Camping Run Through . . .

We're taking the kids on their first camping trip in two weeks. I grew up camping--that's what my family did for vacations . . . we even camped at Disney World in the summer--WOW!! I have wonderful memories of camping as a child and I'm so excited to create those memories with Aiden and Rebekah. We are even taking them to the place in the Shenandoah Mountains where my family always camped. We decided today that we should do a run through with our tent. It's a brand new tent so we figured we should practice setting it up. We don't have a flat area in our yard that's big enough for our tent--so we set it up on a hill. I was impressed how easy it was to set up--but the thing that really got us was how BIG this tent it. We had a 4 person tent that we sold because we were afraid it would be a little to tight for us and our bags. This tent . . . lets just say that we can fit our family and all of the other families who read this blog in with us. Want to come camping?

The kids LOVED it--Aiden wanted to play school inside the tent so we spent the morning doing that. Rebekah was quite disappointed when Mike took it down--she thought she was sleeping in it tonight!