Life Continues

We had a wonderful week of holidays. Just the four of us, a tent trailor some coolers and a fire. The second day in Drew and I stared at each other in complete exhaustion, wondering why anyone would consider camping with small children. By day three the kids were on schedule and having a riot, and we gave up on our idea of lounging around reading during the day. We took turns on who was on duty. That way every other day one of us could pretend to sleep in past 6:30 while the other feed the kids and made coffee on the campstove. Amazing how beautiful it is to stay in bed 15 minutes longer with the illusion that getting up was your choice. It was a week that required work, a week of learning more about being parents and a week for Drew and I sit by the fire when the kids were in bed.

Our pictures start on Sunday, we arrived on Friday but Friday and Sat were simply to exhausting to think about pictures. Saturday night Drew was sick, so sick he slept in the truck, we think it was food poisioning. Sunday morning we missed church, but the afternoon he was feeling better. We packed the kids up and drove 45 minutes to the destination we had punched into the GPS.....and ended up among fields. Beautiful country, cows and freshly painted barns but no church. We arrived back at the campsite after two hours of driving, a little weary but with a little more wisdom than when we left. After about an hour of silence we decided to make the most of it and went back to the campsite for coffee and goodies.

Jacob lived in his yellow rain boots. He had a bit of "when I wear these I am strong" for when those boots were one he was constantly trying to lift and throw anything he could.



Unloading firewood was a blast, Jacob with each piece a bit heavier than the last and muttering "tanks Daddy" every time he received a piece. He was stumbling around and sweating but once the firewood was unloaded he started crying, so Drew knocked over the woodpile and Jacob happily went to work restacking it.

Roasting marshmellows was fun. Although we needed to start the fire right after dinner, Jacob was so exhausted that he would be in bed by 7:00p.m. Kaylin stayed up longer and loved this time with us.


Loved having a trailor to sleep in. We were up quite a bit at night, with either Kaylin or Jacob. One night was so windy that we were worried about a tree over Kaylin's side so we moved her to our side. The beds are a tad small for that. One night the boy who hates to be held would only sleep beside me, very rare! So Drew moved to Kaylin's side of the trailor.

We came home refreshed and energized. And came up with a list of projects that we want done before baby number three arrives. Much painting is required and one wall to be removed....