A weekend to remember

Wow. We had such a huge weekend here! I am going to post about it in three parts so that I can break it up a little.
Friday night at the camp was Brady's brownie troop camp out. I think there were about 11 girls. each girl had to have a parent there and some even had their siblings there too. I was so thrilled to see the camp used for something other than the usual Friday night debauchery. (That's a whole other vent. I mean, post)
We don't usually see tents like this even when we have parties at the camp. i called this area tent city. Oliver had a grand time helping until it was time for him to leave.





After everyone got their tents set up we got the fire started so that the girls could roast their hot dogs. We ended up microwaving the hot dogs b/c the fire was being a little disagreeable. Once the fire got going the girls had a patch to earn. Making s'mores. Brady doesn't like s'mores so I was happy to volunteer to eat them for her. After we ate the girls had a project to make. Each girl had a five gallon bucket with a lid. They had to cut out carpet padding and then wrap it in plastic and glue it to the top of the bucket. It is now a camping stool and they can keep their camping equipment inside of the bucket. One dad thought they were going to be used for toilets when he heard we had to bring a bucket.




It was a cold night for some of the folks but Brady and I were cozy and warm in our tent. I didn't get much sleep between the talking in other tents and that damn rooster who lives at the next camp over. We were up by 6am. One of the dads had offered to make breakfast over the campfire for everyone. I thought I would pitch in so I brought my waffle iron. this was the best part about the whole event. The morning started out chilly and foggy. Then the sun began to shine and we all came to life The kids had a blast playing on the swing and the sunlight was beautiful trickling down through the trees. I did my best to capture it in pictures.








Brady was a happy camper by the time it was all over. I was pooped but had to go home and get ready for a wedding. It will go down in my memory as the best night I ever spent at Michael's camp. It was also the first night I ever spent away from Oliver and I did fine. I guess Oliver did pretty well too but daddy was a little tired when I got home.