Del Mar Camping trip

We were so lucky to be invited by Lisa Finley and family to camp with them in the Del Mar military campground.  We'd never been before of course and since the Finley's are active military, they got first dips on the camping spots and secured spots 0 to 4 for all of us, right on the beach!  We got there late Friday and all the families had their own dinner plans.  But after everyone set up, ate and got the fire pit roaring, the kids settled down in front of this awesome beach theater!  We brought our wonderful collection of movies, courtesy of Papa Rick, and the kids had a blast!

The next morning everyone was up and working hard in the sand.  There were lots of kids since there were 5 families, I think the kids outnumbered the parents.  12 kids to 10 parents!

The girls got busy flying kites...

while the boys got busy digging a deep hole, for battle of course. :)

And the parents got busy with breakfast.  We enjoyed egg burritos, fruit and lots of champagne.  Here's Lisa and Matt popping open the bubbly!

Kids ate first and then we're off to play...

and then it was the parents turn.  Love the red cups!  From left, Matt, Leslie, Lisa, Jeff, Selvin, Kristen, Katie, and us!

Camping is truly one of my favorite things to do, and even more fun with you're with a great group of people. 

After breakfast, the military rode by in huge tanks so we had to get a closer look. The drove back by and went down to a large pond area where they were rocket the tanks into the water and turn on the jets and they'd float and motor around the water!  Ty thought it was amazing.  We had to ask both kids to put their hands over their ears since the military guys were doing a lot of yelling and scolding of their team, hard knocks life in the military! :)

Later in the day, Katie had organized some activities for the kids.  There was an egg hunt...

obviously she loved this....

and he loved the candy.

Katie also painted the back side of puzzle sets, two different colors, and then Garrett and I hid the pieces according to a list of clues Katie had made for each team.  The kids would gather the puzzle pieces and when they were all gathered, the team that assembled their puzzle first won! 

The kids loved this and it kept them busy for quite awhile.  After a delicious dinner, lots of drinks, laughs around the camping fire and a peaceful nights sleep, we all packed up and headed out the next morning.  I didn't even get a picture of Garrett on his birthday!  He was the birthday boy on Saturday and enjoyed his relaxing day.  What a wonderful camping trip!!!