
We had so much fun - Lawton absolutely LOVES to go camping! He kept saying over and over, "I want to stay for 100 (nights). I don't want to ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever leave!" (He started saying this on Friday night!) Fun times!