Our Block leave camping adventure!

So as many of you know Travis is getting ready to head out on tour number four.  This will be his first deployment to the country of Afghanistan however and the first with 204th here at Ft. Carson.  We have enjoyed just over two years with him home and unfortunately part of the job is having him leave for a year.  But lucky for us we are extremely blessed to have amazing support group of family and friends to get us through these hard parts.  We look forward to growing closer together as a family and our Heavenly Father over the next year.  With any tour comes what the Army likes to call "Block Leave" which is basically vacation time that a unit takes as a whole during certain dates.  Trav took his leave in the last few weeks.  Our last few days of leave we decided to leave civilization for awhile and just focus on the family.  So we rented a little cabin up the canyon and left cell phones, TV's, internet, and showers behind us and ventured out to the fresh air.  We had an amazing time in our little cabin, almost froze that first night and woke up to snow but it was well worth every minute. We stayed up late and woke up late.  We hiked, skipped rocks, played games, enjoyed the fire and each other.  It was an amazing way to end our block leave.  Katie lost her first tooth up there, Brooklyn enjoyed the dirt and everything nature, Preston experienced his first camping trip, and Travis and I enjoyed watching our children enjoy the world outside of the craziness that is living in town.  Poor Dakota was not only looking her age but acting it as well, poor girl was sure hurting when we got her home. Enjoy the photos there are many, but I wanted to capture every minute of it.  Enjoy!  Love you all!