Spring Break...Girls Weekend!

My friends Britni, Heather, Carrie and I get together once a year for a girls weekend. We started this 6 years ago when I moved back home from Dallas and we haven't missed a year yet. I look so forward to it every year. This year we decided to go to Britni's family camp house in Paris...Paris, TX that is :) Maybe one day we will go to Paris...I can dream right! So far, none of us have had to cancel on the trip but this year Heather couldn't go. Her father-in-law passed away the week before the trip and she was way behind in home schooling her girls. She had been traveling to East Texas almost every weekend with her newborn baby and girls to be with her father-in-law when he was in the hospital. Needles to say she just couldn't make it work out and we all completely understood. She lives in Allen, TX which was on our way to Paris so we stopped by her house to visit before we went to the camp.

I was so excited to get to see Heather's little girl who is now 4 months old. I couldn't believe how alert and active she was.

Sweet Karah It's funny because we never bring gifts on girls weekend but this year we all brought gifts for each other. Last year, I had an idea to get pictures from all of our girls weekends and put them in a photo album that we can continue and one day when we are 80 look back at all our girls weekends. Britni gave us each a cute scarf and Heather gave us a set of silver measuring spoons.

Carrie, gave us a digital photo book last year of our girls trips and she knew about the photo album I was making. We both had the same idea but since hers was digital and mine was an album we both decided to do it. She is going to print us a digital one every 5 years that way we can have both. As you can tell we are all picture people!!

Heather, Me, Carrie, and Britni

After we left Heather's we went out to Britni's parent's house in Paris before heading to the camp to eat supper with them and to see her little boy.. Pierson. I haven't seen him since last year so I couldn't believe how big he was. He just turned 2 on March 5 (my birthday too)! I call him my little birthday buddy. We had fun watching him hit the tee ball and run all over the living room and back to home plate :) Britni commented that her parents would have never let them hit a tee ball in the house...funny how grand kids can get away with anything :)

Britni's dad and her husband Wade built walking trails and a deck in her parent's backyard for her wedding. It is so beautiful! We walked the trials and took some pictures while we were there.

Britni with her mom, dad and Pierson

Me and my birthday buddy

The walking trails

Fire pit

More trails....Wade and Britni's dad hand laid the stones for the trails

This is the deck that we danced on at Britni's wedding. She got married in her parent's backyard and then the reception was in the backyard and in this area with lights wrapped around every tree...it was incredibly beautiful! She told me while we were there that I could get married at her parent's if I want....I told her I might just have to take her up on that :) We will see!

After we left her parent's house we went to the camp house. Her mom's family has about 200 acres of land and her dad and uncles built the family camp house on the land out of reclaimed wood and material from old barns, buildings, etc.. I have been there once before but it was Carrie's first time.

We spent pretty much the whole next day riding 4-wheelers through all the trails and had so much fun. The weather was perfect...not too hot and not too cold. I love being outside in nature and the land they have is so pretty. There were wildflowers growing in the fields and we even saw several deer while we were riding. They just stood there and looked at us...I guess they knew we were harmless.

Carrie and Britni

We also rode the 4-wheelers into Tigertown where Britni grew up. The camp is actually in Tigertown which is about 30 minutes from Paris. This is a picture of the old store Britni used to go to when she was a kid.

In Tigertown we stopped by her Grandad's house. We had to take a picture on his big ole' John Deer tractor :)

Britni and her Grandad... Isn't he the cutest ever?

Britni helped him move some things out of his shed with the front loader to the back of his property because the weather channel was reporting bad hail that night and we were going to park my car under the shed. It ended up not even raining...you know it would have rained if we hadn't cleaned out the shed!

On Saturday, Britni's parent's came to the camp and brought Pierson.

All Pierson wanted to do was ride the 4-wheeler with Poppi

This is the view off the front porch of the pool (apparently, in North Texas they call ponds pools). Britni's dad said they knew a guy who moved there from South Texas and bought a house that came with a pool...he thought he was getting a swimming pool but it was really a pond :)I would have thought the same thing. We call that a pond or fishing hole.

We ate lunch one day on the pier

Inside the cabin

We slept in the loft area..there are 3 beds on one side and 3 on the other side

There is another bedroom downstairs

Front porch

I have always dreamed of having a family lake house and going to Britni's families camp made me realize just how much I would love a place like that one day. My brother and sister also want one and we have all said that in a few years if it is possible we want to look into it. I think it would be worth the investment to have a place where family can get together and just hang out and have fun. I would love to spend holidays and weekends there with my family and in the future have all of our kids there so they can spend time with their aunts, counsins, and grandparents. It would be a place to build memories and I pray one day my dream becomes reality. Britni's family is so blessed to have their family camp!

Since Heather couldn't come this time we decided to do another trip to the camp this summer. I am looking so forward to going back and getting to see them again. I could seriously live out there and just might not come back from the summer trip :)