Labor Day Weekend "Camping"

We had big plans to go camping over Labor Day weekend. We've been planning on it most of the summer knowing that all other weekends wouldn't work for us. Then a week ago I realized we hadn't even thought to reserve a camping spot and weren't too excited about just taking our chances on such a big camping weekend. On top of that Aaron just started up fall semester and has a paper due on Tuesday as well as 5 chapters to read. So we decided to fill the weekend with fun activities at home. So the kids went camping in the backyard (while mommy and daddy slept on their bed inside) I think they really enjoyed being able to sleep outside. The first night out I didn't put the fly up and it ended up raining on them at 6am! So we let the tent dry out and put the fly on but did it rain again? nooo. Although it did get chillier so the fly probably did help with keeping them slightly warmer.


I loved watching the glow from the tents as the kids read their books inside them with their flashlights. I think they really loved their backyard camping every night this weekend (even though they would have loved real camping more-but were such good sports about it.)

We also went to the BYU Women's Volleyball game (they won). That was a ton of fun. We should really do it more often. And then we went to a BYU tailgate party and watched the BYU Football game (they won). Also fun.

Aaron got really sick over the weekend so we took it easy and I spent time hanging out with the kids. We had a lot of fun with Legos especially. Kielle and the other kids worked hard on a camping scene.

These guys are roasting marshmallows over a fire.

And this is their tent. We found the "plans" to make these at legofamilytime.com/familyfun. There were all sorts of other cool plans if you want to do fun lego stuff too. Ada made an apple and there were plans for trees and pencil holders-Kielle made that and a tic tac toe board. Nathan is the LEGO expert in out home and didn't need the plans because he just creates this stuff out of his own head. He kept wanting to improve the designs we had.