Camping at 10 months
We just finished a big weekend at the O'Connor house. Actually, we didn't spend any of the weekend at our house, we were at Great Sand Dunes National Park, in southern Colorado, camping with my (Sarah's) whole family.
My brother-in-law, Paul, is a outdoorsman through and through. He loves everything about the outside from running to adventure racing to camping, and he even works for the National Park Service. While the rest of us are not "natural-born" campers, we agreed to go for a weekend of outdoor fun. Ryan and I went to the dunes with Kati, Paul and Wyatt two years ago. This time we had two more babies, and our parents with us. Needless to say, it was quite interesting.
The weather did not exactly cooperate for us and we struggled to keep ourselves warm for a lot of the trip. We did end up having a lot of fun, cooking, roasting marshmallows, playing games (even inside our tents) together. Paul and Wyatt made it to the top of the dunes (quite impressive!) battling really strong winds and blowing sands for most of the trek. John Paul had a good time. He tried and loved kiwi, and got TOTALLY dirty.
You can check out the pictures below for some evidence of our fun.
Daddy and JP snuggling on a cold camping morning.
Wyatt was our tree climbing monkey, banana and all!
Mama's with their babies, some more excited than others for the dunes!
This is what happens when you are getting teeth and have a runny nose,
but love crawling in the dirt and go a little too fast, making you face plant!
He was okay, and it was too funny not to take a picture!
The day we left for our trip was also JP's 10 month photo shoot. It really is getting ridiculous trying to keep him in one place for these. Here's the best shot that I got. It is the first picture I took. If you want to see the madness that ensued after this picture check out our latest snapfish album (let us know if you didn't get it and would like to). Good thing we only have two more months to go! (I'm stopping at the 1 year mark).
I should've stopped after the first shot, the rest are a disaster!
You have to save that picture of JP in the dirt for his high school senior video. Classic!
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Hi Mr.O'Connor
Looks like you guys had a good time and I hope
that you guys have a great summer. Thank you for teaching me many valuable things. I will be sure to use all those valuable things in my life.You really are a GREAT teacher and thanks again for everything!
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Thanks Yvette! AMDG. It was truly a blessing for me to have you as a student. You will be greatly missed at St. Rose. It's great to hear from you. How is your new school? St. Gemma, pray for us.
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hi mr.o'connor these pictures of john paul are adorable. i hope you like your new school your going to teach at. come and visit us soon!!!we all miss you a lot.
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wow Mr.O your baby boy is growing up he is so adorable =)
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