Spring Camping

Our planned camping trip to Tyler State park was almost a disaster.  Reports were coming in of flooded camp sites and 70-100% chance of rain the entire 4-day weekend we'd be there.  Not so fun being stuck in a tent with 5 children.  Good news is I was able to find a last minute camp site in Witchita Falls at Lake Arrowhead.  Temperatures were predicted to be in the 70s during the day and sunshine all weekend.  So at 6:00am that morning I called the other two families traveling with us and begged them to change venues. By 11:00am that day we were making our camp at Lake Arrowhead. 

This time we had an additional family with 8 children coming with us.  Ava was super excited because most of them were teenage girls.  It was the most fun, relaxing trip I have ever taken with all the kids.  I absolutely LOVE camping!   The weather was as predicted and while my fellow friends and family back home were soaking in the constant down-pouring of rain, we had beautiful sunny weather. I even came home with a sunburn..oops.  The kids literally played together the whole time. I actually read and finished an entire book in one day.  Ok, enough on how wonderful it was, here are some pictures of our trip.  Keep in mind that the lake in the pictures was 20ft low, is now 2ft above (last I heard.)  I'm so glad the rain eventually got to them (after our trip of course.)

who's ready to fish?  

we have a couple of amazing dads that took on this whole crew!

park ranger talking to us about prairie dogs

 

Matthew walking over and around the prairie dog town

Can you believe this lady has 8 children???