Camping

What a nightmare. The girls had fun, so that's good. We went to a Camperworld near Kamas with some friends. There were a total of 8 kids - two 5 year olds, one 3-year-old, two 2-year-olds, one 1-year-old and a 3-week-old. Our twins were definitely the problem children. On Saturday night our friend commented to Aaron "I haven't seen them sit down voluntarily the whole weekend!" That was the truth, too.

We arrived at camp on Friday afternoon about 2:00. Aaron started setting up camp while I wrangled the kids at the playground. The girls LOVED it. Aaron took them all swimming around 4. Brie wasn't a fan so I got her out and tried to get her to take a nap, it didn't work. We had dinner around 7 and tried putting the twins down around 8:30. It didn't work, which didn't surprise me. We got them up and everyone enjoyed s'mores and sitting around the campfire until about 10:30. The twins went to sleep with little protest but they were both up by 1. We nestled them in between us and tried to get them back to sleep. Brie just wanted to play. Cami fell asleep in the crook of my left arm and I tried to get Brie to fall asleep in the crook of my right arm. Instead she fell asleep using my face as her pillow. Nice. They slept until a little after 9, but it was not a restful night of sleep!

We went to lunch in Kamas on Saturday and then spent the afternoon watching the kids run around. We had bbq'd ribs that Aaron had smoked before we headed up the canyon, they were really good. Saturday night went much better as far as sleep was concerned. It was warmer, the girls were familiar with where we were and they had exhausted themselves. Sunday we had breakfast and packed up camp.

The twins still say "mountains" and "CAMPING" with a lot of enthusiasm but I don't think we'll be doing this again this summer!