Sunday, July 12, 2009

*Roughing It* Backyard Camping!

So Preston has been begging to have a campout as a family. Okay, truthfully I have been the one begging, but I put my friend Preston on the job of nagging Dad about it. Because Burke has been putting in such long hours at work, we were not seeing when we were going to get it done during the month of June (which is when I wanted to go) so we (I) finally settled for a backyard campout. It was soooo very fun!

Playing Hopscotch in the driveway while we were waiting for our dutchoven dessert to finish!


Roasting marshmallows over our very exciting "campfire"!


Preston just could not understand what we were doing with the marshmallows-- he kept lifting his up and nibbling quick bites and then holding the rest over the "fire"!


Me and my sweet baby girl :)


Burke and the kiddos set the tent up. We all squished into the tent and slept fairly well. It took about an hour for all of us to fall asleep together (which was pretty good considering!)

2 comments:

Marianne said...

These are the very best kind! We finally planned one in June but it ended up raining, so the tent went up in the basement instead! I can't believe how cute your kids are...they take after their parents :)

Valerie said...

Wow, so many posts! I love it! It all looks like you been having so much fun. I like the frogs and tha solar system is awesome! I've been wanting to try a campout too, you just motivated me more to be like you! :) You are such a great mom and we miss ya guys!