Our first day of camping was mainly a lot of working to get everything together, making sure we had camping sites close together (because of our size we had to get two sites), setting up, and eating and exploring the site area. Mistletoe State Park is a really nice park. We were close to the bathrooms (big convenience with eleven kids) and within walking distance to the lake. One of the couples, was even able to drive home to pick up some much missed items after the first night (mainly blankets and coats!). Here are pictures from the day:

Zoe and Nicole waiting anxiously to play in the tent. Our tent was never played in but the one that was resulted in three busted air mattresses! That ended the tent playing for quite sometime.

Liam wasn’t quite sure what was going on. While we set up our site, He watched in the wings.

A BIG Thank you to Grace who helped keep Liam entertained while we cooked, saw after other kids, and just visited. She was a big help and Liam enjoyed her company!

Zoe enjoying some delicious roasted marshmallows. Under our watchful eyes, she roasted the marshmallows herself. She’s like her mama and loves them scorched and on fire!

Craig takes a sniff of some kindling before starting the fire.

I believe we utterly confused some people. A lot of times the group would split up. Craig (who is married to Martha) and Missy (who is married to Hal) and I took all ten of the kids to the lake while our spouses hung out at camp when Liam was napping. We ran into one person who saw two women with a lot of children and one man. As we left the lake, we joked that he must have thought that Craig was married to both of us and that ALL those kids were ours! Okay, so maybe typing it out isn’t funny, but we thought it was.