Fourth Fun with First Campout

We're very blessed to live with the pond out back. It allows for all of the elements of camping without actually camping...fishing, boating, frog-catching, campfires w/ s'mores....then bring the kids inside, give 'em a bath and off to sleep in their nice, familiar beds. Very nice, indeed, but it was time for Gavin to experience a night out in a tent...with our home in sight just in case the sounds of night freaked him out. Really, that was what concerned me most...the sounds, and how he would handle them. We've got these trees out back filled with tree frogs that get so crazy loud at night, they sound like howler monkeys...add to that the bull frogs, the heron screeching, and the occasional shriek of a red fox or fisher cat and I was almost certain that we'd wind up back in the house after a few hours.
Nope...Friday night, the kid handled himself like a champ...slept like a log all night. Chrissy and Ivy hung out until it got dark and then retreated inside. We snapped some pics of the goings on:



Our little setup.






Some heavy-duty marshmallowing


'Shmallow Art courtesy of Chrissy Leo


Tent Dance Party!!


Of course the obligatory illegal fireworks had to make an appearance....thank you New Hampshire. Don't worry, we read the warning labels...no fingers were blown off in the making of this blog.

At one point, it rained for a 1/2 hour or so...we huddled in the tent, all 4 of us, laughing, tickling, wrestling...then we looked out of the tent and saw this:






Unbelievable, right? It was one of those magical times when you feel as though God just *winked* at you and whipped up something special just for you. It was the brightest rainbow I've seen here in years and hung around for a good 20 minutes...with our tent right underneath it.

All in all we had an amazing time...so amazing, in fact, that Gavin and I slept out Saturday night as well.....Well, it's Sunday afternoon and we left the tent up.....just in case :^)

Thank you Lord for all You are and how much You love Your children. Thank You for Your Creations and for allowing us to enjoy and explore all that You have made!!




A fool would ask for more.