Joel and I talked about going camping over spring break at Tuttle Creek State Park, outside Manhattan, but then he got a job in Utah. I was not up to going tent camping alone with four kids so we decided to rent a cabin. It was a good thing too because it really rained both nights we were there. But we had a great time. Here are some photos of the Osage cabin. The boys never tired of going up and down that ladder to the loft over and over again.
During the day the weather was great and we did a lot of hiking, I mean what hiking you can do with three kids 5 and under. They had a great park in the campground, shaped like a tree house, that the kids loved. Unfortunately we were there at 5pm one night when it started to rain. We made a run for it to our cabin but were drenched by the time we got there. The rain was coming down so hard it felt like hail!
We were close to the swimming beach so we went and threw rocks and sticks in the lake for awhile on our last day. I tried to teach the kids how to skip rocks without much luck. I should have been teaching Jude how to aim at the lake because he hit two of us with rocks he was trying to throw in the water.
One night we decided to go into Manhattan to get ice cream. We took a driving tour of K-State (actually a pretty campus) while there which resulted in Jude and Maeve falling asleep and missing out on ice cream. You should have seen Roman's face when I handed him his gigantic ice cream cone from Sonic. He was in heaven. I covered him in napkins that protected his clothes but they dissolved under the ice cream mess which was nasty to clean up. Not the best bib. You can't really call it camping when you sleep in a cabin and go out for ice cream.
On the way back to our cabin we passed the dam. This fat little animal came walking up on the road right in front of us. I was not sure what it was until it turned and waddled back to the water and I saw it's big flat tail. Maeve was bummed when we told her she missed the beaver.
Here are pictures from our hikes. It was a much needed, relaxing two days.
Jude and all his "weapons" (Should I be worried?)
During the day the weather was great and we did a lot of hiking, I mean what hiking you can do with three kids 5 and under. They had a great park in the campground, shaped like a tree house, that the kids loved. Unfortunately we were there at 5pm one night when it started to rain. We made a run for it to our cabin but were drenched by the time we got there. The rain was coming down so hard it felt like hail! 
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