Camping Trip

Last weekend our family went camping down at the Henry Mountains. This is one of Tim's favorite hunting spots. We took our 4 wheeler down and had a good time driving around looking for big bucks and buffalo herds. Tim was our official "camp chief", cooking almost all our meals on his "camp chief". The food was great! Our sleeping situation however was a little less to be desired. Tent camping with little kids is not what I would call fun. Luckily the kids seem to sleep through just about anything... wind flapping the tent around, coyotes howling all night long, mice rummaging through the boxes of food on the 4 wheeler trailer! Yes, Tim actually heard a mouse squeaking outside our tent, and it was bugging him so much that he finally had to get up and check it out... sure enough there was a mouse helping himself to some Oreo cookies!
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The second night of camping Katelyn woke up cold, so Tim had her take his place in the double sleeping bag next to Laura. Tim then attempted to climb into Katelyn's child sized Cinderella sleeping bag. That's an image I won't soon forget... Tim trying to sleep in a tiny little pink princess sleeping bag! What a great dad!

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Sunday morning was Tim's birthday. The kids and I sent him off on the 4 wheeler to go scout for deer and buffalo. While he was gone we packed up camp and got everything ready to load in the truck. When Tim got back he told us he'd found the buffalo herd and two massive 30 in.+ bucks. On our way out we found them again and boy they were huge!
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I had told the girls there where horny toads out there, and that if we found one we could try and catch it. We looked and looked and finally on our last day we found one. The girls thought he was so cute and decided to name him Spike. After a few pictures Spike was set free. Later in the car Laura asked me, "Mommy, will we get to see Spike in Heaven?"

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A good time was had by all, however Tim and I are now even more determined to make this our last "tent" camping trip. Cross your fingers... camper trailer here we come!