Friday, June 3, 2011

Camping!







Phoenix and Rylee were holding hands for a little bit and it was, ahem, very cute.





So...yes....we did try camping for the first time in 3 years! The weather had been hot as hades all week, but we got lucky because it was actually kinda pleasant over the weekend. We went with our good friends. They have a girl Audrey's age, and a girl Phoenix Willy's age, the hubsy surfs like Travis and both me and the wifey are super cool ;-). I finally got to use those monstrous marshmallows that you can now buy. It took me a good 5 minutes to work up the courage to bit into my ginormous smore. The middle didn't get melty (so THAT's why you don't stick the huge mallows in the fire right away!). Next time I will try some more (or should I say s'more?) patience. Phoenix was kinda (majorly) freaked out by the idea of sleeping in a tent (or was it sleeping next to Audrey?). I decided to take him home, but the gates were already locked. So Trav and Audrey spent the night in the tent (I wanted to make sure that she got a good camping experience) and me and Phoenix stayed in the car. We both slept for about 3 hours (he kept waking up, so I would drive him around, then eventually he'd fall asleep for like an hour then wake up again). I am really glad that we went because it brought back so many memories that I had with my family when my Dad would take us camping. Those are some of the best memories from my childhood. We decided Phoenix probably needs at least another year for us to try camping as a family again, but I am really looking forward to when we can.

5 comments:

Wii are the Nelsons said...

Glad you had fun even though you didn't get much sleep with Phoenix.

Emily Bartlett said...

wow, i do not envy your sleeping arrangement with phoenix!

Ellett Family said...

Fun times camping! Hope that next time the little guy will at least sleep out of the car...

Kory said...

without the craziness, it would've been a really boring camping trip. :)

glad we got to go!

Megan said...

That is awesome. We LOVE camping but haven't taken Azely yet. I haven't adapted enough to camping in NC to brave it with the kiddos. I miss the Rockies. Glad you had fun. You can never go wrong when you're out with good friends.