Memorial Day Camping

In our family we have established a tradition that we go camping every memorial day. This year being in AZ I didn't know if we would find any good camping grounds. Low and behold two hours north of us is a great forest area and lots of free space to camp. We had a blast even though the temp was 47 degrees at night ( thank you kelly tate for teaching us about heated rocks in sleeping bags.) All the cousins were there and the kids had a blast running around like crazy people. Uncle Mike took Weston "exploring" and they found some fuzzy caterpillars. The next morning at the crack of dawn Weston got up all disoriented and got out of the tent and started looking for fuzzy caterpillars. We all had alot of fun and can't wait to do it again soon!

Wes and Kallie
The Fam right before we went home ( that's my disclaimer for our disheveled appearance.)

James eating ( which is what he is doing about 80% of the time)

Weston and his new favorite toy- daddy's headlamp! As you can tell by his sticky face- he was loving the marshmellows.

Buying a carpet cleaner

Me and Taylor have been considering buying a carpet steam cleaner for awhile now. We figured that we pay $100 everytime we get the carpet cleaning anyway and we would love to have it cleaned more than we do. Yesterday I was folding bedding and changing it out on the kid's beds when Weston told me that he would play with Jameson downstairs so I could get my work done. This is the first time he has ever offered take care of Jameson and I though maybe we were turning a corner into being able to let Wes help me watch Jamers. I heard them downstairs laughing and playing cars. They were down there maybe 10 minutes and I went down to check on them. Jameson had pooped out of his diaper ALL over the carpet in multiple places- in addition Weston had tried to get Jamers a snack and had dumped out 3 huge bags of malt o meal cereal all over the family room. I had to laugh because of the craziness of this mess. I realized Weston was not quite old enough to be in charge of Jameson but bless his little heart for wanting to help me. After this messy day in our house we decided that we would be buying a carpet cleaner ASAP. We got a bissell one and it was only $118 !!!!!! What were we thinking not buying one sooner? Now we will always have the clean carpets since I am sure we will have more days like the poopy cereal day.