Camping

Yay! We went camping!! Last summer when Bennett was only 3 months old, we thought it would be a genius idea to take him camping... He wasn't mobile yet and it was easy to get him to sleep. Unfortunately, the poor little dude got a bad case of tummy trouble and the whole trip was one crying fit after another, including a late night drive to town and a call to the on-call pediatric nurse. The pictures turned out cute, but we haven't ventured back into the woods until this summer.

And boy, was it fun!! Bennett was so happy to spend ALL DAY outside! (confined in his baby jail of course) and we had a good time cooking tin foil dinners and fishing! Well, I say fishing. More like we had a good time casting! Yay! No fish this time though...

Some highlights:

Bennett got his first taste of campfire hotdogs! YUM!
We all got a little sunburned, but it could have been a lot worse considering we didn't wear any sunscreen (what was I thinking??) Poor Bennett had a red scalp.
Sleeping next to Bennett... haha. This kid thrashes in his sleep! He was punching and kicking us all night. Oh, and he talks in his sleep too. I was waking up all night to the sound of "dadadadada" Thanks kid. You have two parents, you know.
More tasty campfire cooking courtesy of moi. I am a pro at tin foil dinners. No lie!
**Waking up to the sounds of a baby panther eating Dandy's dog food outside and realizing that there was no scenario in which members of our family did NOT get shredded by its vicious claws. Okay, I woke Ty up to check and no one got shredded... In the morning, the rangers really tried convincing me that it was a javelina, but we know what we saw.

We are hoping to go camping one more time when the weather cools down a bit. It was hot!! The first night we didn't even sleep with blankets or anything. I love camping with Ty! It is so relaxing and we both have such a good time enjoying each others company and being outside in the fresh air. Thank you Arizona for providing us some higher elevations!