We Went "Camping!"

One of the big jokes last year with our family was Joel planning a camping trip. He, my cousin Beau, and cousin Kyle went camping together. Let's just say it was an evening of camping on an illegal camp site (which they found out later), going home early to play video games, and eat pizza... 

He tried to plan multiple trips over the summer only to make all the preparations and not go. Something would come up or they couldn't agree on a spot to go. My family is definitely not one to let it go without teasing mercilessly over the following months. My cousin Chase got wrapped up in a family joke and his response was, "Of course it had to happen in this family! Now they will never let it go!"

This year we decided to make a stand and actually go camping!

Our first attempt... Camping in the backyard. Hey, that's a two year olds dream! We also wanted to see if the tent we got would hold up through out the summer. 

The evening started with tent flying. Or realistically, Joel and I trying to fly a kite for Liam only for him to stomp away yelling, "You guys never let me do my kite!" Hey kid, that kite was really hard to fly! Not to mention there wasn't a ton of wind and it was impossible to put together, but don't worry stomp off pouting after we spent thirty minutes tripping over ourselves attempting to fly your dumb kite. We finally gave in and said have at it even if it flies off. 

He thought he was the coolest two year old out there. 

At the end of our kite flying adventure, my one year old Levi walks over to me holding. my. camera. I ran over, inspected it, and didn't see any damage. Then I tried to take a picture... Something fell off inside my camera.

I took it out and it's still taking pictures fine, but I figure it was in there for some reason... The cheap side of me says keep taking pictures until it stops entirely and that's probably what I'll do. 

Levi LOVED the tent. He ran around and fell onto his back for ten minutes straight. As for the rest of the night? Well, let's just say Liam did great. He was worried about monsters for a bit and then grabbed his sword. That was enough to put him at ease. Levi on the other hand... He was up every hour. He's definitely not our best sleeper, but he's been sleeping through the night this week. He woke up every hour asking for water. I guess "camping" takes a lot out of you. 

Now, Levi and I are awake in the house and Liam and Joel are still sleeping in the tent. I'm pretty sure Liam is going to try and live in the tent along with my Survivor Man Husband. 

So. Are we ready for camping. Possibly everyone except for this sweet face.