A couple weeks ago we decided to try out camping as a family! We are kind of rookie campers and so decided to only go for one night. We invited our friends, the Bass family to come along with us. We drove a couple hours away to Payson, AZ and loved the campground we stayed at. It was beautiful and had close bathrooms.
The men got the tents set up while Aubrey and I went exploring with the kids. Our boys found a tiny pond and preceded to throw rocks and pine cones into it for practically the whole trip! They were entertained with just that!
Kensley decided to start walking full time on this trip
3 out of the 4 kids watching as the men start the fire. Kensley was probably off walking somewhere
Our tent! Kensley loved going in, out, in out.
While we were all getting dinner ready we hear Austin from inside the tent say "I'm ready for bed!" We come inside and he had found his pillow, blanket and the lantern and set it all up. Very cute! I had to get a picture. If you ask him what was his favorite part of camping he will say sleeping!
Hanging out by the campfire while dinner was cooking. Jared made us some awesome tin foil dinners. They really were so yummy.
The tall pines at our campsite as the sun was going down.
Of course S'mores were made...
When it was time for bed we read books by the campfire and then tucked them in. For the most part they went to bed pretty good! We were worried about that. It was also freezing at night! It got down to about 40ish at night. We borrowed a tent heater and left it on all night because it was so cold. I was so worried my kids were cold that I got up a few different times in the night just to make sure they were warm and that the heater did start a fire in our tent.
Our morning started at about 5:30 with kids getting up. We started another fire and got some breakfast going. We mostly hung out by the fire trying to warm up. We underestimate how much firewood we would need so we were burning anything just to keep up our fire! The kids played more and then we took them on a nature walk while the guys packed things up.
One last group shot minus Aubrey who was taking the picture.
2 comments:
Cute! Hooray for Kensley walking non stop now. My only worry about camping is the whole sleeping bit too, glad the kids did well. Your post makes me want to brave it too.
So cute shan! I especially love the one with Kensley climbing out of the tent! I appreciate blogs so much more now since starting my own.
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