Our 1st Campout!!!

So we decided that we would have our first family campout! We had it about three or four weeks ago! The weather was natsy but it didn't really bother us! We had fun making tinfoil dinners and then spending time together as a family. The boys thought it was an awesome adventure to sleep in a tent! 

Picture of our campsite! Hey! I never said that it was our first outdoors campout! This pregnant lady doesn't sleep on the ground! She prefers her mattress and nice warm house! The boys were super excited when Anth pulled out the tent and let them help set it up. They had their bags in and were running around in their like crazy! They got out the camp chairs and placed them in front of the fire!

You guessed it! Our fire! It kept us nice and toasty! It did get a little too warm but we just opened the windows and listen to the beautiful outdoors....rodeo finals, complete with twangy western music!

Our wonderful and delicious dinners! I completely cheated and cooked them in the oven before hand! We kept them warm on top of the stove. Anth and I had the traditional tinfoil dinner with hamburger, potatoes, and carrots. I added soy sauce to mine and thought it tasted awesome! The boys got a hot dog tinfoil pocket! They enjoyed eating hot dogs and french fries that been wrapped in tinfoil! We spread a blanket on the floor and ate on it so that it seemed more like camping. We were dog sitting so we even had some wild animals to keep away from our food!

After finishing dinner we decided to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks, Hot-Air Balloon Adventure. The boys then snuggled into their sleeping bags. Overall it was a lot of fun and something that we might do often to help break up the monotony of winter/spring/summer weather that we often inflicts our town!

Is it too late to post Easter photos?

So I know that Easter was well over a month ago and that I am really slow about posting. I really do want to do better. Ne ways... lets not get off our subject. This year for Easter we celebrated by traveling to my family's to watch Conference and to enjoy the holiday. We painted eggs and then in the morning had an easter egg hunt with the colored eggs and then our annual "Bunny Money" hunt. Our parents hide a few dollars in the eggs and let us search for them. It was first established when Anth and I got married to help pay for our gas. It was so expensive then .... $1.80!!! How did we ever afford it? We swore that if it ever got over two dollars that we would only bike everywhere! Lets just say that didn't happen! Ne ways...back on topic! It was a lot of fun and we enjoyed the time with family. It was freezing... as it has been for the last couple of years but it was still a great adventure!

 

Andrew with his Easter basket! He was so excited to go out and find the eggs! He hardly needed any help and was my helper when it was the adults turn to search! (He was my bender-over!)

Peter was our expert! He knew what he was doing and enjoyed explaining to Andrew how it worked! He was Anthony's partner for the adult hunt and they finished way before Andrew and I! Peter came to help me after Anth got all his! I am always the last one it seems!

This was Matthew's first Easter and he had a blast! He loved all the good things that he could put in his mouth. He didn't get the concept of picking up the eggs and putting them in a basket but he still liked going outside. My brother, Shaun, helped carry him around to find his eggs! Matthew enjoyed shaking them and hearing all the candy rattle inside!

Since Matthew couldn't eat the malted eggs that came in his eggs (okay, so I helped him suck on one! He's the third! What can I say! I'm way more relaxed about what goes in his mouth!), Anth decided that the next best thing would be painting his face with one! Matthew is 1/64 Indian and we like to let his heritage show! (If you look really close in that picture, you can see my gray hair starting to show through! The last couple of years have not been kind to my hair!)