Camping

For my birthday, we went camping at Deer Creek Resevior.

Here are a few of the highlights.

Apparenly in the Baker family, you must have a million drinks in can form. We brought 24 Coke Zeroes for 1 night. We drank half of them...quite literally half. I have a habit of drinking half a can and leaving it, which Rex quickly found. At this point, I probably don't need to mention that Rex hardly slept. He refused to go to bed until 10 and then woke up for several hours in the middle of the night. Funny moment from this: at one point I laid down with Rex to get him to go to sleep and waited until he was pretty calm and then left. He started screaming and then proceeding to locate the zipper in the tent and unzipped it so that when I looked over his little head was poking out and he was screaming. I ended up using him as a pillow to get him to stay still long enough to fall asleep.

Greg has been talking about going fishing all summer. He talks about fishing almost as much as he does about guns. I got this pole for $8 at the BYU yard sale. Greg fished nearly the entire time we were at the lake. We set up the tent. Greg went fishing. We ate dinner, back to fishing. We put Rex to bed, Greg went fishing. We ate smores, Greg went fishing. We ate breakfast, Greg went fishing. How many fish did Greg catch? Almost 2. His line kept breaking. It wasn't heavy enough. Oh dang. Guess we'll just have hamburgers for dinner.
Rex thought the tent was pretty much the coolest thing. He kept going in and rolling around in the pillows and sleeping bags. This one reminds me of a future 16-year-old Rex who's just too cool to be with his family so he texts his friends. This, however, is much cuter.
Wal*Mart and Target hate me, either that or I just waited too long, but when I went to get Rex his own little camping chair they were all sold out. Ok so there was one Disney Princess chair, but you know, Rex is a boy. I was so sad. How cute would his own little chair have been? But this will have to do until next summer, when I will be victorious.
Emma also came on this little adventure with us and because we only have a 2 man tent and I anticipated Rex actually sleeping in his pack-n-play, Greg slept in a hammock. He said it was all right except for all the screaming babies (the 2 campsites nearest us also had babies, so it was a noisy night between them and Rex).
It stormed right as we were leaving so all our stuff got pretty wet. Lame.

Rex is still recovering from his sleepless night and after nearly continuous tantrums all day today, Rex earned himself an early bedtime. Awesome.