BABY, it's COLD OUTSIDE!!!! That was what I was saying at 4 am when I woke up and had to tromp to the bathroom, actually I was saying that at 10:30 pm when I put the down comforter over my head to go to sleep!!
Yes, the Simpson family finally went tent camping.....sorta....yes, we were in a tent and yes we were outside but we were only 15 minutes from our house in The Woodlands at Creekside. They provided the fun and food and you just brought your tent and sleeping gear.
David planned for this months out. I thought I was going to get out of it but as the camp out came closer, it really sounded like fun. Of course Olivia started having "issues" with going even though both of us were going. Which is really why I decided to go because Olivia definitely wasn't going if I didn't go. Fortunately, she got over her issues and went and had a blast.
We arrived about 3:00 in the afternoon Saturday. Started setting up our tent only to discover the cover to the tent had been left at home. Thank goodness we were only 15 minutes from home,because back home David went. Good thing he did seeing as the next morning we woke up to a soaking wet tent with frost covering everything left out that night!
We had loads of fun, lots and lots of crafts, an awesome playground, nighttime scavenger hunt, movie, making smores, hot chocolate, popcorn, yummy barbecue dinner, hanging out as a family and of course sleeping in a tent!
It was freezing cold but we survived. This was the Saturday night we "fell" back for daylight savings, we were up at the crack of dawn and our hosts had breakfast ready early. Needless to say we ate and quickly packed it up and headed for home. When we got into the car the temperature in the car said 38 degrees....no telling what it was before the sun came up!
Of course my camera went dead after dinner so I have no pictures of our tent or our lovely sleeping arrangements.
Everyone agrees we must go back next year....especially since we were too tired to play flashlight tag! Which is what the girls were most looking forward too. Poor Emily was ready to go to sleep when we were on the scavenger hunt. We came back made smores had hot chocolate and did a few more crafts and she was begging to go to sleep. I took her to the tent to make the beds up and get dressed for bed. By the time her sisters got there, she was sooo excited about going to sleep she was bouncing off the tent walls!
Everyone fell asleep quickly even though lights out was midnight and there was plenty still going on around us. It was a cold night but the girls slept perfectly, they had two grown ups keeping them very warm!
We made some great memories last night....Thanks Daddy for planning such a fun outing for us! We love you!
