For father’s day we decided to go camping with our 2 and 3 year olds. Inside that is. We borrowed my in-laws’ 8-man tent and pitched it in their enormous finished basement.

We rounded out our first ever camping experience with all-natural uncured hot dogs and organic potato chips…

s’mores (which no one ate)…gluten-free marshmallows, organic chocolate, and organic graham crackers…glow sticks and a lantern for reading stories…

and finally sleeping bags and pillows for our heads, sleepy from the excitement.

Though it was a bit of effort to put up that huge tent indoors (and vacuum out the sand in the bottom) this family’s father simply loved seeing his children enjoying their first-ever camping trip. We are definitely going camping again.

Maybe next time we’ll pitch the tent outdoors.