Backyard Camping for Cameron's Birthday- 5/2013

Cameron's birthday is in July, pretty close to Caelan's.  But Cam goes out to his dad's in Oregon for the summer and wasn't going to be here.  So we celebrated it early- we had the Bradway family over as well and we cooked our meal on the fire pit, had sparklers and fireworks, and finally a sleepover in the tent!  Pastor Joe was sick so he and Joshua didn't spend the night.  It was a great time all around though celebrating Cameron's 6th Birthday!

Party Favors for all 3 boys-  I bought balloons and put stickers on them to personalize for each boy.  Cameron's had a 6 on it as well.  They each got a sand bucket, pinwheels, inflatable ball, and a handful of other things to start some summer fun!

The sandbox.... always a hit.

Pastor Joe starting the fire

Cameron's chair and Joshua's

Joshua with Erika and Kendra

Above-  DINNER!  Matt cooks literally the entire meal over the fire!  That foil is full of veggies, and there are hot dogs and brats down on the other end of the table.  Delicious!

Cameron was very interested in all things Titanic at the time so the cake is from the movie.

Opening his cards  

Mr. Dan throwing the ball with Caelan

FIRE!

 .... and out come the sparklers- the boys LOVED them!

Kendra trying not to die from smoke inhalation

Aaannd the big boys bringing out the actual explosives

 Caelan, Cameron (middle) and Joshua

Round two of cake- perfect bedtime snack, right?

Into the tent

lanterns lit, everyone gets settled in....

Cameron and his Papa/Dan 

 

 Caelan and Daddy... and Bear of course

 

And then Dan read "Curious George Goes Camping to them"

 

 

I took the video while standing on the porch- they were all settled into the tent and I had been ousted by then.  But I thought the whole moment was so sweet!

 

They made it through the night really well... even through the rain! Well until it finally made it INTO the tent around 5:30 in the morning.  Then they all came into the house and slept for a couple extra hours.