camping

O’Neill Campout

April 17, 2019 by Rebecca Whitehead

Jake and the twins embarked on yet another fun campout with our local Adventure Guides group, with the Rainbow Sky Expedition. The twins are in the Pink Panthers circle and look forward to their daddy daughter camping time! This campout was just a few minute away at O’Neill regional park, so because it was so close, Meredith joined for a day and I picked her up at night.

The dads in this group are pretty impressive creative planners and the theme for camp was “Role Reversal”. It started off with the girls getting to sit in Jake’s lap as they helped park the car into the campsite.

Their favorite activity was the Bippity Daddy Boutique – where dads had a spa day and then walked the Runway in their beautiful makeup and nail polish. The twins won for best makeover!

Scary.

Another activity was “End of our Rope” – a chance for daughters to lead their blindfolded dads through a crazy rope course, connected by a piece of rope the girls got to make.

There was also “Daughters Save the Dads” – a challenging set of puzzles needed to be solved to keep dads from going in the stream.

The girls also like the scavenger hunt with riddles to solve along the way and the game of Giant Twister. They also always love to sit around and play Uno with the other girls, climb trees, and go exploring.

They were excited about finding a huge toad!

Finding some interesting bugs.

This looks like something out of a horror show.

The campfire is always a blast and the girls’ skit was really cute!

Moana sing-along!

The girls can’t wait until the next campout!

Lots of love,

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: camping, daddy daughter camping, jake makeover, o neill campout, oneill regional park, pink panthers, rainbow sky expedition

San Mateo Camp Out

November 5, 2018 by Rebecca Whitehead

For their second camp out with the Rainbow Sky Expedition, the girls and the rest of the dads and daughters in their Pink Panthers troop camped out in San Mateo. I’m not sure how well Jake slept, but the girls had a blast!

Recap of their campout created by one of the dads:

Night One: Uno in the tent.

Up at the crack of dawn for homemade donuts.

Only dads would think of bringing a football-themed photo backdrop.

Since San Mateo is not far from us, I dropped Meredith off for the day. She’s technically too young to join the troop, but was fine for the day part. Meredith loved her camping experience, although the twins were not happy about little sis crashing their daddy-twin time! Meredith joined just in time for their hike to San Onofre beach where they collected sea shells.

Taking over the campout, Meredith style.

Meredith invasion!

Building a fire.

Apparently, Jake advised the twins to run up and grab a ball first, instead of hanging back during their first game of dodge ball. It didn’t end well.

We really need these giant boxing gloves at home for the girls to get their rage out.

Let the Tug of War begin.

Warming by the fire.

At night, I picked Meredith up to go home while all the troops had a dance party and performed a skit. The twins received roses for being the newest members of the Pink Panthers.

Jumping beans!

Still obsessed with the boxing gloves…

Lots of love,

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: camp out, camping, dodge ball, pink panthers troop, punching bags, rainbow sky expedition, san mateo, san onofre, tug of war

Ladera Campout 2018

July 30, 2018 by Rebecca Whitehead

At the end of July, Jake took the twins and Meredith to our town’s family campout while Eleanor and I had a girls’ night at home! Jake was very brave to camp overnight in a tent with these three hooligans by himself, but his backup plan was that they were just five minutes from home if things became too crazy. Fortunately, they did not have to launch Plan B and had an awesome time “glamping.”

Everyone arrived at the campout in the afternoon to set up tents and check out the kids’ activities. This was definitely the world’s most entertaining campout with painting, a tidepool, bounce houses, games, crafts, and outdoor movie, catered In N Out for dinner and catered Corner Bakery for breakfast! Being a board member, Jake even had valet parking… I don’t even understand how they can legitimately call this camping. They literally didn’t have to do anything but show up with their tent and sleeping bags!

Meredith works on her masterpiece.

So proud!

The girls loved touching all the tidepool creatures “with just TWO fingers,” according to Meredith.

Pretty sure she wasn’t supposed to take that out of the water.

Getting some energy out in the bounce house and obstacle course.

Silliness before dinner.

S’mores time.

Ready for the movie.

I texted everyone goodnight at 9:30 p.m. and Jake informed me that no one was asleep yet, mostly due to Meredith constantly wrestling and rolling over everyone. The twins were in hysterics, screaming, “Meredith STOP! Go to sleep!” When she finally conked out mid-roll, the twins and Jake were finally able to get some sleep, despite the noise from all the other kids in close proximity crying and whining for their little siblings to go to sleep already! Jake definitely has nerves of steel, that much is sure.