camping

we went camping last friday-saturday. it was tons of fun, i only wish we could have stayed another day! we were really worried it would be too cold and wet, (it rained all day thursday and stopped friday morning, and the highs were suppopsed to be in the low 60s, which is pretty cold if you live in texas), but it was really nice, it got chilly at night, but i don't think anyone was too cold. i forgot my camera again, which you may think means there'll be less pictures, but thanks to our wonderful friends, there's still more than enough :)

setting up campi'm not cold, i'm just a little red snowmanproud chefnote the double dutch ovens, it's great when dinner and dessert can be cooking at the same time, then you don't have to wait as long!

and perhaps even better, the cherry cobbler doesn't taste like left over beef stew :)afton loved her glowstick!morning time, perfect for hot cocoa!and friends!and a nice warm fire!afton helped break camp. her job was to remove all the little worms from the tarp under the tent, then she "helped" shake off the tarp and fold it :)down at the fishing pier (we were at lake texoma, by the way, on the border between tx and ok)there were a LOT of staris down to the pier, but afton did great! she also loved climbing over to the side to throw rocks in the water. and finally, we stopped at the playground before we left back for home. there was just a slide and some swings, but the kids LOVED, LOVED, LOVED the slide!
i think between them, afton and rayna went down a million times :)but the daddies loved it too :) it's hard to find the metal old-school ones like this anywhere else i think rayna was the only kid that tried the swings (without sitting on a parent's lap at least), but she was happy there too.

afton is always happiest in the dirt and sand (and throwing it on joshua's head)