Our Camping Trip

Dave is such a great Daddy, and a wonderful provider for our family so Isabelle and I really wanted to do something special for him for Father's Day weekend. Last Father's day we bought him a tent and he still has not used it (he even asked for one). So we decided to put it to good use and go camping!!

Dave is not a huge fan of the hot weather, and he has a hard time sleeping in abnormal circumstances so I had to do a slight modification to my camping idea. I looked into renting a portable A/C unit so that we could camp in our backyard but it was so expensive. It was pushing 100 degrees outside so we opted to spend the weekend camping int the game room upstairs. I was trying to surprise Dave with the idea so that when he got home the tent would be up and ready to go. I took the tent out started to put it together and was having one heck of a time, I worked on the thing well over and hour before finally realizing that the center hub was missing. Thank God we were not out in the wilderness somewhere with missing pieces to the tent. So after many phone calls to the manufacturer and Academy Sports I finally had to take a trip up to Academy to exchange the darn thing. (That in itself was a huge fiasco that I am not willing to discuss anymore, let's just say I am upset with Academy). When I finally get back to the house with the new tent I started to put it together. For those of you would have ever put a tent together by yourself you know it is near impossible. Not to mention I have a toddler who wants to "help", and a big doofy dog that wants to help by laying on the thing while I am trying to pop it up.

I finally managed to get the thing up and the cutest thing happened. I told Isabelle that I was going to run downstairs and get Mommy and Daddy's bed (a blow up matress). When I came back up I found her in her room trying to pull her bed. She said that she was going to put Isabelle's bed in the tent.. How cute!! So I put her matress in for her, and then went down stairs to get a few more things. When I got back up stairs she had all of her babies lined up in the tent, and had pulled in her blankets and pillow. She was so excited about camping, and loved every minute of it.




Isabelle loves her Tootsie (sometimes), I am sure by the looks on Tootsie's face thats he loves her back =)


Daddy and Isabelle went fishing at the local watering hole while we were camping


We made s'mores and I was almost attacked by a bear in the middle of the night when I went to the bathroom. Camping was dangerous, but a lot of fun!! This may have to be a new Father's Day tradition.