Our Easter Weekend...

One of the best things about having your own blog is that you can write about anything you want to…whatever tickles your fancy. I know that most of the time I write about wedding-related stuff, as a way to keep my peeps up-to-date on what’s going on with the wedding planning, but today I think that I’ll take a day off.

Last weekend was Easter, and we were lucky enough to have our kids. Instead of a traditional weekend spent around family and all, we decided to stay closer to home and spend it with just the four of us. We’ve got a crazy schedule right now with little CC in soccer and tweenager CC in baseball season right now, so there’s already too much traveling going on…we just wanted to relax and not have to spend 8 hours of the holiday weekend on the road.

So what did we decide to do? We took the kiddos camping…

We had a blast! I haven’t camped out in a few years, and I had forgotten how much I love it. Little CC had not been camping before that she can remember, so this was a first for her. And tweenager CC had not been camping with girls…Mr. CC didn’t sleep in tents (or on air mattresses) so this whole weekend was a new experience for everyone!
After a slightly rough start to the weekend on Friday, we got to McKinney Falls State Park, located just outside of Austin. It was kind of nice not going too far! We got the last primitive campsite that they had available for the weekend and got camp set up and dinner cooked just as it was time to go to bed that night. We all slept good and got up early the next day for a nice camp-cooker breakfast (since there’s a burn ban in effect right now, no campfires were allowed).

We spent the day exploring the park and seeing the sights. Somehow we ended up on a 5 mile hike with the kids, but they did good and didn’t complain (much). Little CC’s legs were hard pressed to keep up, and she only complained for the last mile, which was pretty good considering. After the hike, we took a nap (YEA!) and then tried to go to the playground at the park. Unfortunately it started to rain, so we ended up spending time at the river behind our tent skipping rocks and Mr. CC spent some time with tweenager CC and his "curve ball." It turns out that little CC has QUITE a throwing arm on her, so maybe T-ball is in the plans for next year...

The next morning was Easter, and we had another great breakfast followed by our own Easter Egg hunt. Little CC stuffed all the eggs herself, and Mr. CC and I hid the eggs. At first, tweenager CC didn’t want to hunt eggs, but it didn’t take long for him to see how much fun little CC was having before he joined in…
Yeah, I don’t really know what to say about the knife in the eggs…he’s a guy…and we were camping…
They had a blast and we all enjoyed ourselves. The kids can’t wait to go camping again, and Mr. CC and I might even take a trip without them!

I hope that everyone had as good of an Easter holiday as we did…we spent the time with our new family and really enjoyed ourselves, even though we did miss our other loved ones. Maybe next year we won’t be so anti-social!