This will be a combined blog of our first 2 camping trips of 2006. We got a little bit of rain but still had fun.


Cody had a little bike wreck in the mud

Sarah and Cody got new bikes.

Kyle was enoying his birthday present two.

Sarah had her party while out camping. Grandma and Grandpa came out for the event.

And of couse we played in the Zuk. The rain made for good fun in the mud.

Probably should have left the top on.........
but where the fun be in that, we all got wet!

Well my first trail damage!

Yes that's a bungy cord holding my alt on, and electrical tape holding in the dip stick.

a couple hours in the garage and she'll be good as new

Starting Kyle off right with some quality reading material

And of course it wouldn't be camping with out smore's

Sorry there's not more pics of the kids but our camera had a glitch and a lot of them didn't turn out. But there will be more camping trips.

Monster truck's

A small Monster truck show came to town, so we decided to take the kids to the show, we all had a blast. I do apologize, we didn't get any pictures of the kids with their ear plugs on but they all LOVED it.

For $5 a ride you could go around in a circle on the back of this truck but it was a little pricey for the length of the ride. Now if they would just let you drive, that would be worth 5 bucks.

Part of the show was the tuff truck contest and of course there's got to be MUD.


This guy was pretty fast, and of course the kids loved the air under the tires.

Did I mention that they don't have to be trucks.

All Kyle wanted to see was more monster trucks!

Bumper for the Zuk

Well after a good long look at the stock bumper of the Zuk it was pretty obvious that it would never hold up to the abuse I would give it. So I started work on a new stronger version.

After several day's of cutting and welding this is what I ended up with. Not to bad if I don't say so myself.

The next weekend I tested it by pulling a tree that had fallen across the road. After that Heidi pushed another tree that was across the road so we could get the camper through (She doesn't let me push tree's with her car).