Camping at the Devils River (Caution:Picture Overload!)

My family makes a yearly trip to the Devils River to go camping. We stay for an entire week, but thankfully have the convenience and air conditioning of the campers. I'll admit that I was nervous about going this year. The boys are really starting to be very active and I didn't know how they would handle the cold river water and the heat outside. Well they LOVED it.



Of course, before we started, we had to pack our tackle boxes.

and we had our life jackets so that we would stay afloat.

Mom made sure that we had plenty of sun screen on and we usually wore a hat.

Here we are having our first dip in the river. We kinda whimpered at first because it was cold, but no more than Daddy did.

Momma and Mimi took us for a paddle boat ride. It was fun!
Here we are fixing to go on our first motor boat ride. "Are you ready for this, Brother?"
Daddy has waited to take us on a boat ride since the day we were born. I don't know who was more excited, him or us.

We also got to ride in the Ranger. The wind blew our hair back and made it stand on end.

Back at camp we enjoyed swinging in our swings. Daddy hung them from a VERY tall tree so we would swing a really long way.

We even got to relax in the hammock.

Mom was kind enough to take our activity centers, so we could still play.

These crazy parents of ours even changed our diapers on a cot out side the campers.

Even more crazy than that, they bathed us out side where the whole family could see. We were SO embarrassed!

In this picture, Momma and Papa are reading us our bedtime story.

Everything was going great...until the bees came. They swarmed our camp for a few days. It wasn't much fun because Mom was soooooo worried that we were going to get stung that she became very over protective. But who do you call when the bees invade your camp??....
...The ultimate bee killer, of course. We think that Daddy must have killed over 400 bees this past week.

We got to play inside while Daddy was taking care of the bee problem.

We also got to play in our pack-n-play that had a net over it. That'll keep the bees out!

When the days were done, we were completely worn out and went right to sleep in our make-shift table-bed-crib.

But while we were sleeping...look what Daddy caught on his fishing pole. He said that he had a tough time reeling it in, but he managed. It's bigger than we are! It's a 27 pounder.

All in all, we had a great time and can't wait until next years trip.

Lots of love,

Heath and Hunter