Tyler's First Campout

We decided it was time to take Tyler camping... so we packed up the dogs and took off for Lake Merwin. We intended on staying 2 nights, but cut our trip short due to a minor pad laceration of Penny's foot. (she's fine now thanks to my incredible first aid skills) It was also FREEZING cold and raining, some more reasons to come home :) We had a true "Oregon" camping experience... rain, mud, snow and a tiny bit of sunshine. We had a great time regardless and were glad we made the trip!

First things first... get that fire built! It was nice when we arrived so Jason got right to work chopping wood and kindling for our fire.

Tyler and I watched :)

Dad and Tyler after a nap... I swear he has more pajamas than just this one!

We had some visitors... Mike and Eric were doing some work on their site and they stopped by to say hello and of course, like we always do at Merwin, stand around the fire.

After we put Tyler down we realized there was just one dry area left where we could drink beer and talk... (Tyler was asleep inside) only problem was it was pouring rain and 36 degrees. Jason and Troy made an emergency trip up to Troy's place and brought back some space heaters. We huddled around the heaters and had some beers. Troy made a call to the local bar where Tanya Harding (yes the knee whacking, used to skate at Clackamas Town Center Tanya Harding) often frequents to sing karaoke, and it was confirmed by the bartender on speaker phone (for proof) that she does in fact karaoke there but was not in that night.

Marcus and Penny had a blast! They were very tired after a day of tearing through the woods.

Saturday morning we woke up to snow! We had breakfast and then jumped in the car and headed up to Troy's place. The snow was beautiful!

Troy needed to stop at the office for 3 minutes, 5 tops and while we were there some deer wandered up to say hello.

Troy offered an empty hand...

When we got back, we made another fire and started roasting our marshmellows for S'MORES! YUMMY!

Tyler kept nice and warm.

On our way out we were going to stop and take a picture and we found some more deer there. They walked right up to the truck... even sniffed my hand (carefully covered by my sweatshirt)

Until next time... Lake Merwin