Father & Sons

This past weekend Connor, Logan and I went camping for Father's and Sons. Our friends Jason and Anne were spending their last night before Jason's deployment at a hotel without kids, so I took their 4 yr old son Garrett with us and Amber watched their 6 yr old daughter Ellen. It promised to be a scorcher with temps predicted in the 100s, but it really didn't feel that bad. We were in the shade most of the time and didn't really notice the heat. We got their at about 5 and pitched the 2 man dome tent inherited from Amber's father. I have a newer tent, but it is a large one for the whole family and I didn't want it to pack it around. We won't be using this tent anymore though. two of the poles are broken and the tent ended up leaning at a weird angle. It was fine for 1 man and three boys, though I did have to line everyone up outside to come in one at a time to put on jammies and assign them a spot. We were one of the few that actually cooked a dinner instead of stopping for Subway, so we had a nice meal of barbecued hot dogs, bratwurst and the traditional Smores to finish it off. I think the boys preferred burning the marshmellows to eating the Smores! I did get a good tip for future camping ... glow sticks! One of the fathers brought some and gave them all to the kids to play with. It let you know where the kids were in the dark and they had a blast. In the morning we had breakfast cooked up by the bishopric and packed up and left. We had a good time and of course the kids got really dirty!!