It's All About Making Memories: Camping Lake Casitas

June 24, 2011

Camping Lake Casitas

After Sacrament Meeting on Sunday (Father's Day) we headed out to Lake Casitas for a 3 day camping trip. It's just inland a tad bit from Ventura and close to Ojai. We had planned to rent a Pontoon boat to do some fishing, but after finding out it was $175 for 5 hours that plan went quickly to the wayside. This was Haley's first camping trip and she did great! Although, she must have been a little stressed out because she got a bit backed up and we had to feed her canned pumpkin to start up her system again. Other than that, though, she was a dream.

Mainly, we just stuck around camp entertaining ourselves, but Kirk did take Justin and Avery fishing a few times (this was always Devin's punishment for whatever he was doing wrong, so needless to say he never went, poor guy. He's been having a rough time with school being out and his schedule interrupted). They had a really fun water park that we enjoyed on our last day. It had a lazy river, which was the kids favorite. It was a very fun time!

Playing around our campsite...

Kirk trying to rewire our new "happy lights". No luck, but I did a little finagling and was able to combine our old ones with our new ones so now we have all the pretty colors. It's the little things that make me happy. :)

Lake Casitas -

Visiting ducks - always a fun time

New ginormous marshmallows!

So messy, but oh so good!

Our favorite time of day - campfire time. Time for "Guess who I'm thinking of", stories of when Kirk and I were young and scriptures...and of course smores.