#10 You find lots of cool bugs!
#9 You get to try silly family portraits since no one else is around to take your photo!
#8 Even little guys get to sit by the fire (and look pretty tough!).
#7 Wonder Woman flies with much greater speed in the woods (so I’m told). 
#6 Muscles are stronger too in the woods, especially for throwing rocks!
#5 Mom and dad get lots of fun snapshots b/c kids are more happier than normal!
#4 You can still sit on the river’s edge when you’re fussing.
#3 You get to watch and smell the blueberry pancakes being cooked over a camping stove!
#2 You get to wade through riverbeds!
and last but not the bit least,
THE #1 REASON TO TAKE KIDS CAMPING!!…
If they’re throwing a tantrum, you can just stick em out in the rain and let them cry it out!
We had so much fun we’re going again in the next couple weeks!
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Oooh, camping!! Looks like a great time! I get to take Emma Girl Scout camping next weekend, and she is busting at the seams! Cant wait for your VH1 episode, we have been watching them the last few weeks waiting for Sept. 6 to roll around!!
Great photos – especially the one of Blaze in the rain
Hope to see you in L.A. if you’re going.
Wait… you can only stick kids out in the rain to have their tantrums while camping…? Oops.
just kidding!
Hey, that is a switch…doesn’t Blaze usually have the SUPERMAN stuff on??
Cute photos! I got your dvd yesterday and now I feel like I know you! I was not able to watch it with 100% attention last night, but what I did see was fantastic. I do have a question, and maybe this is addressed in the dvd and I missed it…
HOW DO YOU GET YOUR KIDS TO NOT ALWAYS LOOK AT THE CAMERA? I wanted to take a photo of my niece and mom cuddled up and reading Strawberry Shortcake and as soon as Lydia saw me with the camera she immediately gave me a BIG GRIN! Not exactly what I was after…but it is probably my own fault for always telling her to smile when I am taking her photo! How do you get your subjects to just continue with what they are doing without looking at the camera?
All of those a great Me Ra. But that last one of Blaze throwing a tantrum in the rain is THE BEST!! So funny! I’m looking forward to the VH1 show tomorrow!
Pete
those pics are fun & fabyoolous!
looks like yall had a ton of fun LOL 
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Thanks so much! We had the BEST time camping! It was a blast!
And Susan, great question! Kids are conditioned from birth to look at the camera and say cheese. Even if they aren’t talking yet, they seem to know what adults expect of them when the camera comes out. Best advice for changing this is to have the camera out all the time, and shoot from a distance to send the message of “I’m just loving photographing you being you.” Kids seem to get this and start to pay less and less attention to the camera.
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i enjoy camping specially in dense wooded tropical forests. camping is a fun way to spend time with your friends too.”;`
camping outdoors is one of my favorite, it is quite relaxing to be with friends.”`”