Our First Camper Trip [Chicot State Park]

 I haven't updated my blog in forever... but this felt necessary to document... because, WE GOT A CAMPER. We started tent camping this past year and truly loved it but that only made us (ME!) want a camper more than before... haha. So we finally decided to get one and we are HOOKED. 

I've been waiting to recreate this picture!! 

We broke it in this weekend with friends at Chicot State Park! We tent camped at Chicot in October, so it felt like the perfect place to try out our camper for the first time! Also, Nehemiah found a new boudin spot last on our first trip to Chicot, so we had to hit that up again!

First thing Saturday morning this crew headed out into the woods! 

Sweet baby Dayne!!

We also got to celebrate Cora Jane turning 6 years old!!! Camping for your birthday is a big deal! She asked for a rainbow birthday so that's what she got!! 

The sweetest birthday crew!!

She wanted a telescope for her birthday! She was so excited when she opened it!! 

Everyone wanted to snuggle Dayne!

Dying Easter Eggs!!

Sweet baby played with her telescope all weekend!

Sweet girls in their matching chairs! 

Luke wanted in the picture too! 

Luke and Cora playing with their window clings in the bunkroom! Also, everyone had to take a mid day shower before they could nap and I learned that I didn't pack enough play clothes! haha They played hard and stayed dirty! 

Sweet girl with her birthday table!

Daddy & Cora playing with her telescope!

The dads took the kids on a walk and I went to find them and literally found them in a huge hole... lol... they were all having a blast! 

Luke was in heaven exploring!

Ella's shoes got stuck in the mud! lol

Cora and Drake taking a walk!

Getting ready for our Easter Egg Hunt!

Drake, Cora, and Emme on a walk! 

Painting rocks!!

Luke's snail!

Family pic at the camper! 

Cora found this lady bug on the kids trail and wanted to take a picture for her teacher who LOVES ladybugs! 

Sweet girls!

Ellee carried Cora all weekend! lol

Constantly being silly! 

Looking at Lake Chicot!

I love this picture!

Sweet Emme!! 

The last time we went camping together, our family stayed in our tent! This time we stayed in our camper!! Dreams do come true! haha 

Super thankful for The Smiths! We can all roll with the craziness of 7 kids and we can ALWAYS find the humor in the absolutely mind blowing scenarios that we get into with SEVEN kids between us! haha 

We all woke up on Monday morning ready to book the next trip! LETS GO!!!

One of the funniest moments of our weekend was when some sweet person gave our crew THREE glowsticks... but we have SEVEN kids... So if you know you know... that was a problem! Literally all of them were screaming for a glowstick and Kaitlyn looked at me and said "What do we do?!" I said "We go give them back!! We tell her we have SEVEN KIDS and you only gave us THREE GLOWSTICKS!! You tried to bless us but it backfired!" HAHA we were joking but honestly we wanted to go give them back! LOL Kaitlyn added glowsticks to the camping list real quick! haha

We can't wait to make many more memories!!!! Our kids are so excited and Nehemiah and I are so thankful that we get to make such sweet memories while our kids still want to! lol

We all decided what our favorite parts of our weekend were:
Ella- being with her friends and riding bikes

Cora- getting her telescope and celebrating her birthday

Luke- playing in the big hole 

Nehemiah- learning about our camper and the setting up/breaking down process

Courtney- drinking coffee and camping with friends

We have a ton of places we want to go camping but we do have a goal of staying at all of the Louisiana State Parks! laissez le bon temps rouler!