Beach camping

The boys had a Friday off in February, so we decided to go camping.  We tested out how prepared we were with the things we had organized from our last camping trip.  It took us about 7 hours to get ready for that trip, and we wanted to streamline the process for future trips.  We just loaded up our big plastic containers, hoping we had everything we needed.  The only thing we had to get ready was the food, so it only took us maybe an hour to be ready to go.  The only thing we forgot was the pack 'n play for Weston, but we figured he wouldn't want to sleep in it anyway.  We tried having Owen & Weston sleep with me on the double air mattress, but the O & W combo didn't work.  So Alex and Owen ended up together on a single air mattress, which left Westie and me on the big air mattress.  I think I was the only one that didn't sleep well.  It was pretty cold and I spent the night trying to make sure Weston was warm.  He kept crawling out from under the sleeping bag and scrunching up against the side of the tent.  His head would end up down between the air mattress and the side of the tent with his legs sticking up on the air mattress.  I kept pulling him back on.  He does the same thing in the crib - scrunching up against the bed.  Must be a security thing for him.  I didn't hear a peep out of anyone all night.  Besides me being cold sleeping, we had a really pleasant camping experience.  The campground was right next to the beach, so in the morning we had a nice place to hang out.  It was pretty relaxing.  We didn't feel like this trip was too stressful.  I guess being organized helps a lot.  Nathan loved the basketball goal in the campground.  He would have played that the whole time if we let him.  They were all a mess after playing on the beach, but they had fun.  (In one of the collages, you'll see "flat Jaden".  Cousin Jaden sent that to us, and we were supposed to take a picture of him somewhere near where we lived).