Camping.... In the frontroom!

Last weekend we had planned to go camping with a bunch of friends. We had told Jackson all about it, set up our tent in the frontroom to make sure we would all fit, cleaned, did laundry, went grocery shopping, packed and were ready to go. We knew it was going to be hot and were okay with leaving early if Cole was having a hard time. The night before we were to go our friends, who had gone up that day, called and said not to bring anything warm that it was pretty hot there and they were going to put their little boy in just his diaper to sleep with maybe a thin blanket. After that I was questioning it a little more but the plan was to still go. We finished some stuff up that night and I went to bed. As I was laying there I just kept having this feeling that we shouldn't go. So I went out and talked to Ross and we decided that we would stay home. BUMMER. We had hyped it up for Jackson and he was super excited to go. So we decided that we would still make it a fun weekend and we would go camping in our frontroom!

Our stuff all packed ready to go

We started off the weekend by going to the zoo on Friday morning. These are phone pictures so the quality isn't the best. 

The lion was super close and Jackson loved it.

 We then came back and had tinfoil dinners, caught fireflies, cooked s'mores over the oven and watched a movie in the tent.

Jackson loved the whole idea of the tent but when it came time to go to sleep we turned off the lights and told Jackson to lay down and go to sleep he looked at us and said "no, sleep in my bed" we tried to tell him that we were sleeping in the tent and it would be fun but he wasn't having any of it. He said again "no, sleep in my bed" and grabbed his blanket and walked out of the tent and into his room haha Smart boy. Why would you sleep on the ground when you have your soft bed ten steps away.

Happy Cole

I love baby feet

Making s'mores

It was perfect to have the ipad in the net at the top of the tent so everyone could lay and see it! 

The next day we went to the Redbirds baseball game and watched their fireworks after. Cole did so well with the fireworks. He just sat there and watched them. I had put stuff in his ears and was covering them with my hands so he couldn't hear a thing. I was trying to get him to sleep but he was having none of it and kept watching the fireworks

The night was perfect! You don't get those here in June. Cole was happy to be outside and not sweating to death

Love this picture

Jackson made friends with all the kids around no matter their age! He loved just running around

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A little family picture

Mr. Cole taking a nap during the game

Jackson was dancing with the music and I was taking picture of him when all of a sudden he was on the jumbotorn! I was glad I had my camera ready and got a picture of it

The firework show was awesome too!

Ross and I were talking on the way home from the game that we were glad that we didn't go camping and were able to do fun things as a family and not have to die in the heat.