Linc's First Campout

Our second weekend here we went camping with some friends (Colt and Leslie) that we made the first weekend in Nebraska. We were really excited to take Linc on his first camping trip. We had been wanting to take him in Utah, but never got around to it with Dave's surgery. Although camping in Nebraska is a lot different than Utah, we had a lot of fun. It was not as cold as we expected it to be, which was actually a good thing since somehow our sleeping bags were left in Utah. We had a delicious dinner and Linc was visited by a frog that was not shy and jumped on his blanket. Colt and Dave helped Linc have the full experience and let Linc touch it. Linc kept reaching out to grab it, but they didn't let him because he probably would have killed the poor frog. They put it on Linc's arm and then it hopped away when it was done visiting. Linc is such a little trooper, at bed time I was able to put Linc in the tent and I stayed with him for about 10 minutes while he drank his bottle and then I left him as he was dozing off to sleep. He did just fine and when I went to bed I found him passed out completely asleep and did not wake up when I moved him over to make room for us. During the night we were greeted by a pretty big thunder and lighting rainstorm. Linc woke up and watched and after about 30 minutes he went back to sleep. As usual, Linc woke us up in the morning with his self entertaining babble and movements. Dave cooked a wonderful dutch oven breakfast that we all enjoyed...including Linc. There were some leftovers from the s'mores so Linc got his first taste of marshmallow and then devoured the graham crackers, which he got ALL over!! It was a fun and successful trip and we are actually now getting ready for another trip this weekend for our ward camp out...and of course another camping trip with Colt and Leslie in a couple weeks and whoever else wants to join. We want to be sure to get some trips in before the winter season.