Let's Camp!

We went camping!
I'm sure no one is surprised.
Tyler and I were excited
to take our new car camping.
We figured it was going to make
a lot of things easier.
We were right!

Here was our campsite:

Kale was Mr. Helper

and did a great job

listening to Tyler's instructions

on what they needed to do to 

set up the tent.

We brought our air mattress

for Tyler, Kale, and me.

We made a little blanket bed

for Ellory, because she would

DEFINITELY fall off the mattress.

We got the kids their own little camp chairs.

 

And Kale helped Tyler start the fire.

 

The kids were so cute and had a blast.

For dinner we roasted Kale a hot dog.

Ellory only eats 3 things so we brought 

her a sandwich.

Tyler and I had tinfoil dinners.

They were DELICIOUS.

And we made s'mores for dessert!

It started getting chilly,

but we were prepared.

The kids were getting bored,
so I folded them some paper airplanes.
That entertained them for a bit..

I also brought some paper and crayons
for them to stencil leaves with.
I didn't snap a picture of that though.

We made it through the night
just fine.
It was pretty chilly, but we stayed warm.
In the morning,
Tyler made us some hot chocolate!

I don't really remember what else we did

for breakfast other than that I brought

yogurt for the kids.

Remember that. 

It's important.

As the morning went on it started

to drizzle on us a bit.

Thank goodness for these umbrellas

Nana gave the kids at the coast!

So we decided to pack up 

and go before it started to really rain.

We put the kids in the car

and turned a movie on the ipad

so we could pack up faster.

On the car ride home we left the movie

going for them.

The camping area was VERY twisty,

and not friendly to those of us

who get car sick.

Well, we didn't even think about the kids

getting extra car sick watching a movie

while we went through this part.

But Ellory reminded us,

but puking up her strawberry yogurt.

Boy was that fun to clean up.

And it got into every little crevice

of her carseat.

And on our new car!!!

Poor Tyler was so grossed out by 

the smell when he was cleaning up

that he had to take a minute to 

puke on the side of the road.

And when we got back on the road,

we turned the movie off,

for obvious reasons.

So Ellory proceeded to scream

for the next 20 minutes

until she finally screamed herself to sleep.

And, the smell in the car was so

bad we had to have the windows cracked,

which made for a chilly ride.

Yay camping!

Kale did a kids football camp

put on by Western Oregon University's football team.

He loved it.

They had different stations where

they learned how to do different football things

like tackling and catching and passing.

The athletes did a really good job 

with the kids and made it 

fun for them.

I was impressed.

Tyler had the opportunity to work 

the Olympic Trials!

Eugene hosted it,

because it's Eugene.

Tyler went down there for 4 to 6 to 8

hour shifts,

and got to rub shoulders with some

OLYMPIANS.

Pretty cool, if you ask me.

I'm really proud of Tyler
for putting himself out there
and wanting to do everything he can
to improve in his profession.
He's pretty awesome!