The Dehrings

This little girl will be a Big sister in February. Our due date is 02.13.2011. All three of us are extremely excited!

The weather down in North Carolina was  extremely hot. Thursday night, Tim’s Aunt invited us to go to a blue-grass concert with her and her mother. Of course we accepted

When we arrived in Sanford, we did some looking around and had a great dinner at Cafe 121. When dinner was finished, we were heading over to the concert, but we did not realize that it was pretty much over.  Of course, the train caught Kalyssa’s attention. We let her look around on it and then she noticed other kids playing in the water fountain.

The fountain

Kalyssa was a little questionable about the whole fountain at first. She was not quite sure what was happening or what she was supposed to do.

Beginning water play

After a few minutes of getting a feel for the water, she warmed up to it and had a ball.

Soak and wet

What a wonderful way to cool down after having some of the hottest heat down there. After this, she went home and pretty much hit the sack.

Oh my goodness, I have not been camping is such a long time. The last time I remember going camping was when I still lived at home with my parents. Boy, that was some time ago.  That was the time  raccoons ate all of our food on the first night camping. Remember that one mom and dad???? Hehe!

We decided that while we were on vacation in North Carolina, that we were going to save ourselves some money and go camping instead of booking hotels and etc. In order for us to do that, we borrowed a tent from my parents that has not been used in a while. (Thanks mom and dad).

We finally made it to Cape Woods in Buxton, North Carolina around 2pm on Sunday the 20th. We got the tent out of the car and started removing it from the bag. Well we did come to a bit of a problem. Everything was in there except for the cover for the top of the tent. So we went with our only option, head to the hardware store and get a tarp. Yes! We had a tarp covering our tent for the few days we were there.

Our ghetto tent... but it worked!

Another great thing about this camping trip, Kalyssa experienced it for the first time. I was very skeptical at first, I honestly did not know what was going to happen. However, she actually did a wonderful job. She really loved it and told me that she wanted to do it again. (Just what I was hoping to hear from her ).

Enjoying camping

Here is Kalyssa and I after getting up one morning….

Kalyssa and mommy

(Yes it is a scary picture, but it is the memories that count).

One of my favorite things about camping, is making food outdoors. We did not get to cook over our own campfire, but we did cook over a grill. We made hamburgers, hot dogs, and steak. It was all yummy!

Tim cooking burgers

Tim did get a fire started however, Kalyssa and I did miss it. Kalyssa was tired and I went to lay down with her and the next thing we know it is morning.  Our camping neighbors did get a little upset due to the fact that they went out and bought $40 worth of wood for a fire and could not get one started while Tim was sitting and watching ours.  All of Tim’s instructions on how to build a fire, as a boy scout, really helped out. I know, I was a girl scout, but I do not like the whole fire thing. Sorry .

Our sleeping quarter was pretty tight, but we made it. There was three of us on a queen size blow-up mattress. However, it worked just fine for us.

Kalyssa sleeping

All in all our camping trip was wonderful. We had a great time and hope to do it again.