That's what Luke's been singing all weekend...feeling bad about his little push that sent Elise biting the asphalt at our ward camp-out! The band aid is covering the scratch, but it was pretty big. She cried and cried and cried...until twizzlers were offered, then she was better! :) Candy always seems to do the trick for Elise!
So yeah, our ward camp-out was last weekend, and we had such a great time!! We were so lucky that Aunt Amy was in town the same weekend, so she could come and hang out with us there. I volunteered to be in charge of the dessert Friday night, and in asking my dad how I should go about getting people to help me with making dutch oven desserts, he just offered to come and do it for us. Of course he went all out and it was awesome! Amy was a lifesaver though, how many times in the night did I wake up to Mitch or Luke crying out and Amy being the first responder to take care of them! It was freezing cold!, and by the morning, Elise was in my sleeping bag, and Mitch was in Amy's! I love ward camp outs because everyone has small children that don't sleep, and there's no way to isolate your tent enough to not be heard by everyone else...when my own kids weren't crying, waking me up, it was all the other crying children around! I don't think I got much sleep at all! At breakfast the next morning, we were all discussing and laying claim to the cries we all heard throughout the night! It was so funny! My favorite is, after the kids are in bed, the "big kids" get to hang out and have fun! I played a little BS action with the teens, then joined in on the fireside stories and laughs with the adults. I love the people in our ward, so many fun people!
Mitch was such a huge helper (when he wasn't complaining)! After Amy and I put the tent up and put all of our stuff inside of it from the car, Mitch did all the work of unrolling the pads and sleeping bags and organizing the inside of the tent! I love when children start getting old enough to be helpful.
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ha ha! awesome...I love it...I love that twizzlers did the trick! I also think it's funny that I, too, just posted about my own camping adventures! LOL..great minds think alike! =)
yeah it will be a few years before we can go camping with out one of the kids waking up crying/screaming.
someday. . .
Sounds like fun...we really missed out. I wish we were more brave when it comes to camping with the kids. I think we just like sleeping WAY too much!
Yeah, I have to concur with your last commenter-we're wimps about camping with the kids. Thus, it's the backyard for us... :) But it looks like you guys had a great time! :)
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