Ryan is Eight! A Camping Party

My little Ryan turned Eight!  Eight!  Time is flying by!

He told me this year he wanted a "Real all boy camping party.  Non of that fu fu matching stuff"  lol!''

So we sat down and he told me all the stuff he wanted to do.  Just good ol' boy stuff.  :)



He did ok me on a camp shirt since that is actually what you get when you go to real camp.  lol!  So I made these cute invites and attached a "Camp Anderson" shirt  that I had made up along with a checklist of what to bring.  I delivered each boys invite to the home while they were at school.  I hear they were mighty excited to come home and find them.  :)




Campsite was our back yard.  The tent was up at check in.  The fire pit even had real wooden logs to sit on!




I gave out the Goody Bags first as each boy arrived since they would be needing it during camp.  I found these awesome real US Army Radio Pouches online and made them into backpacks.  I stuffed a water bottle, poncho, flashlight, glowstick necklace, parachord surival braclet & a fun army parachute guy.  They also got a bucket & net.   






As each boy arrived  they found their bag, signed the camp flag & started decorting their own hiking stick  (a 1/2in wooden dowel rod)  with sharpies, twine and wooden beads.


My sweet neighbor boy scout came over and gave the boys a lesson on reading a compass.  The boys filled up the water bottles and then they were off on a hike.  A trip to the to the pond to go exploring followed.  They found tadpoles,fish & frogs!








There was a 100% chance of rain that day.  lol!  Sure glad we had our ponchos! 





The boys made their way back to camp  for some yummy hamburgers & hotdogs followed by cake.  Then a dip in the swimming hole.








There was lots & lots of Army playing all night.  lol!  Boys will be boys!  The sporatic rain did not stop them one bit.





We settled down for campfire where we made some yummy s'mores.







The boys had fun taking turns telling stories and singing crazy songs around the fire.  haha!  It was so much fun!





About 11:30pm a Giant storm came though, so we moved inside to sleep.  My house had a lovely campsite oder the next morning.  haha!  It was well worth it though.  It was so much fun!  The kids had a great time at CAMP ANDERSON!

Happy birthday sweet Ryan!