Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Camping at Stone Mountain (Day 1 of 3)


We had a full house for the campfire on Friday night

If there's a fire Adam is guaranteed to be right there - poking, prodding, and generally messing with it

Helen is on smore duty waiting for the next toasted marshmallow

Adam brought along some books to read to cousin Lindsay

Derek hanging out with Lindsay, Brooke, and Aunt Agatha

Derek played "headless horseman" with the girls


Adam and I finish getting the bedding ready in our tent

Derek helps Uncle Mike put up his tent

Derek and Adam snuggled up and ready for a chilly night

Friday October 22, 2010

This past weekend we went camping at Stone Mountain with Helen's family. I packed a bunch of stuff Friday morning before work, but it still took us longer than expected to leave Friday evening (and I was getting a little cranky). The traffic had died down, but we were hungry and not looking forward to setting up camp late at night.

Helen's parents have a motor home and we all gathered at their camp site for dinner and a campfire. Agatha's sister's family joined us with their 4 beautiful girls so we had a full house. We didn't get back to our campsite and start setting up until around 11 pm. We're getting pretty good at setting up camp, so with the boys help we had everything ready to go pretty quickly.

It was a chilly night. We had not planned to use the boys sleeping bags but I put them in the tent just in case. We were all cold and huddled under our flannel sheet and comforter, but when Adam woke up during the night and said he was cold I got out the sleeping bags, which have a warm flannel lining, unzipped them, and covered everyone up. Aaahhhh - much better.

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