Camping Party

As you have seen on previous posts we tend to do something fun Friday nights. Be it a movie and popcorn, a trip to McDonalds, or just making forts. Well, we have upgraded our fort to a real okay, semi real tent. It was $10 at IKEA and would save me the headache of creating a fort all the time. I love it. Well, the kids wanted to sleep in the tent. So I upped the annie and said, "Let's have a camping party." I suggested smores and a campfire. The kids took it from there. They wanted to cut out grass, trees, bushes, the moon, and stars. I told them that I could dress up in dad's fuzzy jacket and pretend I was a bear. I got shut down on that one.

We were all really excited for Friday night. Lacey and I did our shopping that day and were so excited when we found glow in the dark stars to put on our ceiling. I was about to cut out stars and paint them with glow in the dark paint but this was even better. Once Aidan got home from school the cutting and gluing and taping began. They loved it. Then we set up the tent and decorated. Cassidy got into most of it but we did what we could. We had a blast. I especially loved how our campfire turned out.

The smores were good as always and we loved the stars glowing in the dark. It kind of made me home sick. Some of you may not know, but in the room I had for most of my time growing up had a sky blue ceiling with white clouds painted on it and also glow in the dark stars. So during the day it looked like the sky and during the night it looked like the night sky with all the stars and even a big E.T. moon that glowed in the dark. My mom spent hours putting the stars in constellations on the ceiling initially for when my older sister was living in the room. I loved falling asleep to what seemed like the real sky. It was magical. They still glow to this day. So I did my small rendition of some constellations and put each kids initials in "our sky".

The best part of our camping party............I still got to sleep in my own bed. My kind of camping!