Our Night in the Woods...Part 1

Warning: This will be a long post with LOTS of pictures. :)

Finally I have been able to sit down and look at our pictures from our night in the woods and get back to blogging. We have been super busy this past weekend. Thursday night was our big camp out and we had the BEST time! The kids LOVED it! You would not believe how packed down our car was for just one night of camping. There is also a pumped up Ethan, smiling away in the back seat. We arrived at Petit Jean Mountain and went to the overlook first. We explained the story of how Petit Jean got its name and when we were done, Scarlett wanted to dig her up!! Leave that to Scarlett. The views from the top of Petit Jean were amazing! We stayed up there almost an hour taking pictures from all sides.
A happy Ethan in his "KING OF THE WORLD!" pose.
After checking out the top of the mountain we got our keys to the teepee. YIPPY! We were pleasantly surprised and Ethan even said it was better than his dream. The views were great from our teepee. We were right by the lake with a great back "porch" and picnic area. This was going to be FUN!We had a "mini" school lesson and talked about Native American Indian and made our head dresses. They turned out really cute and the kids did a great job. Scarlett would now like to meet a real native Indian so if anybody knows where I can get in touch with one for her to speak with just let me know.After that it was time to start the camp fire. YIPPEE! It was starting to cool off and it was going to be a great night around the fire with the family. We had so much fun. Ethan built a mini fire just for he and Scarlett. He built it just like his daddy's. It didn't burn very long, but long enough for them to roast their own hot dogs. We roasted hot dogs, popped jiffy popcorn, made hot cocoa and smores all around the campfire. How much fun was that! I knew there was no way they were near as hungry as it sounded; but they wanted to "make" all those things since it was so much fun to watch the fire and be cooking over the open flame. Ethan proclaimed at one point that "MAN MAKE FIRE!".If you look closely you can see our Halloween lights wrapped around our deck at the teepee. We had to be a little festive. :)
After all the cooking it was time for bed.. that was where the real adventure began! :) Stay tuned for the morning after...

Thanks for reading if you made it this far...