Camping at Hoop Lake

This year over labor day we went camping with Corey's family up at Hoop Lake. This is a lake that his family used to go to when Corey was little, but they hadn't been for quite awhile, and Corey was pretty excited to go back up there. I was just excited to actually go camping this year since our earlier camping attempt over my birthday was unsuccessful. The weather ended up being perfect and Raylee was in seventh heaven up there with all those rocks.

This kids had lots of fun painting rocks a couple of different times. It was quite the mess but kept them entertained for quite awhile.

Corey's brother and brother in law brought up four wheelers which were of course a huge hit. The kids had a blast just playing on them in between rides.

Corey was really sweet and offered to get Raylee asleep for her nap every day, although I'm pretty sure it was just an excuse to take a few naps himself :).

Some people came up to go horse back riding and were nice enough to let Raylee check out their horses. She was very nervous and wouldn't even pet the horse so when the people offered to let Raylee have a ride we thought we had better not since it would probably end up with a lot of screaming.

And what's a camping trip without fishing? The guys went fishing as much as they could and caught tons of fish.

The highlight of the trip was definitely when Raylee reeled in her first fish. I don't think she really knew what she was doing until the fish actually came out of the water.

I of course wanted to get a picture of Raylee with her fishie, but when Corey was holding it up by her she just kept grabbing it. Yuck! There was lots of hand washing after that!

We stayed for four nights which is the longest time I have been camping in a long time and it was tons of fun! We will definitely be heading up there again!