Happy Monday, friends! I hope you all had a fun weekend! We sure did - and no, I didn't go hiking in high heels! But I did go hiking and wear high heel (wedges) which are both pretty unusual for me!
Friday night we got dressed up and went out to dinner for our friend Brettni's 30th birthday!
Amanda and I put together some fun table decorations and got some hot pink cupcakes for the birthday girl! We stayed out LATE for us (11pm, what what!), but we had a blast!
The next morning we were up at 5:30am and headed out for our family camping trip! Will has been bugging me about going camping since we got married, and I have always shot him down. I don't know if it's the baby coming and the fact that I know our time with just Liam is slowly closing in (I suspect that has everything to do with it), but all of a sudden I felt the need to do something special with just us three and camping popped into my head. I'm blaming the crazy hormones and only having 4 more months being a boy only mom. I texted Will at work and threw out the idea, and an hour later he had reservations made! I think he was pretty shocked and decided to jump on it before I changed my mind, ha!
Our little campsite. I know NOTHING about camping, but the husband is an eagle scout who grew up camping with his family every summer and canoeing hundreds of miles in Canada and camping out along the way - who does that for FUN!?? Just kidding :)
So he talked me through it and in 15 minutes, we had pitched the tent! I was pretty proud of myself!
We headed out for a hike around the lake before lunch. Will "thought" it was just a short 1 mile hike that would be fun and leisurely. And then somehow it turned into a 2.5 mile hike! Now I'm not a sissy, 2.5 miles is not that a big of a deal to me normally, but when you're 5 months pregnant and have to pee about 30 minutes in, it turns into a REALLY long hike! We made it through though, and it was really pretty. We camped in east Texas and I can never get sick of the pine trees. It smells so good out there!
After our hike, we headed back to the tent for lunch and nap time. Liam did great and slept for nearly 2 hours! Will and I took that time to sit and do nothing. I read People. It was glorious. And we discussed baby girl's name. I think we've settled on a full name! I'm just trying it on a little longer before I share!
After Liam's nap, we headed down to the lake again to just walk around. There was a playground and a dock for fishing...and then Liam spotted the paddle boats. He was dying to get on one so of course, we obliged! We all loved it, even Will who did most of the work :)
Helping Daddy steer!
We spent the rest of the afternoon letting Liam run and roam around the park. I definitely overpacked when it came to toys. Reminder to myself: Boys like dirt and sticks and rocks.
A swing with a view!
Liam helped Will get the fire started for dinner. We had roasted hot dogs and corn, and then s'mores for dessert of course!
Just being silly!
Roasting marshmallows! Liam is eating one here and would NOT put it down for a picture!
We kept Liam up much later then normal so he could see the stars. It was pretty cloudy so we couldn't see as much as we'd hoped for, but Liam didn't seem to mind. When they first came out, I asked Liam if he could see them, and he looked up at the sky and stared for a minute. Then all of a sudden he gasped and started pointing everywhere saying "star! star!" And he loooves the moon so he pointed it out about a million times and kept telling it night-night! He was so funny to watch!
Bedtime was only so-so. Liam went to sleep really easily because it was so late, but he woke up in the middle of the night and flipped out because he didn't know where he was. We were right there sleeping on either side of him, but he was just so confused and it scared him to death! Will was able to rock him to sleep after a little while, but I barely slept the rest of the night checking on him. I will say though that sleeping outside wasn't that bad, and I was actually pretty comfy in my sleeping bag! I also had an inflatable mat underneath it, and Liam had a foam mat under his. Will was the only one that really "roughed it" and slept directly on the ground. Liam woke up again a little before 6 and wasn't going back to sleep so that was that. Will was really sweet though and took care of him while he started the fire so I could sleep another hour! By the time I got up, breakfast was about to go on and Liam was sitting in a lawn chair happily watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on the ipad. So it wasn't terrible, but I think we've decided to wait until next summer to try an entire weekend away. (Baby girl will have to stay with the grandparents for that one!)
After breakfast we started packing up to head home. Will was folding up the tent and laid down on it to flatten it out. Liam thought that looked like so much fun so he jumped on and was rolling around on it, so Will just packed him up in it. We were dying laughing, and Liam thought he was being so funny!
We stopped for a quick picture by the sign and then said goodbye to east Texas! It was a fun experience with my two outdoorsy boys!
P.S. I made this scavenger hunt for Liam to do. I just printed it out and taped it onto a paper bag for him to collect all the items in. Well, he could have cared less! Every time he would find an item, he would just pick it up and throw it. Or if I got him to actually put it in the bag, he dumped it all back out about 2 minutes later. SO if anyone else's child might use it, here it is! Just right click, save, and print. It doesn't have to be for camping, I chose easy stuff that can be found at pretty much any park - or maybe even your own backyard!
