This February camping experience was one to go into the record books. I must have been out of my mind delirious. It was the coldest weekend of the year dropping into the 20's. Luckily we have great friends who let us sleep in their pop up with a small heater, but still it was freezing. Not to mention Cason was not having any of it. He was up all night and wasn't happy with anything we did. Cole did ok, but I think he should be a bit older. Cason just decided he wasn't going to have any fun and didn't. Therefore it was tough and we only made it one night. Like I said taking a 2 and 4 year old camping was a crazy thought, and it won't happen again for at least a year or two. One bonus on the way to the "camp ground" Kris and I saw a black bear. It was too neat. It was right on the side of the road eating. We got pictures, but I don't know how to transfer from my blackberry to the computer yet.
January was our month to experience some of the local state parks. We went letterboxing in some also. The boys loved to do the hikes and even made it about 2 miles before we had to carry them the last mile. We visited Hontoon Island where we letterboxed, and Blue Springs to see the manatees. And boy there were like 150 plus the day we went. It was too neat. We told Cole they were sea cows and he got a kick out of that. At Hontoon we ran into an armadillo and the boys went up to see it and of course right when they got close it ran off. But to this day Cole still remembers what it is called and that it was funny because they don't like people much.
We decided to try fishing in the river and a picnic. We ended up not catching anything but had a great day. We saw lots of wild life and even a few gators. We ended up in the river where the boys had fun in the shallows. There we found clams and snail and baby horseshoe crabs.
And of course the beginning of January we celebrated along with hundreds of others our FLORIDA GATORS winning the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP again. We watched the game at Chad and Kristens. We drove up to Gainesville to the celebration there and got to see Tebow announce he was staying. I got goosebumps. Cole loved that and thought the music and atmosphere was neat. I'll also have you know Cason isn't interested in learning as much as Cole was at this age. Cason doesn't even sing songs, except for "It's great to be a FLorida gator" and when our ringtone for the phone comes on he hums that too. Crazy I know, but you have to start them young:) We also went to the Universal Studios celebration for them. We had a busy couple of gator weeks. Of course it's slowed down until August.
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