Earlier this month we went up to Idaho to go camping with my family. I love camping. I grew up camping. And I recently realized that I've only been camping 2 (now 3 times) in the last 9 years. That is just wrong. This was Paige's first camping trip sleeping in a tent. We camped on the middle fork of the Payette River near Crouch, ID. We had a great campsite with the river close by. It was shallow enough that the kids played in it and could ride tubes down the little current. Paige loved having her cousins at her every command. Paige says her favorite part was sleeping in a tent. I loved it all.
Of course, I had to start the trip with a photo shoot. I told Paige if she let me do pictures when we first got there, when we were done, she could get as dirty as she wanted.
I love this picture of my brother carrying Paige across the river. He was helping her catch a fish. These fish only liked flies, so later he caught a few and let Paige reel them in. Once we got back to Boise she went fishing with Poppa at a pond and caught her first fist by her self. At least that's the story she tells me. I wasn't there, so I don't know.
Paige in her cousin's boat. She would ride down the current and then the kids would drag her back upstream to do it again. Oh, to have everyone do things for you. 
My nieces and nephew. Out trip was with my parents, my brother and his family, my sister's daughter, and us. My sister didn't come because she doesn't get along with the outdoors (really bad allergies, dirt, roughing it...) 
The first fish Paige reeled in with Uncle Brian.
It was great and far too short. Next year we will have to plan for a longer weekend. To see all the camping pictures, click here.
