Featured Slider issue

For some reason the featured slider text is changing the size of the featured slider box and pushing the rest of the home page content down. This only happens W/ certain posts. I have Lorem Ipsum text in my blog postings right now so the only thing that is different is the blog titles. I changed the excerpt length to 15 words to try and shorten the descriptions, but the issue is still happening. You can see it happen @ www.howtocampout.com if my description of the problem doesn't make sense. ALSO, Is there any custom CSS code that could possibly space out the primary menu items evenly and not align them to the left? Thanks for the help!