Backyard Campout

Hannah suggested that sometime we should have a campout in our backyard before it got "too cold". (Which should make all of you who live in Utah smile.) So Friday night was the chosen night and it was so fun. Maddie had her last soccer game for this season at 9:00 am Saturday, Melissa is expecting her baby anyday and Bonka and I would always pick our own bed, so it was decided that those were reasons enough to just have a "pretend" sleepover. We had sub sandwiches and then went to the backyard and began preparations for the tent, fire and s'mores.

Here are the mighty men setting up our tent. Thank you Josh, Jeremy and Bonka!

Bonka started our fire for us and we enjoyed the warmth it provided as the evening began to get cool enough for a light jacket :) Hannah brought the biggest marshmallows we had ever seen and the s'mores and roasted Starbursts were a hit!

I realized that Halle slept through most of the campout so I thought I'd better get a pre-campout picture of her so you knew she WAS here :)



Maddie, Molly and Kate loved playing inside the tent with their flashlights. Here they are making silly faces for the camera.

Josh, Melissa and Kate

Hannah, Jeremy, Molly and Maddie

Bonka telling his idea of a "scarey" story for 2 and 4 yr olds. Obviousily it wasn't too scarey since the adults all seem to be laughing :)

Jeremy and Maddie listening to Bonka's story.

I do believe this was the first time I had seen Kate and Molly holding hands. They walked around like that for part of the evening and it was so cute! I hope they will always love each other and who knows maybe someday they can be roommates with Avery at BYU.

Molly did a little shopping and her best find was Kate!

It was such a beautiful night out and so much fun. We will definitely do this again sometime and who knows, maybe next time we will actually sleep all night in the tent :)