THE WILD LIFE: Twins 1st Fall Camping Trip

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Twins 1st Fall Camping Trip - Penns Creek

We've been wanting to take the twins camping as babies and finally decided to take them on a whim to one of my favorite places on the planet - Penns Creek.

It was a lot to throw together late Friday night for a one night camping trip, but I'm really glad we pulled it off once before they turned 1 (in less than a week!)

I could write a whole page on the page on how special Penns Creek is to us, so needless to say, it was extremely important to bring Jack and Clara and get them right in the water!

We got there Saturday afternoon, set camp up and a little hike in their new baby backpacks - a major upgrade to those Bjorn chest things. The twins did just great and love everything about camping including romping around in the tent with Mama and chilling outside and trying to eat leaves and play with pine needles that fell into their pack and play.

Baby friendly camp site

Saturday night was not exactly how I drew up in my head. Part of the reason we decided on going was the 0% chance of rain and stellar October weather we had. I should know that in this valley anything goes...so as I was getting the campfire going, a major thunderstorm rolled in. Picture Spencer in the tent with two hysterical babies while I ran around organizing camp in the pitch dark with a head lamp, grilling steaks and potatoes in the downpour while getting soaked to the bone. It was a pretty stressful hour, but the thunderstorm rolled out and the babies finally fell asleep. Mom made her S'Mores and I drank an IPA - we had survived.

Sunday was an amazingly beautiful fall day. At one point on the stream I found myself completely lost in just watching the leaves fall and was filled with so much joy. I've been going to Penns for years now, but this was my first time in the fall and first time with the twins.