Camping Trip

We took Craig on his first camping trip! It was very fun. Of course as soon as I set him down he tried to eat a piece of deer poop. YUCK! Here he's helping dad put up the tent.

When K.C. started gathering firewood Craig got the program right away and started directing traffic. If K.C. didn't have any wood Craig would point at stuff on the ground. And as soon as K.C. would pick it up Craig would then point at the wood pile like "Go over there! Put it down."

We took my sisters with us and they said that it was their first time to go on an overnight camping trip. They were so cute and got so excited about everything. It was fun.

As the sun was starting to go down huge thunder clouds started to gather on the horizon and then lightning started to strike. We were all sad because no one wanted to go home. But happened to be right next to the only tall trees in like 100 yards. And the lightning was practically non stop off to the side of us so I was really worried.

We said a little prayer that we would know if it wasn't going to be safe and we should go home by having a scared feeling and being worried about the storm. But we also prayed that if it was OK for us to stay { because we all really wanted to } that we would feel calm and that we would forget about the storm and the storm would go away.

As soon as we were done the twins started talking about how good they felt and how it looked the clouds were going away. { They were still gathering and rolling over our heads } I was a little skeptical of their enthusiasm to stay regardless of what was safe or not. But I tried to have faith and believe that they were right.

We all decided to play a game and wait a little while before we decided what to do. It was the coolest thing ever. We all got lost in the game and about an hour later K.C. suddenly said "Hey you guys look there's no more thunder and lightning."

If fact there were no more clouds in the sky { except for a few small ones on the horizon }.
Wow! I was amazed. I guess I was trying to be practical and wise so I was sure we were headed home. But it was a great lesson to me on the power of prayer and the faith of a child. { or in this case 2 }

It's nice to know that Heavenly Father cares about little things that we'd like even when they aren't really that big a deal in the whole scheme of things. - wow that was really long!

Hanging out watching the fire.

We stayed the night had a great time. Craig even slept all night. { We hardly got a wink. } He was in our sleeping bag and all 5 of us were in the little tent. I never knew that Craig moved so much in his sleep and thank goodness he has his own bed at home. He flipped and flopped ALL night. I was squished up against the side of the tent and K.C. was squished in the bottom of the bag to avoid getting kicked in the face. It was defiantly an adventure.