Girls Stay-Camp....day 1

I've heard people talk about going on a stay cation before....we tweaked the idea into a stay camp!

The boys headed off for scout camp this morning which left us girls (and Liam too) here for the week. We thought we should have a bit of camping fun too.... and so we are.

An impromptu breakfast at the park was the perfect beginning to our week of "at home camp".

Once Liam spotted the purple dinosaur he wouldn't eat a bit more of his breakfast. He just had to ride that big dino toy!

Mmmmm, a yummy breakfast of applesauce and cereal for me!



After breakfast we did a bit of shopping at the local thrift store, then back home for some crafty camp fun.


We created new covers for our journals using a pair of Barry's old jeans. They turned out quite cute. Liam had lots of fun squirting glue all over his bit of jeans and covering the glue with foam cutouts. We planned to make cute flower pens to place inside the front pocket--we'll just have to get them done tomorrow. Gotta have a cute pen to write with in a cute journal!


We still had a bit of the mundane, real life to do....Delaney was quite sure that having to clean the house up wasn't what going to camp was all about. I assured her it indeed was a part of camp life too.

A traditional camp meal---foil dinners. The girls were a bit skeptical as we put them together, but once they were done all three of them enjoyed it....Delaney hopes to eat them again tomorrow night.

We also made blackberry cobbler in a can for dessert. (pictures of this will come later)

What is camp without sleeping in a tent!?! Since the boys took our only tent with them, we improvised and created a tent of our own.

Good Night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the mosquitoes bite!
We hope the boys are having as much fun at their scout camp as we are with our home camp.

Just added....(a day later)
Here is the yummy dessert....cobbler (or for us cake) in a can. It turned out well, but it took a lot longer to bake than I had anticipated.