Living Room Campout

Jeremy was out of town one night for a church retreat, so I decided to do something different with the kids...we had a living room campout! We started with your typical campout dinner--hot dogs. Then we made a campfire...you can't eat smores and have a campout without a fire, now can you? We made this fire with the kids' handprints, much like you make handprint turkeys, and glued them to some paper logs.


Next was time for smores! We couldn't decide which was more authentic--eating them by our campfire

or eating them next to a real--albeit tiny--fire, which Reid used to keep them toasty.

After that, Reid said we needed to get in the tent and tell scary stories and make scary faces. Of course, our scary stories and faces both ended up being funny stories and faces, but it still had the same effect.

Blair

Reid


We laid out our sleeping bags and then took our flashlights on a bear hunt to find all the animal friends we wanted to sleep with. The forest ended up being home to more than just bears: we found dogs, bunnies, giraffes, frogs, and ducks too! After watching a few cartoons from our sleeping bags, it was off to dreamland under the stars (aka ceiling fan).

Good night!