A Tale of Two Camp Outs

For a while now, Trey has been asking to go camping. So while in Macon for my girls' day, armed with a gift card that we'd had for over a year, I went to Bass Pro and bought a humongous tent. Now, I don't do camping...ever! But I figured if my three boys were going to be camping on regular basis they would need lots of room. When I got home with the tent, Trey absolutely, positively could not wait until the next weekend to set up the tent and camp. Now it was late, way past dark, and way past the boys bedtime. But...they were so excited that while they were playing in the tub we set up the humongous tent in the living room. And...it filled the WHOLE room. We even had to move furniture. It went from the front edge of the couch all the way to the entertainment center. We could barely get to the door. But you know what, it was all worth it! The boys were SO EXCITED. They settled down in the tent and Jesse sang songs and Trey told a spooky story...because you know a camp out is just not complete without a spooky story!

Jesse and his Baby Jesus...we used this doll as our Baby Jesus in the Christmas play this year, and the name stuck!

The following Friday night, Phil took the boys down to the creek and they fished and camped. They were joined by their cousins, Lexie, Roman, and Bella, and had a grand time playing in the tent, roasting hot dogs and marshmallows, and fishing. I really wish that I had pictures to share of all the fun, but Hubby fell down on the job and only took three pictures when they first arrived. He claims that he was too busy setting up the tent, gathering firewood, building the fire, roasting hot dogs and marshmallows, and everything else to take pictures. Likely story, don't ya think? Maybe Mama should do camping, at least a little bit, so she can get her pictures.

Anyway, it looks to be a beautiful spot and you can see the boys were having a blast!

Surprisingly, Jesse did very well. He even fell asleep in the tent. But, he was very excited to be potty training and in his sleep he had an accident. He woke up and could not be consoled. He was so upset that he had messed up his pull up. So at 12:45am he came home...well, he came to sleep with me at my Mama's. Because after our break-in the previous Monday there was no way I was staying home alone! After that all the cousins went home to warm beds. But Trey would not be swayed...he was camping out. So. He and Phil slept in the truck. It was kinda cold.