CAMPING................kind of!!

Usually on Labor Day weekend we pack up our motor home and head to the desert so the kids can ride their ATVs. But with the boys, 3 weeks into school and soccer practice, Oran and I decided life was just to crazy to even tempt to put a trip into the plans. So we decided to have a "camp out" in the back yard. The kids loved it.

The guy next door grows grapes in his backyard and the vines always fall in our yard so Matthew and Oran had to clear them out before we could set up the tent.

while Oran, Matthew were outside cleaning Taylor went on the computer to fine ghost stories. He had a few good ones to tell in the tent before we went to sleep.

This is Mikayla's favorite thing to do outside, climb up the ladder to the slide.

Now that the yard was clean, it was time to set up the tent. All the kids helped.

Now that we ate dinner it's time for s'mores YUMMY!!! (side note.....Thomas can not eat s'mores because of all his food allergies so he is eating his "bar" that I make special just for him)

Matthew loves to eat them

Thomas loves to cook them

after s'mores Oran got out the telescope.

The telescope was a hit, they saw some stars and it was neat to hear Taylor name all the planets.

Good night sleep tight



and we all slept in the tent all night long until about 6:30 in the morning when the kids woke up!!