Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Spring Break and a Camping Trip

The third week of March was Spring Break. I tried to keep the boys engaged and have things for them to do, but mostly they just wanted to watch TV and play on the computer. They drove me crazy quite a bit and fought way too much…I now have slightly mixed feelings about school being out this summer. I love having Aaron home and getting to spend more time with him, but Aaron and Brian butt heads a lot lately, so I’ll have to work hard to keep them occupied and happy.

We were invited by some friends to go camping at Lake Livingston Stake Park the weekend of Spring Break. I initially said ‘No’ since Paul had class all day Friday and Saturday, but decided to go anyway. To be honest, after finding out my friend Stefan was going to be taking her 4 kids without her husband, pride wouldn’t let me stay home…if she can do it, I can do it! So I packed up my 3 kids and headed to Livingston. There ended up being 7 families camping together, including 12 adults and 26 kids, aged 19 to 4 months. There were lots of kids to help entertain each other and lots of hands to help hold the baby. I missed Paul and it was still a lot of work, but I had a great time. I love camping food, love spending time outside with my friends and love teaching my kids about nature (although I think they played more UNO than anything else!) We were blessed with amazing weather and I wish I could do it again tomorrow…but with Paul!

This picture was actually taken by Brian...love the composition of the trees!

Our little tent

Hanging out with our friends

The boys playing UNO...again!

I love campfires!

2 comments:

brooke said...

we camped too!! but we were the only people in the whole place.

John and Marcia said...

Aaron looks so big next to that tent. When did I give him permission to grow that much?