Elyza and Maya warming by the fire
Lexi, Elyza, Mattie and Chloe on our hike!
Matthew and I hiking
Everyone warming their buns by the fire
Elyza conquered the hill!!So, I am really late posting about our camping trip LAST weekend. But, better late than never, right? Anyway, we went camping with family last weekend to Cleburne State Park. It was SOOO convenient to get to (only 1 1/2 hours) and beautiful! (and close to a hospital) We got there late friday afternoon and got set up in our shelter. It was a great weekend to go camping and the weather was great, until night time!!
I don't think that any of us were quite prepared for how cold it was gonna get at night. It got down to about 45 degrees outside, which doesn't sound bad until you sleep outside. We all had space heaters, but they didn't do much to keep the cold down. I have never shivered so hard and prayed for morning before.
Saturday morning we got up, ate breakfast and enjoyed the outside. We went for a hike and found a pretty cool little waterfall. It was alot of fun! I love to hike!! In the picture above, you will see that Elyza enjoyed her hike up a pretty steep little hill, while I took her picture from below!
Everyone decided to go fishing while Matthew and I stayed back at camp to prepare our meal on Saturday evening. Chloe and Mattie tagged along with everyone. I was surprised to see them come back about 5 minutes later. Well, leave it to the Thornton family to make the day more exciting. Apparently after a little scuffle, Mattie took a back flip out of the door of my brother's Yukon. He hit the back of his head on the gravel pavement. It looked pretty nasty and was bleeding pretty good, so we took him to the ER to check him out.......4 hours later we finally saw a Dr.. Everything checked out okay and he didn't need stitches so we headed back to the campsite. We got back at about 11pm, and tumbled into bed. Thankfully Josh and DeLisa took in Elyza to their tent, and Grammy and Grandaddy took Chloe with them, Matthew, Mattie and I made our bed in the back of our car for the night and were MUCH more warm than the previous night.
All in all, it was a great weekend and we were all safe, we crashed into our warm beds on Sunday after a nice warm shower! Guys, are ya'll ready to camp again?!!!
