I went camping with my Girl Scout troop on Friday night (more on that in a minute), Saturday morning Billy took our son Billy upstate for his weekly doctor's appointment and then they roamed around in the mountains up there, and Sunday we went to get Caitlin's Halloween costume and the pumpkin patch. I was thinking how busy all of us bloggy friends are: between family visiting and just having fun with them, party planning, decorating, and wondering who made what this weekend!
Let me tell you, if you have never spent time camping with six nine year olds, you don't know what you're missing! Half of my troop came, and they were so funny and so good. Below were our accomodations:
It's quite cozy. In there were six girls and two other Moms besides me plus one older sister of one of the girls. They had so much fun making crafts, having a bonfire, making smores. There was even a little Fall festival. That's Caitlin below in the cat sweatshirt. She is the tiniest of the campers, my little mousie :)
She walked on monster feet! Not easy to do!
Here she is with her friend Faith.
SMORES! She had decorated her face with foam pumpkin decals too.The smores were great...
Paddle boating in the afternoon. It was just a great way to end the day!
When I got home late afternoon Saturday, I was pooped! The funniest thing happened. The girls were all in the tent with their sleeping bags and us moms were at the picnic table chatting when we hear one of the girls say "Lets play Truth or Dare." So our ears perk up, we are ready to stop the game if we needed to, this is a G rated camping trip....and the first question is to a little girl named Ashley "What is your middle name????" We looked at each other and smiled! hahahahaaha Ashley took the dare. She wasn't telling her middle name! She had to hold her breath for as long as she could. The next question posed to another is "would you go to the store in your pajamas???" and so on and so on and us Moms laughed and rejoiced that our little ones were still innocent and oblivious to most of the crazy world we live in! No worries here at nine years old. And btw, they would go to the store in their pajamas! At least that's what they all said!
Sunday it was the pumpkin patch! We picked a good one to carve...My husband is the master carver of the family :) at least that's what he says! In the afternoon I made some goody bags, and a few more things for the party Friday night. On to the party store -- Caitlin is going to be a devil for Halloween! She picked out a cute costume! However, the horns were so comfortable she kept them on till she went to bed last night!
She can't fool me--I know she's really a little angel!
How sweet are those girls and their truth or dare game questions. Sounds like a busy but fun weekend. I can't believe it's already Monday!
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Woolie HUGS