Fathers and Sons Camp-out

This was the first year Brian was able to take the boys to our church's annual Fathers and Sons camp-out.  Unfortunately they were only able to be there for about 12 hours total.  Just long enough to play with the camp fire the night before and eat breakfast the next morning and come home.  They loved every second and couldn't wait to tell me all about how they got to play with sticks in the fire and sleep (if that's what you can call laying down on slanted hard ground with dogs barking all night and trains constantly running near by) in a tent.  A couple of days later I heard from some of the other boys at church that Brian had lost Ben for a good 25 minutes or so when he wandered off into another camping area.  Everything turned out okay and Ben had to carry a walkie-talkie with him the rest of the time to make sure Brian could find him if they got separated again.  Anyway, here are some pictures of my boys having a good time. :)

The sleeping couldn't have been that bad because when they got back I had a hard time getting the boys to agree to sleep indoors again.  Every day after that for about a week the boys kept insisting that we needed to go to the store and buy a tent like the one they slept in at the camp out.  At first we tried to appease them by just letting them sleep on an air mattress on our covered deck at night.

Unfortunately that didn't appease them for very long and we ended up going out and buying a tent a few days later.  :)  I don't have a picture of the new tent yet, but we did set it up in the backyard and slept out there as a family one night (okay so maybe my grass allergies got the better of me and I caved and went back inside at about 2am).