First camp of the year

We bought a new tent earlier this year as our older one was just not big enough for a family of four and a family of fours stuff and playing children on a rainy wet morning! We have been saying 'this weekend we will test it' for ages and something kept coming up.  But the other weekend we managaed to test it out.  

We only went to campsite about 5 miles away, as we could only go for the one night and had to pop back to shut the chickens in their run, but it was a beautiful, sunny, very warm day and overall we had a great time.  It was so lovely to see the boys just having fun and enjoying each others company in a field with hardly any toys or other influences.
They were constantly making up games to play in the relativley empty campsite.  

The tent was great, it felt very strange being in a large tent and we didn't realise when we bought it that it had 2 seperate bedrooms, which wasn't so good, but by the time we all fell asleep after toasting marshmallows then watching some fireworks lit by the campers next to us, no one cared where they slept!

The next day, however was tough, as we all had a lot less sleep than normal, it was very hot and we had to pack up to go home.  We treid to ride our bikes to the beach, but it just didn't work out like that!

The new tent

Happy rowan on the swing next to our tent

This boy sure loves camping!

All that fresh air makes one very sleepy!

Reuben was very excited by something!

'Take a photo of me doing this mum!'

Mummy and Reuben taken by Rowan

Self portrait taken by Rowan

Reuben being his usual silly self!

More ninja poses!

Happy skipping children!

Rowan decided to make up a game trying to throw a small ball into the bucket and if you missed you had to put your hands to your eyes and sigh very very loudly!

So next camping will be further away from home and longer (9 days and 10 nights is Rowans request!)