I absolutely do not love the drive to Fort Bragg, but I love Fort Bragg. Camping in Fort Bragg over Labor Day weekend has occurred in Josh's family for years. Josh remembers going all the time as a little kid. These last few years it hasn't been a set vacation, but I think there are a few of us that want to make this vacation happen every year.
Joel holding Mckinley, Kevin, Brady
Quite a few of us arrived Thursday early evening. We got camp set up and were able to have tin foil dinners. It's always a little cold in Fort Bragg, but its not terrible.
Thomas in the baby seat, Liz, Maddy, Ella, and Jaydn
We had I believe 5 different camp sites. 3 of them were right next to each other. The other two were just a few sites down. It works nice having a site or two a little ways away from main camp for those families that don't want to be woken up super early by all the little kids.
Joel holding Mckinley, Josh, Brady, and Mom
The nice thing about it being a little cold is that we had a fire just about the whole time. It was fun to sit around the camp fire and just chat and hang out.
Cousins enjoying a snack together.
Madalyn, Marlee, carter, Brinlee, Olivia, Ella, and Payton
Game playing. This family loves to play games.
Mom, Joel, Ryan and I think Brady
Jaydn and Carter in the water
Going to Sand Dollar beach is always a blast! It was cloudy on Friday when we went, but Saturday was beautiful and perfect.
Marlee and Brinlee building sand castles
Elle filling her buckets
The game of ultimate frisbee
Payton and Carter playing in the water!
Ultimate frisbee is a lot of standing around and trash talking to each other
After playing and getting all sweaty hot the guys all lined up and ran into the water!
Joel, Braden, Bryce, Sean, Josh, Brady, Ryan, Kevin
The water was really cold!
Marlee and Payton covering Carter in sand
Carter all sandy!
The tunnel to secret beach!
Josh and Scarlett out near the water.
Shaelyn playing with Ella and Scarlett
Mckinley just hanging out in the car after a diaper change
Glass beach is always fun and super warm!
Josh and Scarlett testing out the water, and Sean with his girl friend Kylie
Squirrels, Squirrels and more Squirrels...
these animals love eating food from people. They are all over the bushes. Of course our kids had to feed the squirrels. They loved that they would eat right from their hands.
Payton made this trail of cheetos for them to eat.
Everyone just chilling and relaxing on the beach.
Tide Pools! Always a hit!
Scarlett showing me how strong she is by picking up this rock.
Scarlett and Josh looking for things
The group across the way
Scarlett as you can see did not do a ton of walking on her own. Josh carried her a lot. I had Mckinley in the front carrier and she was a really good girl. Payton was a big boy and was off exploring with Jaydn most the time. He is getting so big. It's weird that I don't really need to help him or worry about him too much.
I am waiting to get a lot more of the pictures cause Liz has them on her camera. Once I get those I will post more. The weekend was a blast. We had an amazing time. Payton and Scarlett loved playing with their cousins non stop. By night time they were passed out. Taking the kids bikes was the best idea ever. They rode their bikes non stop. Josh and I were able to relax and enjoy the family because Payton and Scarlett were so good at just playing and we never had to worry about where they were. Mckinley was an excellent baby. She did get held the whole time, but it was fine. We look forward to next year.
