Lake Somerville Camping trip

Last weekend, we went on our first family camping trip to Lake Somerville which is about 1.5 hours from Houston.  We went with the Rentfros and all had a great time.  The weather cooperated with us, except that it was a little warmer than I would have liked.  At least we only had one "rain drill" as we called it where we had to move all of our stuff  and take cover for 60 seconds while it rained on us!  Luckily it didn't last long at all! 



The kiddos - Cole had just wiped out on the concrete so he wasn't a "happy camper!"





The Knott's tent - glad we bought an 8 person tent the last time we camped (6 years ago)!



The Rentfro tent - 10 person tent with 2 rooms, porch, bathrooms, kitchen, family room...



We stayed on an Equestrian campsite which was fine and we had a great view of the horse who was at a neighboring campsite.  His name was George Jetson.  So many times during the evening, George seemed to let out his loud "Neighhhhhhhh" at just the right time and it seemed to always fit right into our conversation topic or scare us!  We got a laugh out of that!



The kids checking out George.  Reid would always run away from George with his hands over his ears b/c of the noises he would make!

This was suppose to be a stocked pond, but we never got one nibble during our visit...neither did anyone else that we saw.  Maybe it wasn't stocked afterall...



The little fishmen and woman!



Cooper relaxing by the campfire



Addison and Cooper had to teach Cole and Reid a thing or two - how to get their "Guns Up!"



Addison enjoying her smores!  Yummmmm!

I would call our first camping trip a success - it helps when you have 2 over planners like Ursula and me!  :)  The only downside was the amount of mosquito bites that Addison came home with - she had at least 25 on her face alone and probably over 100 on her little body!  We have been putting Cortizone cream on it and giving her a little Benadryl to help with the itching and swelling.  They are looking a lot better already!