Fathers and Sons

Russ took Vincente on to our Stake's Aaronic Priesthood commemoration father-son campout. This was forever ago (I think the first weekend in May), but I haven't posted the pictures! Crazy me. Anyway, these pictures will be a nice little break from my 3.1MP pictures, since they are from our old camera. In fact, I think I broke the camera just after I uploaded these pics to my computer. Looking at them makes me really really miss my old camera... *tear*

I could tell by the state of Vincente's clothes that he had a great time at the campout. There was no reason he couldn't get as filthy and muddy as he wanted to! Hey, that's what camping is for, right?

Apparently Vince had a great time running around with Bradley and Connor. Of course. Vincente idolizes those boys. They are his very favorite people in the entire world (besides Mamãe and Papai, of course).

There was actually some adventure to this campout. The people Russ was supposed to be sharing a tent with never showed up, and he didn't find out until after the gates had closed at the campground.

Well, after going back and forth between them coming home (which would have been a big bummer!) and me taking them a tent, we decided that I would buy a tent and go take it to them. So I did, and afterward I hung out with Trisha til way late (that was probably the latest night out I have had since before I was married!) and then we went to IHOP the next morning - just us and the baby girls. It was a real treat to have time out with friends without the little kids around and without feeling guilty for leaving our hubbys at home.

Now of course, the first questions I asked when the boys got home were about Vincente's behavior. Was he good for you? Did he like camping? Then about his eating while he was there. Did he eat well? What did he have for breakfast? Geez. I can't even relax about being a mom when my kid is off camping. I am just uptight about knowing everything about my kids - what they're doing, what they're eating, etc etc

We bought Vincente his first sleeping bag - of course it had Lightening McQueen on it! He loved it! I'm so glad his first camping experience was a success - that means that we will definitely be camping more. I hope so, anyway. Funny, my two-year-old kid got to go camping with Papai before I did! It's rediculous that Russ and I both love to camp so much, and neither of us have been camping since before we got married.

Life gets busy, I guess. We were crazy busy before - school, work, and having babies. Now we are in military training where we only have so many days off, and they are all pre-decided. None of this "Let's take a few days off and go camping!"

We even planned a camping trip for Memorial Day weekend that we had to cancel because the Presidio decided that they would use a "training holiday" to train the soldiers... and then they didn't even have to do anything anyway! Russ took a drive on his bike with some buddies. Sounds like they were really concerned with everyone being at the training... ha.

So our camping experience will have to wait. Maybe 4th of July weekend? We shall see... they'll probably do another "mandatory" training.