Brown County State Park

With all of this great weather, we thought we should take advantage of it before the real heat sets in.  Tuesday night we headed south to Brown County State Park.  We only stayed overnight, but it was still great to get out.

Dustin wants a family picture every time we go camping so we can make a scrapbook.

This was the first time I've had to worry about a fire with Andrew.  He had to learn very quickly not to stick his hand INTO the fire.  :)

The simple joys of a lantern.

Exploring.

Waiting patiently for mom to open the graham crackers.

S'more time!

Andrew opted to eat his deconstructed.

I tried to get him to eat a bite of a gooey s'more, but he refused.  Oh, well, I tried.

After a not-so-great night's sleep (for many reasons), we woke up early and headed to the Nature Center.

Andrew loves flowers...

...and started to pick them (like mommy does on our walks).

We had to stop him at 2.

Inside they had a colony of honey bees.  It was so cool!  There was an opening so they could go outside and pollinate the flowers in the bed and then return back.

My little man!

Andrew loves being twirled around until he gets dizzy.

Hiking to Stahl Lake.

You can't see this, but there are literally 150 steps down.  Not fun going back up.

This sign says 1/2 mile, but we were pretty sure it was longer...or maybe it just felt like it.

Loving his daddy.

West Tower.

Peeking out the window.

My two favorite guys!

The Old Fire Tower.

Initially, we were going to go up, but after trekking the 300 odd steps at the trail, we decided that we would take a picture from down below instead.  :)