YW/YM Campout

So I guess we need to slow down and stop having so much fun because I am having a hard time keeping the blog updated. Last week was fun and busy as usual. Nora had a field trip to the Dearborn Historical Museum and Kyla went on a field trip to the Detroit Zoo. Friday we packed up and headed camping with the Young Men and Young Women of the ward. It has been a tradition each year and they decided families were invited this year. Since Daniel is the Young Men's president we decided to support him and come along. It wouldn't have been much fun without our great friends the R. family there. I was pretty nervous about going camping with a two-month old baby and 3 little ones but it turned out being a lot of fun. One of the key components to that was probably the lack of dirt (We camped on a big lawn of sorts).

 

Eli's first campout! Such a good boy, slept through the night and everything

 

Hanging out around the campfire.

 

Nora taking such good care of her little brother.

 

Myka professionally roasting marshmallows, NOT but she really tried to get them nice and brown.

 

We have offically grown out of our tent. So the girls got to sleep in their own little two man tent. They did great once they got to sleep and were super excited to have a tent. Isn't is strange how you go camping to get out in nature and the kids are so fascinated with sleeping in a tent that they spend as much time as possible in there.

 

The girls had a great time playing with Daniel and his water bottle rocket he built for the scouts.

 

One of the scout leaders took this picture of Nora playing ladder ball. I wish I could take pictures as good as he does.

 

Five little girls walking alongside the woods trying to find a trail to follow. It is a good thing we never found a good one because I heard there was lots of posion ivy in there. After we packed up camp the plan was to go swimming at a water park, but it was overcast, cool, and a little rainy. We decided it wasn't worth paying the money to get the girls in to just freeze and complain. The YM and YW went swimming and we went to the park and then headed home. Daniel called as they were getting out of the pool and said everyone was hungry and I had driven off with the scout trailer and all their food. So with a half an hour's notice I threw together a fun backyard BBQ with the youth. As if we weren't tired after that, we decided on a date that night and went to the Olive Garden while the R's watched the kids.