Camping

Shea and I went camping a few times when we were first married and always really enjoyed it.
But we both know it is a lot different going as a whole family with young kids.
Connor loves camping so we wanted everyone to have a fun go at it.
Unfortunately with Syd's sensitive Collar bone, still healing; we knew she'd have to have a sleepover at the Martins instead.
So we took everyone up to Cunningham Falls, the place I used to go camping as a kid. It is pretty close and well taken care of.
We found a perfect camping spot, and began a search for firewood, which seemed a bit sparse but made it all the funner to go searching.

Piper was our biggest concern since she is so young. Fortunately she LOVED my pinterest hack and did great watching and playing on her own the WHOLE time!

Helping Daddy build the fire and enjoying
their new camping chairs Dad surprised them with!

The men putting the tent together.

Bella loved helping so much
she hated being told we had enough wood.

Fortunately she didn't stay mad long.

Tin foil dinners everyone got their fill
and we had way too much to spare. 

When it got dark Piper was wide awake still and finally ready to escape Mom's contraption.

So then we figured out a new one which worked perfectly for awhile. 

But then she just was ready to snuggle and fall asleep.

Connor's head lamp was very handy
 and he LOVED IT!

And Bella was all about the smores.

After smores we got sleeping arrangements planned, which was originally going to be Connor, Bella and Daddy in the tent and Piper and Mom in the car. We were worried the tent would be too small for everyone and I was worried Piper may wake everyone up. Ironically Piper and Dad slept in the tent great, and the kids begged to sleep in the car with Mom which got a little hot and Mom got very little sleep worrying about the rain and kids and everything. I never sleep well when camping honestly.

 

It was a great trip the only thing spoiled was the hike we had planned for the morning, which got rained out. But we planned it for a different day and went to pick up our sorely missed Sydney.