Fall is Here!

Its been cool here this weekend and we have been meaning to give camping a try.  Given the age of little brother and that we haven't ever taken C camping we decided to test drive our adventure in our backyard.  The backyard is one of the main reasons we bought our house so why not utilize it right? Oh yes and I have mentioned Ed's love of fire and his firepit acquired in July(everyone needs a campfire then right?)  So after about 45 mins of locating where our camping equipment had landed in the course of the move we headed outside. 

C was mainly excited about marshmallows but once we cut them off from the sugar high they got excited about the tent and we decided to give sleeping a try.  Something about being inside a tent hyped up little brother; after we read a long story and all tried laying down he started rolling around the tent causing a ruckus; pulling hair, biting, annoying little brother stuff!  So we kicked him out of the tent and back to his crib.  If we didn't have to be in the tent together there is no need to right?? 



Keeping this guy out of the fire was a job for an octopus....needed a few more hands.

Given we had 1 kid inside 1 adult had to sleep inside; so that left C and Mama to do a little girl bonding.  I was exhausted from the week so C and I were snug in our sleeping bags snoozing in the cool VA air by 9:30pm.  It was actually nice but I was missing my memory foam so when C awoke at 1am asking for a kleenex I used the opportunity to ask her if she wanted to go inside to her bed.  She agreed with me and off we went. 

Conclusion:  we could do this in "real time" but we may need to get little brother his own tent !!

On some other news we are updating some other overused equipment at our home.  Ed's gas grill has been faithfully serving us for the past 11 years.  We have even replaced some of the critical parts about half way through its life but the spare parts have been end of life'd(spare parts industry speak) so we knew we would have to upgrade soon.  We are a heavy grilling family and Ed is really good at it: we grill at least 2x per week year round.

Old grill guts...its a wonder we haven't gotten sick

New grill guts

Recall our post about Ed not wanting to spend money? The Lawnmower Well we are doing it again; we bought a new floormodel grill(3 burner with a side burner) on end of clearance discount($100) at Wal-Mart last night.  Ed brought it home today and we haven't given it a go yet. Wish us luck!

Our final fall fun look of the weekend is our littlest Hokie...he yells "Go, Go, Go" at the TV when football is on.