townsend goes camping!

i know i'm getting a bit out of chronological order here. but i realized i had forgotten to write about townsend's first real camping trip. gran and pawpaw were visiting and told norton and i to go away for a night and they would take care of the kids. AWESOME! since we were going to be going away for our 10th anniversary though, we decided to take townsend and go camping. we aren't used to having just one kid with us and it seemed like a fun thing to do. we went to golden gate canyon state park. about a 45 minute drive from our house. and a really nice campground. we picked our site and started putting up the tent. townsend helped of course. he also collected lots of sticks. right after we got the tent up it started to rain so we stayed in the tent getting everything organized. after the rain stopped we went out and started to get the fire ready. once again, townsend did his job as stick collector. we made dinner, went for a walk, and then started the fire. we were so excited to introduce him to smores. he took a few bites but wasn't as wowed as you would think. since it didn't get dark until around 9pm townsend got to stay up waaaaaay past his bedtime. it's hard to go to sleep in the light. he slept pretty well. had a couple of cry outs. and was up at his normal 6am. so much for sleeping in. we ate breakfast and then realized that townsend had vacation Bible school that morning. so we quickly packed up and headed back to denver. it was a really fun time with townsend. we are trying to gear ourselves up for taking the whole family now.






it was well past his bedtime and he looked so tired but he would not go to bed. he just sat/slumped like this for awhile.

he loved drinking hot chocolate from the big person mug.
our little camper. so handsome.