Camping

Jayden really, really, really wanted to go camping for his birthday.  We pulled him out of school a little early on Friday to make it that much more exciting for him.  This is sad to admit, but this was our first family camping trip.  Not being from the south, every year we thought about going, it was either too hot in the summer for us north blooded folk, or I was sick and pregnant, or we had a baby, or the excuses just kept coming.  Josh and I both love camping, but whatever, we just never went.  So we couldn't pass up 75 degrees on a November weekend.  It ended up being a lot of fun, and we were freezing at night, but we got to enjoy our first hot chocolate of the season. So much fun, we can't wait to go again.  It was really hard to come back to reality.  Jayden's only requirement for where we went was that we had to go fishing.  We had a place picked out with a waterfall and a 500 year old tree, but the day before we were supposed to go, it down poured and left the park under 5 feet of water.  So we found another place.  The kids looooved fishing.  We didn't catch anything, but they loved it anyway, and can't wait to go again. All pictures of fishing are on Josh's phone. They loved campfires, making s'mores, bedtime stories in the tent, and exploring the forest. Tanner was a champ.  He loves the outdoors.

Jayden called this the Mario stump, and was spinning around down into it.