Family campout

This past week we had a family camp out with Mike's side of the family. There were good parts and bad parts. But the good outweighed the bad.

It all started Thursday, Mike and I woke up that morning and packed our car. We realized that you need a lot to go camping with a family of four and will not know what to do when we have our next kid. We got up to blackhawk about 2 in the afternoon. Mike and I walked around to find the best tent spot for our family. The one that would be easiest for Abigail to walk to. Then we set up our tent. Well Mike did most of it. I helped when the girls let me. We just let the kids play in the dirt.

About an hour later other people started to show up. It was fun to see everyone. Especially Mike's brother Matt and his family. It has been about 3 and a half years since we last saw them. Our first problem came when one of my nieces needed to go to the bathroom. We then discovered that the bathrooms were locked. We had no idea why. So we had someone go talk to them and they said that they were going to open them. But when my sister-in-law Sarah and I went down to use them only the Men's room was open. So yes we went in there. I would rather go into a stinky men's room the squat in the bushes. But that is just me.

For dinner that night we had chicken, rice and corn. When I am pregnant I hate chicken, so I didn't eat any. I hate it, because everyone said it was so good. Mike helped make it because the person in charge of making had to go home because his wife got sick. After dinner was done and cleaned up we had scripture study as a family and then family prayer. Mike and I then put our girls to bed. Which Brooklyn cried and then eventually fell asleep. That night we played games and ate starburst. When it was time to get ready for bed, we went down to the bathroom and it was locked again. How annoying is that, both bathrooms were. So we had to figure something out. Luckily my father in law brought a bucket. So we called it our pee bucket and Mike and I brought t.p.

When we went in our tent that night Brooklyn woke up and started to scream, so we thought that we would just put her in one of our beds. So I put her in with me, but she kept screaming no matter what I did. So we put her in bed and she screamed. So finally I though maybe she is hungry so I took her out to our car and got her crackers. But she just kept screaming and wouldn't eat. So I went back to the tent and gave her to Mike. And she calmed right down. But she was wide awake and kept hitting Mike and scratching his face. He finally put her back in her crib and she stayed quiet. But me being the mom I am couldn't fall asleep until she was asleep, because I wanted to make sure she had her blankets on. I was probably awake for another hour waiting for her to be asleep enough that I could do it.

I was woken up early the next morning, by one of my brother in laws started a fire. He had some light on and was making a lot of noise. I think a lot of people got up early that morning. Mike and I got up and took our girls out, since it was still before 6 in the morning and breakfast wasn't until 8 or 9, we pulled out some of the doughnuts that we had. We were nice and shared them with anyone who wanted one. They finally decided to make breakfast. The bad part was nothing looked good to me, being pregnant makes food look gross. So I really didn't eat. Also one of my nephews was throwing up right before breakfast. He threw up about 5 times and then was done and was playing again.

That morning they brought some porta potties, which was nice. I think every kid came up and told us about them. I was happy that I no longer had to use a bucket, just because that was not fun, but better than squatting. The day quickly got hot so we decided to go swimming. But first we had to wait for everyone who had to get ready and then we were trying to put up tarps for sun protection. Finally we got to the lake. We took our girls in and they screamed and didn't like it. Mike stayed in the water and I sat on the shore with our girls. I was so hot. So I tried to get in again and they hated it again. So finally we decided to just go back to camp.

We just sat there and talked to Mike's brother and his wife that didn't go swimming. Everyone came back a little while later and we tried to all stay in the shade. Which was getting harder because there wasn't much of it. That night it was Mike's turn to make dinner. It:was really good. He then had help cleaning it up. We had scripture study again. Then about 8:30 we put our girls to bed.

That night we had smores and cobbler for dessert. Some people played games but I just wanted to sit there and relax. I don't know what time I went to bed but it was after midnight at least. Luckily Brooklyn stayed asleep that night. But I was woken up by another one of my nephews throwing up. And then by one of Mike's brother leaving in the middle of the night with his sick wife and then Mike's sister left sick first thing in the morning. So I still didn't get much sleep.

We got up early the next morning. Mike started a fire and we just sat around eating cracker and drinking juice. Slowly other people got up. People slept in a lot more on the 2nd day. Mike's parents came up later that morning with cereal for breakfast. We ate then we packed up to go home. We had Mike's mom hold Brooklyn. Brooklyn hates being held, by anyone but Mike and I she is very shy. But she finally calmed down and was fine. She even fell asleep in grandma's arms. It got hot really fast so I helped Mike as much as I could.

By the time that everyone was packed and ready to go the kids wanted to go home so we just went. The ride home was fast and luckily my ears popped right so I didn't feel yucky. When we got home I fed the girls and put things away as Mike unloaded the car. We all took a nap that afternoon and was really tired.

Overall it was a good camp out.