Let me just start off by saying that I'm not a camping or "roughing it" type of girl. I hate dirt, unless there's grass on it, I hate numerous amounts of trees in one place, I hate the smell of campfires and the only place that I like to sleep is my bed. Joe knows this and he has known this since we've been married and that is why we haven't been camping. Well, next weekend is that father son camp out for our ward and Joe will be out of town for it. So I told him that he should just take the boys and go this weekend. He kept on bugging me and bugging me to go with them until finally I decided that it couldn't be that bad and decided I would go. So we surprised him and left right after work on friday. 
Travis and Tyler were so excited!!!!! The first thing they did when we got there was set-up the tent. This was probably the only thing they helped with during the trip. 
I hate tents so I blew-up the air mattress and was going to sleep on it in the car with Tyler...so I thouhgt. It ended up being way cold so we all slept in there. Yeah, I won't be doing that again. 
Yes, that is a smile on my face, probably the only one that whole time. Poor Tyler's hands kept getting too cold, and he didn't understand how to stop it from happening or how to make it feel better, so he spent a lot of time with me (not much change there). Luckily, his crying made the whiners next to us move to another campsite, so we had lots of room to run around.
That night for dinner Travis roasted a hot dog and Tyler pretty much only had pickles and Oreos.
After a cold, cramped, and smelly (campfire) night we woke up and I decided that we should go home. Joe decided that we should go see the waterfalls. "Just one and it's not that far of a hike," he said. I should've known better when he used the word hike. So we packed up the car and drove to the falls. I didn't know it was going to be cold so I didn't pack pants for Tyler but I figured it wasn't going to be that long of a "hike" so his pajamas were fine.
In this picture just imagine a trickle of pee running down his leg then Travis in a proud voice yelling, "look mom I went pee!!!!" We are still working on him telling us before hand when he needs to go.
After all that complaining I do have to say that we had a fun time and I love spending time with my boys especially here in Oregon.
5 comments:
Cute! I'm glad you went camping. We like to camp and I always bring air mattresses for the tent. I haven't been camping in awhile, though, but the boys have been 2 years to the Father/son campout and they have both times enjoyed it.
you guys will have to go camping with us this summer!! except I guess you can't call it camping we are getting a yurt.
i am totally like you with camping. the only time i ever went was for girls camp. i always use an air mattress because i hate to camp, too.
Joe: I couldn't help thinking about our EQ campout, and how cold the water was. I'm still baffled about how much we spent on the meals and how little we had left over, the great turnout, and the warm water. At least we had guns right!!! Looks like you had fun. We are no longer going to OR in July, but I'll come camping with you someday.
Ruffin
what is it with guys and camping? Heath has been begging me to go camping for two months. seriously. so with all my stubornness he set up the tent in the house and we camped in. sounds like a trip you will always remember!
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