"camping"

 We had a camping trip this weekend...in our back yard Saturday night. Kead saw it on Little Einsteins and has been begging ever since. So we waited for the weather to cool down a bit, and for the sun to start going down before 9:30. It was still 90 degrees on Saturday and the sun is going down at 8:45, but still...we "camped".

Keadryn's excitement over the whole ordeal was contagious. She knew exactly what she wanted to do and made sure we had 1)tents and 2) marshmallows, and that's all mattered.

We set up the tent on Saturday afternoon and let the girls play in them. They dragged their nap mats and some toys out there and played in the hot tents all afternoon. Once it got to dinner time we ordered pizza (another bonus of backyard camping!) and ate in the tents. Kead and Sayla giggled throughout dinner and thought it was the coolest thing.

Finally the sun went down enough to start the fire. The girls scavenged the back yard for sticks and we made a mini fire that was just hot enough for smores. Check out Kead's face when Drew said it was time to start the fire:

 I know its blurry- but the picture is priceless. She could.not.contain the excitement! Kead has never tried smores, but knew they had to be something amazing....I mean, she loves all the ingredients:

We roasted the marshmallows and ate a couple then went straight for the awesome-sticky goodness of smores. Both the girls loved them, but who wouldn't?

As far as actually camping...we ended up laying in the tent for a bit and then the girls got restless and Kead was not loving being sticky. We brought the tent inside, did a bath and tried again.  After 30 minutes and lots of playing and getting in and out Kead declared it was time to go sleep in our beds. LOVE a camping trip that ends in a shower and a good night rest in my bed.

Do this with your kids. It was so much fun for all of us and they couldn't care less that we weren't really camping and never left the house. If only Drew's and my desire to go camping was satisfied so easily. :)