Our first family camping trip.

This weekend we went camping at Portola State Park. We lucked out with really warm weather during the days, in the mid 80's. This was the first time either Haley or Emily had gone camping. We went along with our friends the Scotts who have daughters the same age as Emily and Haley. Emily was so excited and feeling so good, I don't think she sat still the entire night. We were setup in 3 tents and Emily and Oliva who is also 6 shared their own. They told us they were going to stay up all night, and they tried really hard, but we noticed the lights go out and the chatter stop around 10:30. Tracy and I had Haley in our tent, and Rebecca and Simon and Stella in theirs. It got really cold during the night in the high 40's. I was surprised how well everyone did, we were up at the crack of dawn wiht all those kids, and at one point Tracy and I had all 4 girls with us in a 3 person tent. We had a great time and went on a very short hike today before we ate lunch and went home. Haley fell asleep 6 minutes into the car ride home and Emily about 15 minutes later. We all had a great time but agreed that next time we need to stay for two nights, it's a lot of effort packing and setting up, and it would have been more fun to have more time to hike and explore. It was a good first run for us. Camping with 2 year olds is tough work as well.

Em has labs and an exam this week. She is still not on any medication and will start maintenance offically next week when she will have some Vinchristine IV, and start her 18 month therapy of 6MP.