Growing up we used to spend 3-4 days in Emminence, MO at Harvey’s Circle B campground with all of my cousins on my mom’s side. It was awesome. We canoed two days, stayed in old drafty cabins, played cards at picnic tables with the grandma’s, jumped off Button Rock, ate awesome meals, caught crawdads and sang camp songs around the fire every night. It was what childhoods were made for and where so many of my favorite memories were made. By the time I’d hit college most of our cousins were married and starting families (Abbie and I were two of the younger cousins) and those trips just sort of petered out.

Until this year when my parents, my sister’s family and the five of us revived the trip!

BUT FIRST – let’s take a trip down memory lane!

My mom and sister texted me these tonight so they are iPhone pics of old photos which means the quality is worse then they really are BUT for all my cousins that might read this I just hard to start with some of these! They make me smile and bring back SO many memories!

My sister and I were laughing that I had “Santa Mouse” in June! That guy still comes out at Christmas around here!

SUE – if you’re reading this – I love you in that photo! And MAN I miss those three ladies – my Grandma, Great Aunt Daisy and cousin Jane.

Um. Yes. We had matching t-shirts. I have one hanging in my closet still. Makes me happy every time I run across it! And yes – I can’t do bangs! HA!

OK – so now that we’ve relived the early 90’s let’s see how our trip went! June 1992 meet July 2015!

(WARNING – there are a TON of photos….)

We started the trip just like we used to – with a stop at Maramec Springs.

Nothing has changed about this place in 20 years. Probably 50.

In this photo the kids are 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 (not in that order)!

Then we got to Harvey’s – which isn’t called Harvey’s anymore – just Circle B – which made Abbie and I so sad! So much has changed there but yet so much is still just the same!