No Bears Are Out Tonight

We went camping.  I think that about sums it up.  But I will elaborate a bit just so the kids when they read this in 20 years will know that we did it all for them. :)  I don't mind camping in small doses.  With a newborn... not ideal, but actually Austin did really well.  No one got eaten by a bear.  (I was seriously freaking out about that happening... I didn't sleep very well, but lucky for me I'm used to sleep deprivation.)  A neighboring camp must have left a cooler or something out because a medium sized creature was trying to get into it ALL night..... scratch, scratch, scratch....  Rachel and Kaden slept in a two man tent close to our tent.  That gave me extra anxiety just knowing they weren't right there by me then thinking that the scratching creature was possibly a hungry bear who might decide that my children smell really yummy!  Kaden had cut his finger at dinner time pretty bad and I was sure a bear would smell his fresh wound!  Fortunately, we woke up at the crack of dawn and were all still alive.  Yay!  When all was said and done I would say it was a success.  We had fun just being together enjoying the beautiful mountains that surround us.. and our lives!