Camping

This weekend we went on our first family camping trip with the boy scouts. I loved being in a troop environment, it makes you feel much safer since there are so many people there that you know. (Of course the ever paranoid mother I STILL hardly slept and had every safety prep that could be had.)

We had a great time around the fire. We even had fun in the rain when we all had to pile in together. We had a really cool grilled cheese maker so we were able to have hot grilled cheese for dinner and we brought jiffy pop popcorn stuff that pops in the bag.

All day Saturday the boys worked hard; first piling up the wood, then making it a fort and finally tearing the whole thing down.

We went hiking and learned how to use a compass, we played badminton, and even went on nature walks and hikes. I had to carry my 5 year old all the way back from one of our treks, luckily he doesn't weigh a whole lot.

This morning when we were packing up we saw the worlds largest spider web, and it had a really pretty spider too. It turns out that it was only a yellow and black garden spider but it was absolutely beautiful, who says that the ordinary can't be gorgeous?

I really enjoyed being out of reach of the rest of the world. I did allow the baby to have a few minutes of DS even though we were not allowed to have them, but he had a terrible run in with a bee the morning that we were packing the stuff up (his first bee sting) so he was a little terrified when we first got there.

We did our bible verses by the light of the propane lamp and continued our reading of Peter Pan, it was magic and will be going in our "memory box" (its an index card container that we fill with our favorite memories)