Father and Son Campout

This past weekend, Matt took the boys to the ward father and son camp out. If some of you remember, the last ward "camp out" we attempted ended up with the Roper's at home, making smore's in the microwave, so it was a big deal that they actually went.

Matt grew up with all sisters and I only have sisters as well, so camping in any form was not a big part of our childhood years. We do know, however, we better get camp savvy with at least 3 little boys (and probably more boys to come :)), it is inevitable.

Matt and his friend, Nate who has two boys the exact same age as ours, decided against spending the night, but left here around noon so they could take advantage of having most of the day. All 6 of them piled into our car and headed up to join our ward for an adventure in the mountains/ woods which included:

playing in the creek:


hiking around:

and roasting hot dogs and marshmallows:

My boys LOVE being outside and had a WONDERFUL time. Matt also loved spending special time with the boys. Some of the highlights were: the hours and hours of amusement with the creek and an equal amount of amusement with finding sticks in the woods. Wade, also, thought it was REALLY neat to roast his own hot dog while Seth was perfectly content eating 2 1/2 hot dogs, chips, soda and about 10 marshmallows--yikes!

Matt knew it was time to head home when both kids were crying and begging to leave because it was so cold (they definitely have AZ blood.) They got home around 11pm, tired, happy and DIRTY (these pics don't do justice to how dirty they really were):

It was a great time had by all (with mom enjoying her day off at home as well :)!)