mom2four: Camping with a lot of pix

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Camping with a lot of pix

We went camping for the last time this year. It started out not so swell. First off I didn't really want to go and I complained about going the whole day long. Then Jason couldn't get off of work as soon as we had hoped for and ended up being stuck in traffic which made it so that we didn't even leave Mountain Home until after 6:00. We went to a new spot this time and it seemed like it took forever for us to get there (which it didn't really it just seemed like it). When we got there Nate went to put up the tent and we were missing the poles to it.So the boys jimmied a rope around a tree and pulled up the center part of the tent and called it good. But luckily for me Jason volunteered to sleep in that tent with Nate and all the kids except Madison and Nicole, Madison and I slept in the little tent. I put the air mattress into the tent and started to blow it up for like 5 minutes before I realized that I forgot to shut the air valve. The kids were starving and it was like 9:00 before we got camp set up and dinner ready to eat. We played cards for a little while and all shuffled into bed after 11:00. But Nicole and I stayed up for another hour and a half just giggling to each other until she rolled over onto her good ear and couldn't hear me talk to her any more. I didn't sleep the best that night but then again I rarely do when I go camping. I fell off the air mattress during the night until around 4 in the morning when Madison let out a blood curdling screech and I thought for a second that i was going to have to defend us with the gun until we realized that she was still sleeping. At that point we heard the boys get up to pee followed by some moose's mating (boy those boys could snore) we are positive that that was the reason that no animals bothered us that night. Moose can get really loud you know. Nicole and I got up to pee. Which is easier said then done. While I was still laying on the air mattress Nicole popped her little rear end right out of the tent. As soon as her butt left the bed I sank then I had the difficult task of maneuvering myself out of the tent door. I was stuck so I layed on my stomach and kinda pushed/ kicked myself right out of the tent. lets just say it was a process. Nicole said it looked like the tent was giving birth to me. We laughed so hard we almost peed our pants. On the way back from the bathroom (you know squatting behind a tree) I thought that I saw a skunk and my heart went up into my throat until I realized that it was just Nicole's dog. We ended up all wound up and laughed ourselves to sleep about an hour later. Nate complained about us being to loud as soon as he got up. I still have know idea how he heard us will all of those moose calls coming from his tent.