Camping in the Great Outdoors

I love to camp. Now that I'm not a kid anymore, I like it a little better with an air mattress to sleep on. I love the campfire and foil dinners and sleeping in the fresh air. Shaun and I have been wanting to take Annie and Alex camping since it started warming up, but getting to the campgrounds just wasn't going to happen. So we decided to do it in the backyard. Shaun taught the kids how to put up a tent.
After that we had a wild life lesson. We stumbled upon a robin's nest in the backyard. By lifting Alex up on our shoulders he could peer inside the nest... three little blue eggs. The mom wasn't happy about our invading her space. We explained to Alex and Annie the obvious about a mother's protective instincts over her babies. Then we learned how to make foil dinners. I've been making these as a kid, but my neighbor suggested putting butter in the foil and it made it that much better. We cooked them in the oven and not in a fire, and they were delicious.
When it got dark it was time for bed. It was luxury camping. Annie and Alex slept on toddler mattresses and Shaun had a blow up one. I'll admit that at about 6 months pregnant, I slept in my air conditioned house on my nice soft bed with 5 pillows. But Shaun said the kids fell right to sleep looking at the stars and the few fireflies we have so far.