Sunday, August 15, 2010

Gone Camping

We LOVE camping and we've gone a few times as a family this year, but this was the first trip where we remembered to bring our camera.
The Joys of camping for our family are:
1. the CAMPFIRE


Erik likes to see the fire "grow up" as he says and we love to cook foil dinners in the fire and of course roast marshmallows for....
2. SMORES

Can you see the enjoyment in Pawly's face? That was a good smore! He and Erik got a little wild with the water bottle-to explain the wet stains on his shirt.

3. the TENT
Erik LOVES playing in the tent!!! In fact the first time he went camping he spent 2 hours just playing in the tent.
4. FLASH LIGHT WARS!
In the tent, in the dark of the night, we have flash light wars. You're sure to hear some good sound effects, like "zoom, zoom and peuw peuw" as the lights collide on the walls and celing of the tent. It's good fun!

5. THE STARS
of course we don't have pictures of the stars, but that sure is MY favorite part of camping. We could see the milky way really well and thousands more stars than you never see in the city,
it's amazing!

6. PLAYING IN THE DIRT AND WATER
We were by a shallow part of a river and Erik enjoyed throwing rocks into the water. It was pretty chilly so I wasn't surprised that he didn't get all wet when we put his swim suit on.
Here he is figuring out the mechanics of this chair, I really do think Erik has an engineering mind, he LOVES seeing how things work, it's so fun to watch.

7. THE FOREST
This was a beautiful area! I loved how wooded it was.
It's so nice to sit by a campfire and sing songs, talk, listen to the river flowing, and watch the stars. I'm grateful for Heavenly Father's beautiful creations that are all around us.
His creations truly testify of Him.

Oh the fun doesn't end when you get home. Erik decided to entertain us by contorting himself into the legs of the chair. I thought he'd be stuck, but he wiggled his way out really easily to come to me to see his picture on the camera.

Can you guess which shoes Erik has worn the most outside this summer?
No his flip flops are not on in this picture, but his tan line is pretty drastic huh.

3 comments:

Delia said...

You too!? We went camping too. I love your hair cut Cassandra.

DaveyMike said...

Such a happy family!! Love it.

Nick and Jamie Balaich said...

Oh, man! This makes me want a smore real BAD!