Our first camp out with the kids!
Over the Memorial Day weekend we took the kids camping in the Santa Cruz mountains. We had a great time!!
We invited the Carmacks, Freys, Barlows, Pieronis, and Notleys. We arrived Friday night, set up camp, and then started a fire. We roasted marshmallows and had some left over hot dogs. The kids just roamed around and played with the 11 other kids. Lula was such a good girl. She did not roam off far and came back whenever I called her.
This little boy is Jared Frey, he is a week younger than Lula.
I thought the kids were going to stay up late, but around 8:30 Sam and Olivia said they were tired. So I took them into the tent and got their jammies on. It was a cold windy night, I was worried they were going to be cold. But it turns out they were fine. After we got the kids to bed Daniel and I went out to the fire and enjoyed talking to our friends and playing with the fire. The wood was wet, so it was a smokey fire. I love roasting marshmallows. I ate way too many. The Freys and Daniel and I had a great talk. It was finally time for us to sleep. I was warm and cozy in bed. I put in my ear plugs and went right to sleep. But Daniel, on the other hand, had a long hard night; he was cold.
Saturday morning we just hung out and talked. The kids ran around and played or would come to sit on our laps every so often.
Here is Logan Frey, Olivia, and Miles Carmack.
After hanging out for the morning, we all went on a walk to the playground. After we played at the playground for a while, Daniel took the baby back to camp for a nap. The rest of us went to the pond. While at the pond we found some salamanders.
We had a great time just sitting around watching the kids play. After a while everyone but us went back to get lunch. I stayed and talked to the kids and just messed around. It was such a wonderful moment for me. I love being a mom and love having time to tell my kids about life! Finally we decided to take the long way home and, on the way home, we ran into Daniel who came to find us. We talked and sang songs and just enjoyed each other. We took some great pictures on the walk back to camp.
Saturday night, I was in charge of dinner, we made tin foil dinners. I told each family to make their dinner into their own tin foil animal so the dinners would not get mixed up in the fire. We were the rabbit family. The only problem with that was that Chlover did not want to give her rabbit up. After dinner, we ate 2 frozen pies. My dad told me exactly how to cook them so they would not burn or still be frozen. It took a little extra work, but the pies turned out PERFECT. Daniel said one of the other dads said, "I have never seen pies cooked that way before!" Well, you can bet I felt pretty prideful about my pies!
This is Fiona Carmack and Lula, some people in our ward say they look similar. I see the resemblance.
Cute, but blurry!
As a side note, when we got home from camping, Daniel showed the kids youtube videos about World War II. Sam, of course, was interested in the bomber planes. Then some how they found a lego picture of a bomber plane. For the next 2 days Sam was working on creating The Perfect bomber plane. He did a really good job. Sam will sit on the table and search for the perfect piece. And now look at how great his plane is!
