Our Great Weekend Outdoors

This memorial day weekend we went camping with our friend Sherry in Fort Bragg. This was Fisher's first camping experience and he did great! I really think he loves the outdoors. I packed way too many clothes for him (I just wasn't sure how much I would need) and we brought his excersaucer for him to be able to have some familiar territory. When we first arrived at our campsite it was pretty late. I think it was about 10:30pm. Fisher had a little panic attack when mom got out of the truck and we started to unpack all our gear. But he slept great and the rest of our days were really fun. Here is our story.

On our way...



We did a lot of "just hangen around". This is how Fisher does it.

We had a great walk on the shoreline....

where we saw some seagulls that I was apparently really into because I took a ton of pictures of them.

We also saw some little ground squirrels or something of that nature. Can you find the squirrel in this photo???

Here he is!!!

And some pretty flowers just sprouting in the midst of the sand dunes.

Fisher really liked being in our tent as you can see by the gargantuan smile he has. Oh, he is to die for!

I really love to sit by a good fire. Not that you can tell by the look on my face in this photo.

Fisher spent a little time chillen by himself on his blanket. I think he just liked chatting with the trees about his wonderful feet he has found.

Grandpa Richard gave Fisher this really cool get-up that is sleeping bag material inside and fleece on the outside. It was perfect for sleeping outdoors. He stayed nice and toasty. He just couldn't move very well which was pretty nice when he went to bed at night. He just kind of laid there staring at the ceiling of the tent, unable to move and get wound up. He fell asleep quite fast and with little fussing.

I couldn't get enough of my little man. He's getting to know me and interact with me. I love it when he looks at me like this.

Adam carried Fisher around in the Kelty kids pack on our adventures. Fisher would stay awake for a while babbling and singing with the birds, but soon he would crash. Poor guy woke up with a huge red mark between his eyes where the seat had rubbed as he bounced up and down to Adam's stride.

As we packed up to leave Fisher played on a tarp. I looked over and he was scrunching it all up cuz he liked the noise it made. Soon, of course, it was in his mouth. He was really quite excited about this. Well, the dirt turned to mud with his slobber and ended up all over his face and hands. He then fell over onto his back as if exhausted, and pulled the corner of the tarp over himself like a blanket.

He thought it wast he perfect place to take a nap.

After we packed up we headed to the waterfall. It was not the "15 minute hike" Adam claimed it to be. But it was still worth the time and hike. Adam did the hard work of hauling our heaviest equipment up...Fisher.

After the waterfall we had some lunch out of our tailgate and headed to glass beach. My friend was "in heaven" with all the seaglass to collect. She's a hoarder like myself :). For some reason my feet look huge in this picture.




We left for home and Fisher slept almost the whole way home. First he shed some tears because he hated to leave behind Our Great Weekend Outdoors.