Tuesday, May 10, 2011

The Father's & Sons Campout that wasn't.

Our ward had planned it's annual Fathers' and Sons' camp out for last weekend. The boys talked about it and couldn't wait to go since they heard about it. Thursday night we played outside with our friends (see previous post) and Friday morning Tj woke up feeling pretty awful. So much so that he ended up calling into work. Things did not look good for the boys camping trip with Tj. The more the day went on the more I started wracking my brain for ideas to make up for the camping trip that wasn't going to happen. I bought a hibachi grill and fixings for foil dinners and s'mores and decided to have an indoor camp out. The boys were a little dissappointed but after Tj promised to take them camping another time they enjoyed the home-bound festivities.

Joel with our foil dinners. Yum!
Luckily Tj did feel well enough to man the "grill".

Vance eating dinner.

Roasting marshmallows.

Mmmmm, S'mores!

Vance roasting his marshmallows.

S'mores- so messy and but oh, so worth it!

Our indoor fort.
We loaded it up with blankets and pillows and watched a movie.

I knew that I had done a pretty good job when
the boys asked if we could do a home camp out again.
Man, I love these boys!

2 comments:

Steve and Donna said...

you're a good mom :)

Vanessa said...

I am sure they don't even miss the fact that they didn't go camping. Mothers are amazing like that, they can fix everything and make it all better. Smore's sounds so good. we may just have to have some tonight.