Katie's Krazy Klan: 1st Family Camping trip

We are not really the camping type. Dan and I have never been camping together in our married ore dating life-never been camping together at all. Neither one of our families were big campers either, but we thought we'd try out our camping skills at the Ward Campout. It was kind of a no brainer-dinner that night, and breakfast the next day was provided. That cuts out most of the hard part right there! All we had to worry about was where we were sleeping, getting there, and clothes to wear. Hailey and Whitney were so excited to go camping. We asked my parents to take Parker for the night (it was going to be really cold...in the 30's), borrowed their tent and sleeping bags, packed up the car with our stuff, and headed out on our adventure. We went up North just outside of Flagstaff. It was very beautiful and MUCH cooler! We mingled w/the other ward members, set up our camp and got ourselves situated. Dinner was soon to follow-hot dogs and hamburgers w/all the fixing. Got the kids settled with dinner on their laps in their camping chairs and then got my own. Hailey wasn't quite herself, tired, is what I thought. I was wrong. Sick was what she really was. She barfed all over the front of her jacket. She just kept asking if she could go to bed. That's exactly what we let her do. Luckily for us, no more vomiting that night. Turns out she had the flu....and had symptoms off and on over the next few days. Whitney wanted to stay with Hailey, so we left the lantern in the tent and let them be-it was now 7:30 pm and both of our kids were down for the night. What a joy-to only take care of ourselves now!! We finished dinner and stayed up until around 11, then went to bed. It was cold that night. Some of the water bottles that were left out froze! It wasn't the best night's sleep, but alright. We got up at 6:30 and headed over to the fire. It was so cold out! The morning was simple, visiting and breakfast, then we were one of the firsts to pack up and leave. I think our babysitters were tired. Hailey was feeling better....but still not very well. We had our first camping experience together. We might try it again, but I think we will wait until all the kids are a little older....and potty-trained.