We had a great time camping! We have a fun group of people in our ward and it made for lots of fun and laughs around camp.
We had a talent show. Easton and Paisley, accompanied by Dave, told jokes to the group as their talent. It was very cute! :)
We also had a pajama fashion show and smores. The kids slept well in the tent, even though we didn't get to bed until really late and got up pretty early. In the morning, the guys made breakfast for everyone. After breakfast, most of the kids made bottle rockets and were able to shoot them off later. That was a lot of fun!
The kids loved every minute that we were camping! I had a really good time, also. Dave has never had any desire to go camping. We did it once about 6 years ago, and haven't done it again. But, obviously this time he had a pretty good time. When we were talking to my parents later, he suggested that we all go camping sometime this summer. I was shocked that he would be the one to suggest that! So, I am very happy we went and hopefully it will lead to a few more camping trips in the future!
The reason why I was so busy this week is because I was packing, paying bills, cleaning house, returning library books, and all the things I had to get done before we left on VACATION! That's right! We are currently in good ol' Washington visiting Dave's parents. They moved here this year and so this is our family's first trip to this area. We have been excited all summer for this trip and we are finally here.
We left Thursday night and broke it up into two days. The trip was very long, but the kids actually did pretty well. We had the luxury of 3 DVD players on the trip and so they each got to watch their own movie. That definately made the trip easier.
We arrived Friday afternoon. Dave's mom had a nice dinner prepared for us for that evening. After dinner we took the kids down to a park that is right near their house. That was a great way to run off the cooped up energy from our long drive that day! The kids had a lot of fun!
This morning, we went to breakfast at a really good local restaurant. Afterwards, John and Shirley gave us a nice tour of the tri-cities area. We stopped at a Farmer's Market and bought some produce to make some homemade salsa tonight. We also stopped by a fantastic 12,000 square foot playground for the kids to play on.
There was so much for them to do. They could have played there all day! We will definately go back there before we leave.
Tonight we all watched a movie that we rented and just got the kids put in bed. It has been a really nice, relaxing day. I am looking forward to several more of these kind of days before we leave! It is so great to be away from our everyday lives and just focus on having fun together!! :) Thanks, John and Shirley, for letting us crash your quiet house! :)
4 comments:
Those are some really cute pictures. It looks like you guys are having a ton of fun just hanging out and being together. I'm glad you all made it safe!
Sounds like fun! You guys are always doing something fun! Hope you have a great trip!
Glad you're having fun! We were looking at the calendar last night planning our trip there. Looks like it probably won't happen until October. Drive safe!
Looks like you guys are having so much fun..Tell John and Shirly hi from us.. that camping trip looked like a ton of fun, I wish our ward did stuff like that..
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