MOOSE!!!

We went camping over 4th of July weekend at one of our favorite spots, Meadow Creek Reservoir. We were joined by Doug's sister Lisa, our niece Jesse, our friends Jerdie, Eden and Farren. (and four dogs, our Belle, Murphy, Fallon and Sullivan, Jerdie & Eden's dogs.)

We ate yummy food, fished, hiked, explored and got to see some great wildlife!

My mom called me right before we left, concerned about Charlie being able to poop in the woods. Some kids (and adults) have problems moving their bowels in the great outdoors. After thinking about it, I decided not to bring a potty chair and just try my luck. Worse case scenario - there is an outhouse about 5mins down the road. We stop at our campsite and the first words out of Charlie's mouth are "me gotta poop!" Yikes! So I start to explain to Charlie "when we are camping we poop in the woods". I barely got the words out of my mouth when Charlie started to pull his pants down!!! I quickly told him we had to go away from our campsite, so off we headed to the woods. He pooped like a bear in the woods -- no problem! WHEW!!!

The next afternoon, after lunch, Doug and I decided to put Charlie down for a nap. Jerdie, Eden & Farren wanted to go fishing, so they asked us to watch Sullivan and Murphy. No problem! So Doug, me, Charlie, Belle, Murphy and Sullivan climbed in the camped for a nap. Well, Murphy cried and tried to get out. Sullivan just wanted to be in the middle of everything, and Charlie was bouncing off the walls with the dogs. No chance of a nap!! Doug got up with Charlie and they headed up to go potty. I got up, let the dogs out and went to get the tie outs for Sullivan & Murphy. While I was trying to find the tie outs, Sullivan and Murphy took of down the road. It was quite a sight -- big, fat pregnant me, chasing those crazy dogs down the road. Murphy finally came back, so I tied him up and set out in the Jeep to find Sullivan. While I was chasing Sullivan, I found a road we didn't know about. The whole time I was looking for Sullivan, I kept thinking to myself how was I going to tell Jerdie and Eden I lost their dog. Sullivan eventually came back and all was well.

Later that afternoon, Charlie wanted to go for a drive, so we decided to explore the new road I found. We discovered a wonderful new place to camp, over looking the reservoir. We can't wait to go back now!!! We also saw moose on the drive, he is the one in the pictures below. It was an amazing animal, we were so lucky to see him so close up.

The next morning, while we were drinking our coffee, we saw two moose in the clearing across from our camp. Unfortunately, the battery was dead on my camera.

Here are some awesome pictures from the trip.