McKinney Falls State Park

Joshua took the week around 4th of July off and for the first few days we went camping. We stopped in on Brett and Sanda for the first night, visited and had breakfast at our favorite restaurant, Kerby Lane. Then we headed to McKinney Falls State Park.

The break from the Houston humidity and mosquitos was wonderful! We really got to enjoy some time outdoors, including the must-have camp fire.

So Trev chopped our wood...

And Em got the fire started.

The "Falls" at this state park are really cool. They make two swimming holes that campers and day trippers can enjoy. We would pack in our lunch and spend most of the day playing there.

Here's Joshua and the monkeys near the top of one of the falls. You can see the swimming hole past the cliff.

And here's a shot from the bottom side. Joshua and the kids were standing up there on the top of the cliff above, but now they're in the water and on the lower rocks. Em and Trev are on the rock and Joshua and Carter are swimming near one of the water falls, just to the right of Emilee. Some parts of the water were too deep to touch, and some parts had partly submerged rocks so you could swim up to them and then sit half in the water. It was really cool!

Trev and I playing near the waterfall...

And one of just me...

We went back to the top side of the falls one evening to fish. It was beautiful weather. I enjoyed sitting there reading a magazine and Joshua and the monkeys tried to catch something.

The boys fished a bit during the day too. Joshua and Trev caught a couple, but Carter kept reeling in fish after fish. He always does this and no one can figure out how lol!