I love the idea of camping, but I hate the idea of paying $60 for a spot. So When the in-laws left town, we overtook their backyard and had a night of camping.
Right after school, we went swimming, and then started setting up.
We had visitors in town (RoRo and Grey), and they helped us out quite a bit.
The award for the “least amount of help” goes to Dashy!
But luckily he also got the “cutest camper” award.
When it was all set up, the kids had a blast playing in the tents and getting them totally full of crumbs and dirt.
Perfect for late night critters to enjoy.
Once it got dark, we popped some Jiffy Pop over the BBQ.
The kids were fans — but we already knew they would be.
UP past their bed times with warm popcorn!
Then I taught them how to try and catch popcorn in their mouths.
Scout got the hang of it.
Navy went for the direct drop.
We spent a lot of time picking up every last kernel — to avoid those same critters I spoke about before.
After a long and fun night, we got Dash and the kids down, and Micah and I slept right in there with them.
Too bad Dash thought it was party time, and ended up in the inside crib about 30 minutes later!
Too too bad that I had to join him indoors about 4 hours later when I heard him crying.
But the payoff came the next morning when Dash and I woke up and looked outside our window to see Micah and the kids already taking down the tents and cleaning up while we had been snoozing.
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