Backyard Adventure

Since Monday was a holiday, both Daniel and Layla were going to be home at the SAME time!!! This is exciting because it hardly ever happens!

The weather was very nice on Sunday and was forecasted to be nice Monday too, so we made plans to tent in the backyard.

Of course, you can't camp without a campfire! So we made a huge fire and kept it going until late in the night. It was great to finally make a dent in our tree pruning waste pile too.

All of us love fires, so enjoying our firepit is always a recipe for some great family bonding. Daniel even taught us a trick that he used to do when camping. He wraps a plastic grocery bag around the end of a fire poking stick and sets it on fire. Then the plastic melts and drips little drops that make a 'blip' sound. His family calls this a 'Drip Stick'. It was a lot of fun to play around with and learn this new trick.

Everything was going great until it actually came time to sleeping outside in the tent. Layla and I started out first, but even dressed warmly and having almost every blanket out there with us, we were still pretty cold.

Daniel and Dexter joined us out there after midnight sometime. Dexter slept pretty good in the tent! But the rest of us couldn't shake the chill off, so at four in the morning, we all came trooping inside and slept soundly the rest of the night in our own warm beds!

It was still a lot of fun and worth the effort!

I love doing things to break up our normal routines! I'm looking forward to trying this again on some warmer summer nights!