The One Where the Boys Go Camping

Ian took the boys our ward's Priesthood camp-out on Friday night. I felt a little bad waving goodbye to my boys from the house as they pulled away into the pouring rain, but it stopped raining by the time they got to the campsite. It did rain pretty hard for a couple hours in the middle of the night, but the tent help up and they stayed dry. They had a great time despite the cloudy, rainy weather. Highlights included making and launching rockets (Weston's favorite), collecting rollie pollies (Davin's favorite), making "candles" (lighting sticks on fire), cooking hot dogs, and making smores.


While the boys were gone my friend, Alison, and her daughter, Kate, came over for a girl's night. We settled onto the couch in our pajamas and watched Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken and ate chocolate cake. It was great. Total flashbacks to sleepovers when I was 10 watching that movie and swooning over Al (I know, what kind of name is that?). I was glad to have some company and it was nice to have some good adult conversation.

Talia slept great for me. She woke up at 6ish and ate a bottle and went back to sleep until 8:15. Since I didn't have to get up with any other little ones I got to stay in bed until then too. I was much less productive than I had planned to be, but the boys got home at 11am, so I didn't have tons of time to myself.

Saturday flew by. Ian cleaned up and put away camping stuff while I bathed the kids and started the laundry. We had a couple hours of down time before Ian headed out to go to the BYU v. Utah football game. I took the kids to Alison's birthday party at the park, then watched most of the game after they were in bed. It was a pretty sad game. I don't know what happened to our team, but it was ugly. I went to bed when there were about 9 minutes left to play and the score was 33-10. The next morning I asked Ian what the final score was . . . 54-10. Yikes. I had to chuckle at THIS though.

Sunday was busy, as usual. I went to Ward Council at 7:30am while Ian got the kids ready (honestly I prefer it this way), then we all went to church. Talia stayed awake the entire three hours for the first time. She did ok. By the end she was getting pretty restless, but so was I, so who can blame her? I took the kids home and got Talia down for a nap, everyone fed, then went to my presidency meeting. Right afterwards my friend, Janelle, and I went visiting teaching. By the time I got home at 4pm I changed straight into my pajamas and spent the rest of the afternoon/evening putting together dinner, watching Pixar shorts with the kids, reading the paper, and going to bed early. Sigh. And now we are onto another week just as busy as the last. Wish me luck!