Family Camp Out

Okay so we went on our usual family camp out this summer, and I am so happy to say that we had the greatest camp out ever!! I was really worried that it might turn out to be a huge disaster and that the kids would be miserable, but they weren't and it was great. James absolutely loved it. He was so excited to go that starting the week before we went he would ask me every day, "Are we going camping now?" He asked me this at least 100 times a day. And 2 days before we left he woke me up at 6 am completely dressed, with his bug catching kit in one hand and his camping chair in the other and said " I ready to go camping, are we leaving now?" It was so cute I was so sorry to tell him that he would have to wait a couple more days. However, the day eventually came and we had the best week ever.

We got the biggest camping site ever, seriously it was huge. That was perfect for us because the kids could just run around and do whatever and I could still see them and not worry. Harrison probably ate at least 20 rocks and a several handfuls of dirt, but I guess that's all part of being up in the mountains. He loved sitting in James' little camping chair. HE would scoot his little bum right into it and plop down and just chill for a while. It was super cute. James loved hlping ben get firewood, as you can tell from the picture. He was really proud of himself for bringing in that big piece of wood himself. He loved helping ben get the fire ready and then roasting marshmallows, but who doesn't love that? There were several squirrels that came to our campsite throughout the day and james gave them the name of jumpy squirrel. Whenever one would come over to the table James would shout "jumpy squirrel, jumpy squirrel!" It was fun.
We had planned to go on several hikes, but we enjoyed sitting around and going on "adventures" with James so much that we only went on one hike. The "adventures" we went on were, going up the dry river bed, go to the "castle" it was really just stage made out of rock, and looking for bugs. We caught a few ants, but that was all. I was a little worried about seeing bears because I guess they have had a few down there this year. One night I woke up and had to pee, but I surely did not want to take the long walk to the bathroom to do so. So I just hopped out of the tent and went in the nearby bushes. Suddenly, I heard a lot of crumpling bushes nearby and a very gruff growl/bark sound. Yeah, you can bet that I seriously just dove right back into the tent, zipped it shut, woke Ben up and told him there was something out there. Yeah I was 100% terrified. At that point James woke up and wanted me to go get him a snack. I told him to go back to sleep, nothing was going to make me go back out of that tent. Anyways, I can't think of much more to say about our trip except that it was exactly what we needed and that we just had a super great time.