A Camping We Went!

(Our tent)

Saturday, when Silas got off work we headed down to a little Island and went tent camping. We had a wonderful time just being together as a family, without any tv's, radio's, or computer's. We spent real quality time with each other talking and playing with Jolee.

Silas asked for a tent for Father's Day and well that's what he got.

(Daddy putting the tent up)

Being our first camping trip as a family, I think it went very well, the tent was really easy to put up, and we only came away with one broken strap and a small hole in the floor. I'm not an experienced camper or anything but I think that's pretty good, for some people who didn't know what we were doing. It started raining as soon as we got the tent put up, so we sat inside and talked about how wonderful it would be to take a nap, but that wasn't happening with Miss. Jolee she was way to excited to sleep... so we sang some songs while waiting on the rain to stop so we could go to the beach, the one she kept asking for, is her favorite church song "hody, hody, hody" a.k.a. "holy, holy, holy"!

(Jolee doing the splits)

She had a blast in the tent, she jumped up and down on the air mattress, she ran around in the tent, and well I let her run around in her panties, because dude, it was HOT, a little rednecky you might be thinking but people we were camping in the woods!

Jolee jumping on the air mattress!

Before heading to the beach that evening, we had a picnic and Jolee loved that, we had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and chips.

Us girls!

Daddy trying to get a little rest while working on his tan!

The beach was fun! Jolee is a beach girl, that's all she asked about all day...when go to beach, I'm ready daddy! The waves would knock you down they where so strong. We ran on the beach, dug in the sand, played in the water, and also Jolee and her Daddy flew a kite.

This picture is great! This is a serious, these double stuff oreo's are GOOD kind of picture!

Not to much to do when it gets dark and your in a tent, and of course we forgot the cards to play, so Jolee and I were in bed at 9;30 while Silas stayed up studying by flashlight. We were up by 6AM the next morning tearing down the tent and heading back home to get ready for church, so after church it was brought to my attention I was a little grumpy and needed a nap. So now that I am rested up a bit, I will say..... through the heat, through the rain, through the not sleeping well that night....

We had a wonderful family outing. And yes, we will go camping again!!