Mission Accomplished

It was a nice weekend.  Both our daughters, my sister, and our son-in-law came to visit.  Saturday morning after eating breakfast, we ventured outside to put up Evan's new tent.  There were some fun times going on that weren't captured with the camera and ones that were captured.  But, due to remaining anonymous and stating to the fact they didn't want their faces on this blog, I did not post them.  Here we go.......setting up the tent.

Putting up the tent and putting things inside the tent (cots, stove, kitchen center) was a lot of fun but we also had to put up with this....................

But, then again, there's nothing to worry about............it's all been taken care of and it's in the bag....sorta.



And just for the fun of it. after putting up the tent, we also put up the portable shower.

Between processes, my sister was sitting outside while Evan went to town to pick up some tent pegs and the rest of us were in the house. While in the house, the phone rang and when I answered it, I heard a very low, whispered voice say........the buck is on the lawn. I wasn't quite sure what was going on so I repeated....the buck is on the lawn. The whisper came back.............yes. So we got the camera and went to the window to take pictures. It's kind of hard to see but my sister (circled in red) is sitting on the left-hand side of the picture and the buck (also circled in red) is standing on the right-hand side. She was so excited that you might have thought she won the lottery.

After a long day, we enjoyed cooking hot dogs over a nice, (ahem) blazing fire. We were going to start a fire in the fire pit but the mosquitoes were starting to come in pretty thick so we didn't want to start a big fire in case we couldn't enjoy it so we opted to building a fire in the rocket stove. When all was said and done, the mosquitoes weren't too bad so we even ate our meal of baked beans, hot dogs, and potato chips outside.

After a long day of fun, you know, we didn't even sleep in the tent.  I think we were all just a little tired and thought the comforts of our nice, cozy beds sounded much more appealing.  But, at least one good thing came out of it.......we definitely learned how to put up the tent.  Mission accomplished.