Last year I promised Emery and Kelci that we would have a cousins camp out in our backyard this summer. It would be the first one of it's kind and we were so excited about doing it. My kids were so excited about it and kept talking about it all week. Jeannette came up and stayed the night with me and all the kids and all nine of us slept in this tent.
I surprised the kids Thursday night by asking Grandma and Grandpa to come and help out with the campfire. They did a great job, Grandma taught the kids a song (which they are still singing all the time). Grandpa took them on a treasure hunt looking for dollar bills....I'm still looking for the $100.00 bill he told me he left back there. Than of course we roasted marshmallows with fudge stripe cookies (a new tradition I think we should keep...thanks Jenna)
Some of the highlights included:
~Jeannette rolling around in her sleeping bag in the living room trying to make sure she wouldn't get tangled up in the night.
~Me doing the centipede out of the tent at 5:30 in the morning so that I wouldn't wake anybody up.
~Tyler falling asleep first.
~The kids resorting to just blasting eachother on the trampoline with water because the slip and slide broke and the water balloons wouldn't blow up.
~Jeannette and I screwing up the song that Grandma was trying to teach the kids, I was never any good at "rounds".
~Lastly the kids expressions while roasting marshmallows was priceless, it was the first time for a few of them.
The next day we hung out and played in the water, painted picture frames, and made some t-shirts. I'm so glad that we decided to do this, I'm already thinking of some ideas for next year.
4 comments:
I love this idea! You are so fortunate to be able to see your family so often! And, I can just see you trying to worm your way out of that tent at 5:30 AM!
Thats fun! I love all your pictures:)
ONe question........Is that really what Ron would wear camping? jk Im glad you guys had a good time. It's a neat little tradition you can start and continue year after year. Or at least to the point where you and Jeanette don't have to sleep in the tent with them right?
That is a fun idea. I am not much of a camper myself these days, but this summer, on the fourth of July, when we were in SoCA with my in-laws and cousins the kids slept out in a tent with one brave adult (not me). Luckily my kids stuck it out. But then they were all up at 5am running around and screaming in the house!! You guys got really into to it though. Fun!
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