Camping Fail!

We’ve been trying to go real camping for quite awhile now, but things just kept coming up and it never happened. We started a few months ago by camping in our living room, then in Great Grandma Jensen’s backyard while we were in UT this summer. But this time it was the the real deal, in the middle of October it finally happened and we went camping at Garner State Park. It was a beautiful area and so fun to be in the outdoors together.

While we were setting up camp; Kennedy runs over to this rock, sits down and says, “Hey mom, take a picture of me here.” And posses like that…I guess we take too many pictures of her :)Can you tell she loves these rain boots?  She wears them all the time!

After setting up camp, we put a cake in the dutch oven and headed down to the beautiful river to explore. We had plans to go play in it the next morning, but I’m glad we checked it out when we did.Closest thing we’ll get to a mountain and color changing leaves…

Kennedy loved her princess chair I got for free at Kohl’s. She was also a big fan of the flashlight and made sure I knew who all the princesses were.Zak sacrificing his hand popping the Jiffy Pop for us

Yummy Dutch Oven Chocolate Mud Cake

We also tried out our 72 hour kit meals along with the cake. Then we enjoyed sitting around the fire, the cooler TX weather and looking at the stars together.

Sounds like a perfect night right?  It was until about 10:30 that night when we awoke to Kennedy puking all over the sleeping bags and ME! Zak was spared so he cleaned us up, thank goodness we brought extra blankets! Unfortunately this was repeated the rest of the night, it was awful! Needless to say we were all pretty exhausted the next morning, and I woke up with the nasty bug, so we decided to head for home. It was a long 1.5 hour drive being sick…

Soaking up the last moments in the morning before leavingCutting our losses and heading home! Better luck next time…

A Tangled Halloween

Kennedy loves the movie Tangled, so this year we decided to go with that theme for our family costumes. It was kind of a fun adventure searching the local thrift shops for some of mine and Zak’s costumes, and then we had fun sewing them together one night. When my mom came to visit in October, she helped me make Kennedy’s Rapunzel hair, we had fun doing it together. I even straightened her hair for the finishing touch on her costume.Flynn Rider, Rapunzel and Mother GothelThe Princesses; Kaylee, Kennedy and Allie

Rapunzel and Chandler the Ninja Turtle. Kennedy was so happy she got to go trunk-or-treating with him!At our ward Trunk-or-Treat, Zak even sported the goatee then.

Kennedy loved doing a little trick-or-treating with her friends!

I think Zak fit the part very well!  What do you think?

 

It was a very fun Halloween this year, Kennedy definitely makes all the Holidays way more fun!

Love that cute smile!

It’s tradition to get pictures of Kennedy in her costume sitting by pumpkins in our house, we’ve done it every year since she was a pumpkin at 3 months old. So we had to get some this year too!

She looks so much older with her hair straight, it didn’t last very long though, after one nap the curls were back.

Rapunzel let down your hair!

Fun Tangled Halloween memories for sure!