I hope you guys all had a fun fourth of July. We sure did. I actually survived my first camping trip with 2 kids! On thursday night we headed to Punderson Park with about 6 families from our ward. We set up camp, had tin foil dinners, roasted marshmallows, and the kids all had a blast running around and playing. Their favorite game to play was "wake the sleeping princess." One of them would fall on the ground and play dead and then the others would come and try to wake the princess up with a kiss. We had a few good laughs at their "make-out" sessions before we said no more kissing. Then they started playing "take me to the hospital." One of them would fall on the ground and say "I'm hurt and I've got blood. Take me to the hospital." Then the rest of them would run over, grab an arm or leg and carry the person to the hospital. seriously, where do they come up with these things???
That night we got maybe 3 hours of sleep. It was quite miserable and yet I find myself asking "when can we do it again?!" Andrew WOULD NOT SLEEP! we tried everything to no avail. He finally fell asleep some where between 4 and 5 a.m. Luckily he didn't cry too much. He just crawled all over us and kept grabbing my ears and saying "wiggle wiggle wiggle." Our neighbors left some food out on the table and a darn raccoon keep raiding their food. The raccoon got a bag of chips ahoy and carried that thing around making tons of noise for what seemed like an eternity. You know how noisey those plastic containers are inside the bags. it totally echoed through the camp. Our other friend's little girl had a really rough night too. we felt so bad for them. She woke up and wouldn't stop crying so the Dad drove her home at 4a.m. and came back the next day.
On Friday we went to the beach...nice sand, really gross lake, so we headed back to camp and played games and hung out.
We roasted hot dogs and decided we were really tired and didn't want to risk another bad nights rest, so we packed everything up. A few families were going to stay the night again, but decided to leave also. We all left around 9:45 and went to the fairgrounds to watch the fireworks. the kids loved it and it was ton of fun. Drew kept saying "Whoa!"
We roasted hot dogs and decided we were really tired and didn't want to risk another bad nights rest, so we packed everything up. A few families were going to stay the night again, but decided to leave also. We all left around 9:45 and went to the fairgrounds to watch the fireworks. the kids loved it and it was ton of fun. Drew kept saying "Whoa!" On Saturday we spent the day at Pioneer Land and water Park. They have water slides, pools, miniature golf, batting cages, and a bunch of other activities. Another fun-filled day, but boy am I tired!! Too much fun for one weekend. I must be getting old.
***I was too scared to bring my camera so I'll steal some pictures from my friend's blogs after they post them! :)
