Camping Fun!

On Thursday we packed up and drove to Sequoia National Park to go camping with Sean, Amy, Kirk, Heidi, and Amy's mom, Joy.  We had a great time and the kids were quite well behaved.  Thursday night shortly after arriving at the campsite, Connor started to act really miserable.  Of course this is out in the middle of nowhere with no cell reception.  We crushed up part of a tylenol and managed to get him to eat it with some applesauce.  By the morning he was back to his perky self.  Friday morning we ventured to the Giant Forest, visited General Sherman tree, played in the snow, went to a small museum, and hiked to Beetle Rock(shortest hike ever-perfect for two, three year olds).

 Friday morning before breakfast

It was quite cold in the morning and very cold at night....Heidi insisted on going around without a jacket and shoes most of the time.

Chloe getting breakfast

Kirk and Connor playing on a rock

Heidi joins the group.  At one point Connor says, "Are you all buckled up?"  When asked where they were going, Connor replied, "Costco."

Okay so we ventured up to 6000 feet and all of us left our heavy jackets back at the campsite.  So we all froze in the snow.  The kids though, managed to have a snowball fight and got very wet.

Connor liked the big trees

Connor and Daddy trying out Daddy's new hiking contraption...the piggy back rider.

Studly men

Chloe and Mommy

Here's the top and bottom portion of General Sherman

 This is on top of Beetle Rock...Sean is photo bombing our picture

 Connor climbs up the rock like a spider

 On the top at last

 While we were out and about we picked up wood from downed trees to take back to the campsite.  Amy read in one of the pamphlets that they handed us, that we're not allowed to take in our own firewood to the campsites and instead we're supposed to break off wood from downed trees.  Of course this is after Sean and Amy already bought a $10 box of 4 pieces of wood, that we burnt the night before. 

 So Saturday night we had a great fire going...and then Joy and Heidi fell asleep while we were telling spooky stories.

 Kirk fell asleep shortly after this picture was taken.

 Chloe was just as happy as could be.

 Connor was exhausted!

 Saturday morning Kirk and Heidi played with Chloe

 Kirk and Heidi helped roll all of the air out of the tent.

 When the cars were all packed up, we went for a little hike down to this river.  There was poison oak all over the place, so I didn't go terribly close to the water.

 We walked over this canal and thought it would be a great place to go tubing.  We ran into a guy that works in the area and he said he has seen people tube in it before. 

 Then we headed back to the car and drove down toward the visitor center.  On the way Connor requested that we stop at Tunnel Rock, so we did.

 After Tunnel Rock, we went to the visitor center and then headed home.

We stopped for lunch/dinner around 4ish at Wendy's near Magic Mountain.  Connor refused to eat anything, so we bribed him with a frosty.  He ate about 3 or 4 bites in the car and then started having a coughing fit and threw it up.  Peter pulled him out of the car and cleaned him up as he was spitting up more stuff on the street.  Mind you we parked right by the drive thru...people got dinner and a show.  Peter took Connor to urgent care today...Connor has a double ear infection, which he's likely had for some time now.