Camping

A couple weekends ago the girls and I went camping with some of my greatest friends.

We got there late on night one and kicked right into making s'mores.

I feel like I'm a roughing it type of girl.

Wait...I should say, I used to feel like I was a roughing it type of girl.

Apparently, I am no longer that girl.

Here were some of the girls sleeping in the tent.

 The blanket looks like it has issues...but those are paint pawprints from my first and beloved dogs...you just can't see it in the picture.

When I crawled in the tent I immediately noticed my air mattress had a leak

I had learned from my short stint at the family reunion that an air mattress is a must...

I forgot to acknowledge that an air mattress without a leak is a must.

Next time....

I woke up in the middle of the night on the hard ground.

With a terrible headache.

Had I mentioned we were camping next to a cornfield.

All by ourselves (the rest of our friends were in a camper)

I am scared of fields of corn

I know...I should move :)

I am scared of a lot of things after dark.

The last scary movie I ever intentionally watched was Children of the Corn.

Scary

I have issues with redheads and fields of corn...if you've seen the movie, you know why.

If you haven't seen it I don't recommend it...

Anyhow.

There I was

Very uncomfortable

Oh and I had to go potty.

So....I got up

Fearless mother I was pretending to be

Telling myself over and over

"There is nothing to be afraid of.  You are a grown woman.  Nothing is out here"

I peed behind the tent.

Nothing came out of the corn for me.

Stumbled over to the car for some alleve.

Nothing got me

Leaped into the tent almost taking the whole thing down.

Woke up a child.

Nothing got me.

Hooked up the outrageously loud air mattress so I could at least fall back asleep.

My hope was that b/w the drugs and my sleep deprivation I could sleep til morning even if the mattress lost all it's air again.

Woke another kid

Settled on mostly filled with air.

Crawled back between the girls.

Apparently I weigh significantly more than them.

I pushed all the air to the side of the mattress which caused the girls sides to poof up and them to roll onto me.

Sigh.

Could this get better?

Yep

It started to sprinkle.

Good times.

I did fall back asleep.

Woke early

Started raining

Grabbed the girls and ran them into the camper

Here's your wake up call you spoiled camper campers

:)

Karri's husband ran that day to get me their air holding air mattress

Night two was far better.

Or I was too tired to know any better

Amy is so sweet--she is gonna make a great momma someday

She brought nail polish and spoiled my girls with some pampering.

Bella napping

Corey, Jana and their kids arrived the next day to set up shop next to me and the field of scary corn.

Jana thought the same thing...just in case you feel like I might be a little unbalanced.

Ta-da!

The place we stayed was lovely.

Miniature golf, pool, peddle (not paddle) boats, and more things I can't think of right now.

Kids ready to swim.

Kids post swimming with fudge pops.

 They put themselves in there...really...

That's Karri's daughter post fudge pop, lol

Chewy, Amy's dog, with her scored hot dog.

Children of the corn.

 See, I told you it was scary.

After we put the kids to bed we played a game of 'would you rather' around the campfire.

It was quite the entertainment....

My breakfast on our final morning.

 Actually 3 or maybe 4 of those.

and a whole lot more

Before we left the adult girls went on one last peddle boat and the boys watched all the kids.

Thanks Corey and Chris!

Bella through an epic fit and then crashed hard.

Poor baby--she doesn't like roughing it either :)