Social Media

Today I worked on some social media accounts for this blog.
You can follow me on
Instagram @texas_family_sp_adventure
And Facebook https://www.facebook.com/txfspa

If there is any other social media that you guys would like me to make on account on please let me know :)

Mission Tejas State Park

Hello my sweet followers, we originally planned to camp at Purris creek SP but by the time we signed up for a reservation they were already full. So we decided to stay at Mission Tejas SP.

A few new items that have been added to our camping list, my Eno doublenest hammock, a dutch oven, canopy for the rainy days, and the most exciting thing? A trailer that a we helped dad make. It holds our bikes, up to three kayaks, and it has storage boxes on the sides. I will post a picture when I can.

The campsite we stayed at had a lot of space for us to spread out and had a perfect amount of trees. Not too much to where you were bushwhacking through it but not to little to where there wasn't enough shade.

The bathrooms were decent. There was about three or four spiders but not enough for me to feel gross. The bathrooms were not clean-clean but they didn't have a lot of mud, leaves, and such. And there was hand soap! Not all the state parks have that.

Saturday after breakfast and the rain we did some hiking and geocaching. After lunch some of us rode our bikes around and finished goecaching (we found all of them!!) The rest of the day was pretty chill. For dinner dad made fajitas and dessert was sopapilla cheesecake made with the dutch oven. So good!!!

This is the Rice home.

We stopped at Purtis Creek SP for lunch on the way home.

Camping plans!!! (Finally)

Wow... Last post was October 2013... Well, a lot has happened since then. I got a job, tried paddleboarding and loved it, started senior year of high school, and moved to a new church. But no camping has happen! I know, unbelievable. I'm not the one to blame for that. In spite of this horrendous news there is a light ahead of this tentless tunnel.
We plan to mark off Mission Tejas State park in a few weeks. It will be a weekend trip and I will miss my best friend's homecoming dance but hey, camping is fun and I really miss it.
Mission Tejas is a small campsite with a small pond and a lot of hiking trails. They have 12 campsites and 5 of them are rv sites. We reserved one of the last sites so they will be full but at this point I don't care. I want to go camping :) My plan is to chill, read, and maybe do a little bit of hiking. I don't have a camera right now but I might borrow a friends... Well, see :)
I'll post again when we get back! (Sometime in October)

Cedar Hill Family Campout This Weekend!! :D

Hey guys!
I know... It's been WAY too long since my last post. Summer was busy, but fun, so we were not really able to do any camping. Anyway, we have a cub scout family camp out this weekend! :D It will be at Cedar Hill State Park.
I ordered a new one person tent and I'm super excited to use it this weekend!!
More when we get back!! And hopefully some pictures too :P

My new tent - The Eureka Solitaire Tent

By the way, you should go check out the blog that I have with my best friend, Cassidy a.k.a. Cas or Cassie. All you have to do is click right HERE :D We basically post whatever we feel like posting. It's mostly about what we have been up too but I'm hoping to get some book reviews in there sometime :)

Cub Scout Family Camp-out

My youngest brothers is in cub scouts and they have two family camp-outs per year so I'll probably post about those camp-outs too :)
Last weekend we went to Camp Constantin Boy Scout Camp for the family camp-out. It's not a state park but I figured I would post about.

The bathrooms were pretty gross but we made it through the weekend. It was really pretty though. There are a few hiking trails and it's right on a lake. We saw a 3' long snake, we think it was a rat snake, lizards, and there were tons of really cute mini grasshoppers :P

I didn't bring my camera with me, it broke a few months ago, but my friend took a ton of pictures so I'll post those as soon as I get them!

I put myself in charge of the food for the weekend. There was a burn ban so I had to plan stuff that was already ready to eat. I'll post our food plan a little later. :)

Pedernales Falls - Meal Plan

Friday

Dinner - Chick-fil-a - We got a late start and didn't get to camp til late Friday night.

Saturday

Breakfast - Biscuits with Sausage and Gravy

Lunch - Sandwich Wraps

Dinner - Turkey and Apple Stir-Fry - Super Yummy!

Sunday

Breakfast - Homemade instant oatmeal packets

Lunch - Taco Bell - we were on the road home

(Sorry this was late)

Ceder hills

So ceder hills state park was fun. My brother had a cub scout family campout there and I didn't do much exploring.
Here is a bathroom reveiw done by another camper
"The bathrooms were clean and bug free for the most part. Towards the end of the day, some trash was around the stalls but they were clean the next day. One of the 3 sinks didn't work but it never was so crowded that we had to wait for a turn there. The showers, however... The shower curtains were a bit transparent AND backlit by the shower lights which is a rather  unfavorable combo. The water constantly switched back and forth from hot to cold and also when the toilet was flushed and the pressure was pretty light. I'm glad that I brought my flipflops because a previous showering person left a rodent-sized ball of human hair behind and I think I recall the drains pooling a bit. It wasn't a terrible experience but there is room for improvements."
As for our campsite, some of it was on a slope. We had three tents plus a one-person tent and we were able to set up most of the tents on level ground, Just make sure that if you set up your tent on a slope you sleep with your head at the top of the slope :)

Sadly we were not able to make it to Cleburne SP.
We will be taking a little break from camping this month.
More to come :)

Next park

The next state parks we will be visiting are Ceder Hills SP and Cleburne SP.