Father and Sons

I thought that I would take a moment to let everyone know about the first Father and Sons adventure that Samuel and I had this past weekend. It was great. We had a great time exploring and throwing rocks in the near by stream. I was fortunate to get off work a little bit early on Friday so I packed up our things headed up to a place called 'Paradise Canyon' about 30 min from our house. However; on my way up (almost to the campsite) I realized that I had forgotten Samuel's blankets. I was torn, do I drive home and get the blankets or do I let him have my sleeping bag. Luckily I didn't have to do either. I called Audrey and she called a friend, that was about to leave his house, brought a couple of extra blankets for us to use. So crisis avoided.

We finally were able to set up our tent and get situated. Then we headed down to the river where Samuel discovered that there we a lot of rocks. So all he wanted to do was throw rocks into the river. He was in heaven.

It was fun having our friends camping next to us so that I could talk to the other fathers and Sam could play with his friends. We built a campfire and like any good father would do I allowed Sam to eat about 20 marshmellows and 5 starbursts (I made him have a limit on those). Surprisingly he did not have a hard time falling asleep. In fact he was asleep by 9:30pm.

The next morning was full of more rock throwing. I did manage to get him interested in taking a hike with me so we did some exploring of the woods. Then he wanted to go swimming so that is what he did. As you can probably tell, when I am the only watching him he gets to do pretty much whatever he wants to do. This probably is not the best thing but at least he is happy.

All in all it was a good trip and I am excited to continue the tradition of going on these trips every year. I am happy to report that there were no injuries sustained by a member of our party and that everyone went home healthy and happy.

Here are a couple of pictures that I was able to take while there.

Here we are on Saturday morning about ready to go down to the river to throw some more rocks.

Here is Sam playing in the river building a dam with some of the other kids who were there. Yes I did let him play in his pants.