Camping

 Jason and I both love camping but we have only been able to go one time since Kaleb has been born. Well, Jason's birthday weekend was a perfect weekend to try again. It was a beautiful forcast and we didn't have any soccer games that weekend. We packed the car and headed out for Bledsoe park after Chase woke up from his nap.  We decided to call ahead and found out that they were full. Oh no! We then drove a little further down the road to Lebannon where we found another state park. We wanted to stay close in case we had to pack up in the middle of the night and head home.

 Some boy scouts came and helped us set up our tent. I guess we looked like we needed help. Everyone commented on how big out tent was. It was pretty nice and roomy.  We then started cooking dinner.

 Chase is smiling b/c he gets to eat another hot dog! We had a great meal of hot dogs, potatoes, pasta and corn.

 Jason thought it would be cool to buy these Humongous marshmallows for our s'mores.

 Chase seemed to like them too!

 I don't know if it was all the sugar from the s'more or the new environment but chase would not go to sleep that night.  We did not have a cover over our tent and you could see the moon, stars and trees above our tent. Chase kept standing up and pointing upwards saying "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!" I think he liked it. Kaleb did awesome. He slept well and loved being outdoors. Chase however woke up about 4am (probably b/c he was cold b/c he refused to use a blanket) and I had to hold him until sunrise.  Jason kept coughing b/c he was congested and kept shaking the air mattress (yes, we cheated) so I made him go sleep in the car so he wouldn't wake Chase up more.

 Our sleepy breakfast...

 and morning stretches...

 we are tree huggers....at least for the day!  The boys had fun climbing all over this fallen tree the next morning.

 Ahhh, successful camping trip!

 After we packed up camp we went for a short 1 mile hike. I was so excited to be camping and hiking again. It had been too long and it was totally worth the lack of sleep we got that night. Hopefully as Chase gets older we will get to go more often. Camping is one of my favorite things to do.

 On our hike, the boys collected pretty flowers for their mommy.  One of the sweetest memories I will have of my boys is about every walk we go on, Kaleb will pick flowers for me and Chase is starting to learn too.  LOVE IT!! So sweet! That is b/c they have a good daddy that teaches them how to treat a woman!

 After we got back from camping we had a Birthday party with friends for Jason's big 34th birthday. Ha!  We had a cornhole tournament that ended in the dark. It was a good day!