christmas camping

I hardly know where to begin.  The last 48 hours were so packed -- and so fun -- that there's just a lot to share.  The Christmas wrap up posts may span a couple of days!

We stayed in Kijabe this year for Christmas, and decided it would be fun to host Dexter's family for the weekend.  This includes: his parents, oldest brother Victor and his wife and two children, and middle brother Robert and his wife and two children.  That's 10 extra people in our small house!  I tried to picture how everyone would sleep here for one or two nights, and it wasn't pretty.  Fortunately, the brothers solved this challenge for me by staying home with their wives Christmas Eve and sending just their children. 

Earlier in the year we bought a six-man tent (you know, for all the camping we do) and thought it might be fun for the boys, Aaron and Aidan who are about 11 and 12, to set it up and sleep in it.  A mini camping trip to Kijabe!

 gathering the pieces

 confusion

 Uncle Allan to the rescue!

 Aaron

 cozy

Christmas morning

but where's the snow?

It was a great idea and a great success! Sleeping in a tent is more fun than sleeping on the floor of someone's house any day, right?  Dexter slept out there with them and had a good time. And, fortunately, the Kijabe Wind didn't blow the tent down!