One final farewell

To summer that is. Not according to the calendar, but with the start of preschool for Mack fast approaching, it's easy to feel like summer is over as all attention is directed toward school.  Determined to get in one last bit of fun, Mike invited Mackenzie to an end of summer camp out! Excitedly, they made plans and Mackenzie wrote a shopping list which read like this:

                                                        Dinr ( dinner)
                                                        hot dogs
                                                        wood
                                                        smoors ( s'mores)
                                                        chips

Shopping list complete!

After a trip to the store, they set up camp. As tends to happen, things didn't go exactly according to plan but they had fun none the less and even managed to spend the whole night sleeping in the tent. Here are some pictures of the event.

Thanks to the  relentless Colorado sun and heat,our grass is as dead as it can be and we didn't have to worry about  ruining it. So Mike sprayed it down and made an impromptu fire pit in the yard.Unfortunately, with the extra smoke from our tree branches and Mack loudly singing
" We're burning our grass! We're burning our grass!"  for all to hear, we decided to put the
fire out and go in a different direction, lest we alert the attention of the fire department

This is a bit safer

Some of us were less excited than others

We don't need much of an excuse
to pull out the footed jammies around here!

Morning comes pretty quickly , doesn't it Mike?