About Me

Washington, DC, United States
Heather Capell Bramble is mother of two kaleidoscoping kids, Jonah and Vera. She has a magical kaleidoscope, often in her back pocket, and it usually helps her turn her normally chaotic life into something beautiful. Her goal is to have as much fun and try to be as happy as they can while on the uncharted journey of motherhood. This means doing lots of arts and crafts, going on crazy adventures, and celebrating all kinds of holidays - and yes, trying to laugh along the way!

Friday, September 21, 2012

Camp Shabbot!

We still have some posts left over from August to get out of the way, and this one is a Shabbot one - so here it is!  Happy Friday everyone!  And Shabbot Shalom!

In the midst of our less than august August, I decided we needed a good dose of backyard camping fun!  We went all out - we had a super deluxe tent with 3 "fold down flaps" that had a lake, a cookout station, and a forest trail on them.  But that wasn't all.  It also came with whole a set of cooking out paraphernalia including a little camp fire that lit up and made noise, and a whole set of camp out pots, pans, cups and canteen!  We also had lawnmowers, horse shoe game, golf, watering cans, a little set of table and chairs perfectly sized for my Jonah & Vera.  Their chairs were froggys!  They also had matching red Elmo camping hats!  We had breakfast, lunch, snacks and shabbot dinner in the backyard at our camp site!  We BBQ'd a dinner of super camp food - hot dogs!  And yes, after dinner we even toasted some s'mores over a little flame!

During the afternoon Jonah & I made butterfly nets from recycled stuff - a big milk jug, paper towel holder and a plastic netting bag that some pool toys came in.  It was fun to make them and even more fun watching the kids trying to catch the butterflies!

It was a good old fashioned camp out in our little backyard. While August may not have been august, we still managed to have our share of fun!

ready for breakfast

our tent



horseshoes





mowing


 




A little milk break!

 
sweeping up a bit

watering the plants

making the butterfly nets





golf


shabbot dinner



after dinner camping fun


and now some smores!




long good day camping!


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