Dad Tip of the Day: Camping Memories
Dad Tip of the Day: Create memories by doing special trips or experiences that your family will not soon forget, such as camping.
I can remember a large number of great family memories from my days growing up. One of the highlights was visiting a river house a handful of times a year. We also took some epic road trips from Michigan where we lived to California where most of our family lived, which pretty much took the whole month of December! Then there were fishing and camping trips that I will never forget… so many great memories!
As a dad, I now get to form these family building trips any way I would like. We have already started doing the same river house trips from when I was a kid, and this last weekend, I continued preparing the kids for future camping trips by camping out in the backyard!
My kids are still pretty young, so camping is a difficult thing when they have so many needs. There is no way I will be able to get my wife out there into the great wilderness until they are a bit older, but still, I want to get some practice in so we are ready! During last week, my son Jacob asked if we could go camping in the backyard, which we had done one other time before. Well, of course buddy, let’s do it!
We ended up pitching the tent in the afternoon and then hung out and played in the tent for a little bit. Kendra, who is 9 months old, enjoyed that a lot. We stayed outside and ate dinner in the backyard near the tent as well. It was fairly hot on Saturday, so we ended up passing on a bonfire this time, but Jacob has hung around those quite a bit already, so that was nothing that would have been unique. When the sun started going down, Kendra and my wife headed in for the night, and my son and I played some more, read stories with flashlights and then slept to the sound of crickets. Here are some pictures:
Jacob had a great time and has been talking about the fun time camping in the backyard quite often. I can’t wait until he is a little older and we can get out there in the woods for multiple days in a row!
Thanks for reading!
Brian
its really very good idea of every children.because this idea apply doing every child learning alots of new thing for enjoying moment.your child jacob very happy and enjoy this camping event. she playing alots with happiness and spending her best time with parents..you child kendra looks very cute..you really spend your best time with your children.very well done.take care yourself and best of luck of your great work.may god bless you and your happy family.stay live long alots of happiness.my dear friend. @brian.rrrr
Wow! great adventure. Good to see you sir with your happy family. Really Jacob and Kendra both are so lovely kids. Have a wonderful time sir. Thanks a lot for sharing your amazing moments with us.
I’m not a dad yet but I can’t wait to have kids because I adore them. One time I was on a train and every time one baby came on the other one went off and they looked at me the whole time and no one else. I mean it was creepy but cute.
Yeah It's all about building those memories!
We are going on an excursion down South for a while and the kiddos (17 and 20 years old LOL) are looking forward to getting away for a while!
Sounds like more memory building to me... have a great trip!
Great adventure. It's always nice to have a bonfire but that heat is coming from it will run you straight into the house for AC. I surely enjoy a fire with the kids tho
Oh Kendra is growing she looks much bigger besides she is starting to enjoy the moments this beautiful also Jacob
These are good times camping is something that we all want to do even big is something unique that is enjoyed and the experience is unique there are many stories and food this is good
Good night
Nice!! this brings back the vivid memories of the days when I was a kid growing up... the soccer and baseball tournaments, sleepovers with buddies and the quality play time with mom, dad and the family.
One day, I will be on your side of the river... with kids of my own
Time flies, enjoy it while we can
Cheers to the fam!!
Hi, how are you today? I like to read your tips are ta certain is the life of all camping is a goal that we must meet all we want to do even in the movies the main thing is usually camping make a campfire tell a little stories or sing
You are preparing Jacob and Kendra for when it's time for them to go out to a place outside the house and camp that is good. I hope you find yourself well @brian.rrr
Absolutely great and i want to say one thing that, the quality time spending with family is really important aspect because these are the days which plays vital roles in long term relationships and this increase the bonding in family members for sure.
And these pictures truly reflecting that you've spent amazing time with your family and i hope that these amazing journey will be continued and you will get many opportunities of camping in future.
In my opinion, i can say that these pictures are inspiring others to do the camping and other amazing travel stuff with family. And the greatest moment for us is when our family are happy and when we can feel their smile.
Wishing you an great day and stay blessed. 🙂
That's awesome! He's going to remember that for a long time. And hopefully it will make him want to get out camping more. I always loved camping with my dad when I was a kid. I would have been happy camping in the basement. Ha ha. Glad you all had fun.