Working on the Mesa...

  We have reserved site# 18 the week of September 18-24 at Grayton Beach State Park in Florida! So we have a lot to do to get the camper in order for a week-long camping trip. 

I started by painting both bed ends gray instead of white.

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My sister's boyfriend came over and figured out how to hook up the light and fan for the first time ever!

Both of which, I finally spraypainted white.

We bought a microwave a while ago but think it would be cool to keep it above the fridge while we're camping. It fits almost perfectly!

Skip, my sister's boyfriend borrowed the rivet gun from his work and helped Michael install the new bed end corners.

Then came a BIG one...I hadn't planned on replacing the windows. I was curious, but it looked hard. So I googled and researched. I found 1 tutorial and tried it out. It worked! So I am in the process of replacing all of them.

A very cloudy before...

 A very clear after!

Many more projects to come! We still have weatherstripping, countertops, touch-up painting, fridge install, curtains and hopefully flooring.

Camping with family!

Michael asked off for Sunday and Michael's parents invited us to camp with them at Shoal Creek so we finally got to camp again! I told my sister about it and she decided to come last minute with her kids & boyfriend too.

We were way too busy having fun-setting up camp, making a fire, roasting hot dogs & marshmallows, swimming, fishing & laughing to take pictures. 

I did manage a few with my iPhone.

We used our portable AC for the first time. It had a hard time keeping up with the 95 degree temps. I suspect that it was due to our camper not being airtight though. Remember how we have to keep the electrical door open to plug 'er up? That leaves a HUGE hole and our bed end corners are broken so we can definitely see daylight through them. Not to mention our pitiful weather stripping... We actually have a electrical cord outlet for the door so it doesn't have to open anymore, we just haven't installed it yet. And we have new bed end corners, but again we haven't installed them yet. The weather stripping is a cheap, easy fix...I guess we just haven't been too excited to work on the camper knowing we can't camp for awhile.

Passed out pups...

So we weren't exactly prepared for the heat, but we had fun anyways!

And the best surprise ever?!? My sis & bf came inside our camper to tell us goodbye Sunday night and shared with us that they are expecting!!!! I'm sooo excited to be an Aunt again!

Camping at Old Federal on Lake Lanier

Rain was forecasted for this weekend but we decided to camp anyways. This is a busy park so we had to make reservations a few weeks in advance. 

It was nice Friday night a lot of people were out walking, kids playing etc. We had another pull-through site and an even easier set up-we're getting better at this!

Our electric hatch has to be open in order to plug the camper in so we used trashbags to keep the rain out.

Saturday there were scattered showers. Breakfast was egg, cheese & turkey bacon sandwiches. We walked when it wasn't raining and went to check on my new work building when it started to rain heavily. We stopped for lunch at Zaxby's and brought some food back to my coworkers.

The rest of the day we hung out in the camper watching movies. 

The storms got pretty crazy that night, with lightning all around too. We left early Sunday morning because they were calling for more storms.

Camping By Ourselves!

My husband got a new schedule at work, he will be working Fri/Sat/Sun all summer so we won't be able to camp much--so we decided to go ahead and take advantage of his weekends off right now. Even if it's still pretty cold at night, it is nice during the day.

Shoal Creek campground on Lake Lanier is about 5 miles from our house so we deemed it to be the safest place to spend our first camping trip without friends. We could easily run home if we forgot or needed anything! Camping here is expensive ($48/night lakefront) but really convenient. 

We got here pretty soon after work, pulled into our pull-through site (love!) and set up in less than 30 minutes.

We were right on the water, it was beautiful at sunset!

We put some chili in the crockpot but it took a very long to begin to get warm so we microwaved it and then watched a movie and went to bed.

In the morning we let the dogs out and cooked breakfast--egg, cheese & turkey bacon sandwiches, a camping tradition for us.

We walked the dogs to the bath house and laid in bed most of the day.

Michael's dad came by and took us out in his boat for a sunset cruise.

The view of our camper from the water.

Because it was pretty cool weather there weren't many boats out, the water was very peaceful.

Great sunset...

Later we grilled some turkey sausage and made mashed potatoes and peas in the microwave. Michael's dad made us a bonfire and we made made some s'mores. We slept in on Sunday and left at a leisurely pace.