The past two Saturdays we have really enjoyed the fall weather and the chance to get out and breathe fresh air! One of the Saturdays we drove to the big town of Carthage, AR. Victory Bible Camp was established by Brother Sam Sheppardson, the founder and pastor of Marrable Hill Chapel in El Dorado. I attended this church most of my life and spent countless summers at Victory Bible Camp. I love this place! So when I found out that the fall family retreat was nearing, I told John that I'd like to take him there and show him where I have made so many good memories. Since I was a complete idiot and didn't take any pictures, see Sarah Evans wonderful documentation/pictures at babyevans.blogspot.com---there are no pics of Q, but lots of adorable Alex!
Last Saturday my friend Krysta planned the best birthday bash ever for 2 of our very dear friends, Heather and Shannon. Her present to them was a 2 hour horse ride. When they returned to the barn Krysta had planned for husbands plus me to meet up with them and have a bonfire. I decided to not participate in the horse ride after just giving birth, that could be ouch, very painful! As the boys were making the fire and whittling the sticks for the hot dogs, us girls were pitching our tent. The tent that was across the creek! Okay, so it wasn't a long hike or a wide creek that we had to jump over, but hey, we weren't in the Embassy Suites either. Once it got dark we roasted our hot dogs and marshmallows for smores while sipping on IBC root beer and listening to Johnny Cash. Priceless. Being with good friends, having so much fun, good conversation...that is just something that money can't buy. I'm so thankful for wonderful wonderful fun friends who appreciate all of the "little" things in life. I love you girls!
One of the things about the twins that I love is that we always find something to laugh about. Many times we are laughing at ourselves, but laughing! Our camping trip was no exception. We climbed into the tent around 10 and started to get into our sleeping bags. I'm still breastfeeding Quincy so a part of my camping gear was the breast pump! This thing is a site once it is all hooked up to me. I have a double electric hands free pump...not trying to get you to imagine anything, but it looks quite silly, especially to be hooked up to in a tent on a camping trip! So I'm starting to pump and I'm sitting on the far left of the tent, hunched over since the sides of the tent are slanted and my back is touching the side of the tent. I thought that I felt something brush against my back and so I moved up a little thinking it was the side of the tent. It happened again and right at that time I feel something sharp on my bare back!!! I lurched forward (topless with a crazy apparatus attached to my boobs) and said a few things that I won't repeat here. The girls all quickly looked over to see 4 claws come through the tent. I'm still trying to move away from the side of the tent and Heather saves the day by hitting the side of the tent and shouting "Git"! It worked. Okay, so we don't know what was on the other side of the tent. After we finished laughing and looked out the "window" it was gone. But we think that it was a cat. We had seen a black cat around the farm that night, but in our minds when we say cat, we are thinking like, mountain lion sized cat!
Finally we settled down and attempted to sleep. Heather being the good friend (and 4th degree black belt) agreed to trade spots with me so she could fight the next mountain lion since I was obviously not going to be good at that job! I wasn't scared but I was a little hyper-alert at sounds. Around 1am I thought that I heard something really close to the tent again. Not wanting to be "that girl" that gets scared at anything I elected to not say anything and wake the others. I hear it again. Heather wakes up and whispers to me, wondering if I'd heard anything. I said yes and we listened more. She said, "I think that it is the horses". They sounded REALLY close. We unzipped the window again and looked outside our tent to see SIX GIANT HORSES just milling about, like TWO feet from us!!! We just started laughing. So there we all are, 4 girls, peering out of our little tent window looking at about 6 tons of animal that could stampede us at any given time. No one had ever camped in this area before, so it was really a possibility. This time Shannon said "Git" and off they ran in the other direction! Only us--this would happen to only us!*
*The above statements are true and should not be tried at home.
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