Pajama Run

I really wish I had thought to either photograph or videa tape this particular family night. From now on my cameras will be charged and ready each Friday night.

I'm going to get back to the Pajama Run part a little later. It is the exciting part to our Family night, but it doesn't happen until after everyone is in bed. This works best with little kids that you can convince to go to bed at a decent hour.

So on this particular day we started our Family Night with building a tent or some might call it a fort in our living room. We emptied our linen closet of all sheets and blankets and together built the biggest tent we could. It was big enough for all of us to play inside. This in itself is a great family night, but it is about to get better.

The kids got to sleep in their tent, which they were so excited about. Mom and Dad pretended to go to bed as well while we waited for them to fall asleep. We turned on the lights and yelled "pajama run". Being that this was our first ever Pajama Run they were quite confused, especially when we asked them to put their shoes on and get in the car. It wasn't until we pulled up to a local ice cream shop did they finally get what we were doing. They were so excited to be woken up for ice cream. Now they know what a Pajama Run is and look forward to that wake up call once every summer.

When I asked the kids what their favorite Family Night was this was Garrin's choice. Stay tuned to find out what Wesley's favorite was.