The Rogers' went camping?!

That's right, we went camping!! We bought a tent about 7 years ago, when we were first married, because I grew up camping and loving it. I thought I could convince Chris to go, because we live near tons of awesome camping sites. However, Chris' idea of camping is sleeping with the window open. Needless to say, our tent has never been used. That is until this last weekend. And here's the crazy part: it was Chris' idea!

About 2 months ago I convinced Chris to take Liam on the Father-Son Camp Out our ward does every year. They packed up and left for their Guy's Night, and Nolan (too young to go) stayed home with Mommy. Nolan and I had a fun Girl's Night with friends, pizza, nail polish, and cheesecake. Chris and Liam had a ton of fun, too. Chris was on the computer looking at camping equipment within minutes of getting back from the camp out! Here are some pictures of all the fun they had.

Father-Son Camp Out 2011 with the Snow's

Chris and Liam tagged along with a friend/neighbor and his 2 boys.


Timmy, Spencer and Liam eating dinner.



They slept in the Snow's very nice tent.



Liam playing in the tent.




They went swimming in a hot springs pool that had a slide (jealous)! I guess Liam had no fear when it came to the water and would run and jump into the pool, even if Chris wasn't around (scary!)!

The Hot Springs Pool




And cereal for breakfast.








Camping with the Martins July 2011


Our little family.




We decided to stay close to home (just in case things went bad) and invited some friends to join us.


The Martin's




Mommy and Nolan.




The guys making a fire.



Liam and Daddy roasting hot dogs and cheddar wursts (yum!).



For dessert we had Smores (of course) and roasted Starbursts. I'd forgotten how much I love Smores (so, so good!). Roasting Starbursts was a first for us and we really liked them too.

Liam liked the Smores too!



Nolan trying to eat graham crackers with his friend Annie. She only wanted to eat his. :)



Bedtime = The boys went to bed really easy and we were hoping they would sleep-in. Haha, what were we thinking! We stayed up until 1am talking, not very smart because the boys woke up at 4:30am! Nolan finally went back to sleep at 5:30am, but Liam wouldn't lay down at all, so I took him on a walk. We hiked about a 1/2 mile when I thought I smelled a bear (I've heard they're very smelly). I started to freak out, so I grabbed Liam and we headed back down the trail as quick as we could. On the way, I realized I was holding a very smelly baby bear in my arms. I didn't get attacked but I did have to change my little bear's stinky diaper. Haha.


We made a hot breakfast over the fire. (Chris says: This was seriously my favorite part. The fire was kinda dying down, so we had to add little strips of wood to get it going again and some of Chrissa's really nice pot got melted, but it wasn't damaged too bad. Cooking over a fire and having hashbrowns, egg, and bacon in a tortilla was super good. Seriously. My favorite part of camping.)



Nolan trying to escape our tent.



All in all we had an amazing time. Though we'll probably be investing into a bigger tent and an air mattress before we go again.