Camping!

Well, neither Donovan nor Hayden were selected in the first or second rounds of the NFL Draft. We will see how tomorrow goes, but we are not getting too excited.

The boys are rumbling around the camper this weekend. It is a lot different so far this spring with them in the camper than last summer. The boys just crawl all over, turn on and off the stereo, play under the dinette, and just have a good time moving all around. Last summer, we were absolutely exhausted with only sleeping a few hours at a time, with Melissa often sleeping even shorter spurts. At least we remember what is going on now.

Donovan and Hayden now have their own bedroom in the camper. We removed the bunks from the bunk area, and put their pack-in-plays up there for them to sleep. Melissa and I now have our full bedroom to ourselves and we are not sharing it with a travel crib and a makeshift crib (from an old bouncy chair, that Donovan loved sleeping in since we had nothing else to put him in other than the closet, a dog bed or a drawer). We also don't have a big honking travel swing polluting our family room of the camper any more either which is very nice. Now it just dumping all of the boys' toys back into the ottoman at the end of each night.

Some people accuse of not "roughing it" when we camp. They are wrong. In an effort to demonstrate how we truly rough it when we camp, we decided to get the cables to hook up the Nintendo Wii in the camper. Since it was really cold today, we spent a bit too much time on the Wii. If I can find a table top dishwasher that works (without needing a garbage disposal), then we are set. But we are truly roughing it, because by camping like this, we realize how little you truly need to survive in a home--but a faster internet connection would be very desirable.