Our CR8ZY Life: Camping with the CR8ZIES!

Well. We finally got out for our first and only summer trip with the kiddos. Took us long enough but man was it totally worth the wait. We had a BLAST! We booked the trip just shy of two weeks before and it was at a place neither of us had ever been so it was a good new place to venture up to!

Lets start at the beginning of the trip!

Woke up the day of the trip to some texts from my bank and apparently I had some fraudulent charges that didn't immediately trigger anything because..HELLO! My ATM Card was in my car. But. Wait. Oh.Crap. My car was in front of the house and these charges were online which means. Uh. My car was broken into? Oh. Nope. I left the damn thing unlocked in the midst of all the camping chaos and it just so happened to be the night someone decided to bother messing with it. Classic. We were now starting our camping trip minus the $350 that I had stored in the glove box just for camping and gas for the next week AND we were starting off much later because we got to do the following...

Call the places that the card was used to see if there was any delivery details
Stop by the address itw as to be shipped to in order to give the people the benefit of the doubt and make them aware that a police report was going to be filed
File a police report and the PD in Suisun
Close my bank account and open a new one as my checkbook had a missing check also

After all that was done, and I reminded myself that I do not live in the nice middle of nowhere country anymore and cannot be so naïve as to leave my doors unlocked we got to pack up the cars.

This went pretty quickly and by now the kids were ready to be on our way and quite frankly. So was I. We then looked up the weather and would you believe. It was set to be 15 degrees warmer than what we planned. If ever I felt like signs were pointing to the fact that we needed to stay home, these were there. Haha. Regardless, Jared kept me motivated, he sang his praises of excitement even if they were somewhat sarcastic and off we went.

2 cars. 6 kids. 2 already tired parents.

We made a quick (kinda) stop at a store closer to our campsite for the final things we needed as well as the things we forgot in the freezer. Oops! I got to see which direction we would go if we went to see Jareds dad and then FINALLY we were only 30 minutes away and the kids were getting super excited.

We checked in, we saw our spot, we got sort of bummed because the lake was so low and the water was not near us, we tried to change our spot and got denied and finally we decided to just roll with the punches and set up our campsite. Whilethe kids sat there. And stared at us. No. Seriously. If they weren't staring at us there were asking us when we would go swimming and telling us there was nothing to do all the while we were just trying not to grab the cooler full of beer and lock ourselves in the truck while letting them fend for themselves. Haha.

We got camp set up. We got them in their bathing suits, we blew up some rafts and we headed out for a night swim. It was great. It was finally feeling like a vacation and after a couple hours we headed back to our site and that is pretty much how the rest of the trip went.

Wake up
Eat
Swim
Play
Complain
Eat
Sleep
Repeat

We did get some yummy meals in, we did get to play in the sweet raft we bought, we did get to taste some of the yummiest and most GIANT scoops of ice cream ever. I mean. Seriously. It was like a mountain of ice cream for 2 bucks and it was awesome! We also got to shower on the second to last night and more importantly. We got to disconnect from the internet, phone calls, texts, social media, work and real life and just focus on each other and the memories we were able to make. It was seriously awesome. I have never felt so at peace with all of us than I did this weekend. I mean. After all the chaos at the start of the trip of course.

Now without any further delay and because I know pics are much b