Darin asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday. He had 4 days off and wanted to do something fun. We had so much fun as a family camping a few weeks ago, and it wasn't too expensive so that is what I wanted to do. Thankfully we had friends that wanted to go as well. (Thank you Riley for organizing the WHOLE thing!) We went to World's End State Park which is located 2.5 hours north of Allentown.
We decided to go up on Thursday and stay until Saturday. I am so happy we did that. Even though there is more preparations with food, it was so much more enjoyable! Besides I had SO much help from the Nasharoo!
The Ockerman and Barnes families stayed Thursday night then the Lees, Smith and Lamb families joined us on Friday. All the families were from our ward and such a great combination. Everyone got along and the kids played great!
Darin likes to play in the fire and did great getting us some good coals for our yummy foil dinners! It was a bit hard since the wood Riley collected was a bit WET! ;)
Poor Amy was a bit homesick for her mom who could only come up for an afternoon. This camping group had mostly young children who just idolize the Ockerman kids.
There was a lot of running and screaming in this group. They found many creatures, including yucky frogs and slithery salamanders. Sometimes I wondered who was more excited about them the kids or the dads. Darin was so upset when one of the LITTLE girls asked to hold the frog he caught and then refused to give it back...haha...poor Darin, he has such a hard time sharing!
We found this huge dragon on the way out of town. Nash fell in LOVE and toted it around all over camp. I lost him a couple of times only to find him wandering the woods flying his dragon. When he ran after the kids he was often flapping his arms and growling...he has bit of an imagination!
Side story: Thursday night Nash had bit of a hard time falling asleep. I stayed with him for about 30 minutes and he was showing NO signs of getting tired. I told him I was going to leave and he needed to lay down and try to sleep. I zipped the tent thinking that he wouldn't be able to find his way out. As we were sitting around the fire Darin heard something over by our tent so he shined the flashlight towards our tent. There making his way down to us in footy jammies and blankie in hand was the Nasharoo. It scared me so bad, I can only imagine if he wandered off alone in the dark. He ended up sitting by the fire until he fell asleep in my arms...just where I like him. :)
We decided to go up on Thursday and stay until Saturday. I am so happy we did that. Even though there is more preparations with food, it was so much more enjoyable! Besides I had SO much help from the Nasharoo!
The Ockerman and Barnes families stayed Thursday night then the Lees, Smith and Lamb families joined us on Friday. All the families were from our ward and such a great combination. Everyone got along and the kids played great!
Darin likes to play in the fire and did great getting us some good coals for our yummy foil dinners! It was a bit hard since the wood Riley collected was a bit WET! ;)
Poor Amy was a bit homesick for her mom who could only come up for an afternoon. This camping group had mostly young children who just idolize the Ockerman kids.
There was a lot of running and screaming in this group. They found many creatures, including yucky frogs and slithery salamanders. Sometimes I wondered who was more excited about them the kids or the dads. Darin was so upset when one of the LITTLE girls asked to hold the frog he caught and then refused to give it back...haha...poor Darin, he has such a hard time sharing!
We found this huge dragon on the way out of town. Nash fell in LOVE and toted it around all over camp. I lost him a couple of times only to find him wandering the woods flying his dragon. When he ran after the kids he was often flapping his arms and growling...he has bit of an imagination!
Side story: Thursday night Nash had bit of a hard time falling asleep. I stayed with him for about 30 minutes and he was showing NO signs of getting tired. I told him I was going to leave and he needed to lay down and try to sleep. I zipped the tent thinking that he wouldn't be able to find his way out. As we were sitting around the fire Darin heard something over by our tent so he shined the flashlight towards our tent. There making his way down to us in footy jammies and blankie in hand was the Nasharoo. It scared me so bad, I can only imagine if he wandered off alone in the dark. He ended up sitting by the fire until he fell asleep in my arms...just where I like him. :)
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