Tenting – Blessings Multiplied

Thankful for a wonderful, relaxing, and fun weekend away with the family.

We had a great day swimming, biking, and playing at Sadlers Creek State Park near Anderson, SC. Our tent was surrounded by trees but we could still see Lake Hartwell. The first night we played card games until late at night and crashed. The second night we experimented by toasting smores, starbursts, twillers, and fruit chews over the camp fire. They were a fun camping treat! We wrapped up the second night at the campsite relaxing and sharing some of our favorite summer memories. We are blessed and so much to be grateful for in our lives.

Silly girls enjoying their time camping at the lake.

Brina’s favorite were the toasted twizzler bites!

Karlie’s toasted marshmallow!

The Toasted Starbursts were goey, crispy, and delicious! My favorite of the toasting “experiments”.

The Toasted Fruit Chews were a little harder to do because if you waited too long they would drop off your stick. The ones that survived the heat of the fire got great reviews from the kids!

The best way to eat a Marshmallow – completely crispy and toasted over a flaming fire! Yum!

A full day of family fun in the sun results in two sleepy kids!

Brina swimming in the lake!

Karlie’s got a collection of sticks, wonder what she’s up to now!

Brina splashing around in Lake Hartwell.

Karlie all smiles as she gathers her sticks for some fun!

Our weekend camping went by quickly. We had fun, relaxed, and spent time together. We biked, swam, played games, ate great camp food, laughed, and had a grand time creating memories. The girls decided after this weekend that we need to make camping a more regular activity because they enjoyed it so much. Thankful for opportunities to spend time together and create these precious memories.

Ready to unload the van and start camping!

Our family had a blast going camping at Sadlers Creek State Park this summer! It was the first out of the yard tent camping with just our family. The girls have been asking to go camping so we decided to do it! The Sadlers Creek tent camping area is near Anderson, South Carolina and almost all the tent sites overlook Lake Hartwell. It was beautiful, peaceful, and a lot of fun spending the weekend together. There was enough trees between the campsites you had some privacy. We ran into our friends from church the first night too! We biked everywhere and had fun swimming in the lake. There were two restroom facilities near us both with showers which was nice especially with the kids!

Once we arrived we biked everywhere. It was a great way to get around, explore some neat areas, and get some exercise! We biked to several different places that had sandy beaches, many of them were quiet with no other people around. After setting up the tent and camp area we picked out a couple of beaches we wanted to come back to the next day.