While we’ve held many titles in my life, our favorite will always be Mom and Dad. When our two children were young, we wanted them to experience the wonder of nature. That’s why we embarked on our first family camping trip when our daughter Maggie was only six-months-old. Though she would have been too young to remember, it’s a memory we’ll never forget.

We escaped to the mountains and rented cabins every summer after that. We can still hear Maggie’s giggle. We can still see her smiling ear to ear with a marshmallow stick in hand. If we could travel back in time, those are the moments we’d choose to relive; Our young family around a campfire with sticky fingers and a sense of innocence floating through the summer air.