Camping at Lake Ray Roberts

This past weekend, we took the boys camping up at Lake Ray Roberts. We went with my cousin Summer and her family. This is the first time we have taken the boys camping, so we were excited, but a bit nervous to see how it'd turn out. We all had a great time. The kids loved it! We went up Friday afternoon and set up camp while the boys all had a great time just exploring and getting into things. Then, we had hot dogs over the camp fire for dinner and of course smores for dessert. Our excitement for the night was that we had a little visitor that kept coming into our campsite- A SKUNK! He would just come in and eat the crumbs from under the table. We had to just sit and watch it because we couldn't really try to scare it away. He was a very tame skunk, but a bit of a nuisance. The boys were all a bit afraid of him. Luckily, he never sprayed us and finally gave up visiting. That night was a bit chilly- it got down to 46 degrees, which for our family who just moved from AZ, it was freezing. Nate and I were both snuggled in my sleeping bag, so we were toasty, but not that comfortable (at least I wasn't). But, overall, the boys slept pretty well and did better than we expected. We've already decided to go again in the spring!

Here's our lovely campsite!

The boys- Caden, Noah, Landen and Nate sitting by the fire trying to get warm.

Phil- the main Chef for our breakfast! Pancakes, eggs and sausage- YUMMY!

Noah, Landen and Caden drinking their Hot Cocoa.

On Saturday morning, after we cleaned up camp, we took the boys over to this playground by the lake.

This is our play by play of trying to take the boys fishing. Summer and Ben got their boys this fancy fishing pole where you push a button and it casts the line out for you. So, we decided to let the kids try it out. Well, Landen went to cast it and the hook (which is encased in this bullet type thing) cast out into the lake, but it wasn't connected to any fishing line for some reason. So, we all sat there looking at it out in the lake and wondering what went wrong. Then Landen turns to Ben and says, "Well, you're the scientist..." (Landen kept telling Ben all weekend that he was a scientist and Ben had agreed.) It was pretty funny. The timing was perfect. So, Ben being the scientist he is got to wade out in the freezing water to get the hook/ bullet thing. Needless to say, our fishing didn't go exactly as planned. Nathan, didn't care one bit about fishing- he was just interested in throwing rocks in the lake. He did that the whole time and loved it. Who knew that could be so fun!