White River

This last Thursday after work I stopped by the store on my way home and got food for our annual Labor Day camping trip. I unloaded everything when I got home, let Calie out and fed her. Then I started to get everything ready for the weekend. Cooked some food and put it in the freezer, made dessert for our Spaghetti dinner, packed our clothes etc. I wanted everything to be ready so all we needed to do was come home from work Friday pack the truck and leave. Bryan got home from class around 9:15ish and was up till around 1:30 working on his final due today and I was up till around 11-11:30.
I went into work with Bryan so I that I could get off early. I got here around 6ish and started moving desks immediately. The team that I had been sitting with is getting a new team member today and she needed the desk that I was sitting in. So now I am sitting with my boss and the other admin for the Target Team. I got everything moved and hooked back up within a couple hours and worked hard to get everything done before I left at 3. I missed our annual putting event that we have in our office because I left early on Friday but that’s ok. When we got home we packed up the Truck, grabbed something to eat and headed for White River. I think that we got there close to 7. Bryan set up the tent and I watched Calie. She was a tad annoying the first night but over all she did pretty good. One thing that I need to start working on with her and I don’t know quite where to start is she thinks that ALL toys are her toys. There were a ton of kids there and toys everywhere and she wanted to play with them. Travis and Moo had left Keira’s Care Bear ball behind at Family Camp and I had managed to keep it away from Calie until the very day we left for White River and I was going to give it back to them. She popped it and the first thing she did when we got there was go after and pop Kambrie’s ball. UGH So I am going to buy them new balls. Travis got the Care Bear ball at BiMart and we don’t have a card to get in there so hopefully I can find her a ball that she’ll enjoy. After Bryan got our tent set up I let him watch Calie while I organized everything in the tent. Kambrie and Dylan wanted to come in the tent with me so they bounced on our aero bed while I set up our other stuff. We were the only tent campers there AGAIN. We have a pretty big/nice tent so it works but it would be nice to have a trailer to store things in and cook in and be able to take showers in etc. We’ll have to look into it and see if we can find one that we can afford since we do a lot of camping in the summer. Bryan and Calie went to bed pretty early, the guy’s played poker and we girls sat around the fire. We had fun chatting and relaxing. At one point I had Kambrie and Alexis on my lap and T came and got Kambrie to try and get her to sleep and Alexis went in to get cleaned up and ready for bed. Linda brought her back out all cozy in a blanket and she fell asleep on my lap. I think that I headed to bed around 11 or 12 and snuggled up against Bryan trying to get warm. It got pretty cold at night. In fact we were both pretty stiff the next morning because we pretty much stayed in the same position trying to keep warm. The next morning we got up and hung out. People were making Breakfast and it smelt SO good but Bryan and I weren’t really that hungry. I went for a little walk with Moo, Keira and Alexis. We took the dogs and they walked a head of us and got along well. It was funny they would get about 100 feet ahead of us and then stop, turn around and wait for us to catch up. When we got back we hung out...some people took naps, played games, read and just relaxed. Some of the guy’s went shooting and made a trip to the store and I tried to take a nap but it was too hot in the tent for me. For dinner Bryan and I had Tacos and Chips and salsa. I had prepared the meat ahead of time and froze it so all I had to do was heat it up and I made containers of cheese, lettuce and salsa plus we had Sour Cream. I had brought hard shells and soft shells but the soft ones did not taste good at all. I got the taco idea from my mom. She made these at Family Camp and I just loved that idea. We stayed up pretty late that night. It was a lot of fun!

Sunday morning we slept in a little I think like 9:30? We made Egg, sausage and cheese McMuffins for breakfast and later on when the Duffy’s were done with their breakfast we went on about a 3-4 hour hike. It was SO nice! We went on a search for a pioneer women’s grave but never found it. The guys went ahead and we waited for them…the road just kept going and going. Keira wanted to walk and play so it was hard for us to keep up with the guys so we just waited for them. When we got back Moo put Keira down for a nap and we sat around and chatted with Brandy before dinner. Calie and Bryan took a nap. Calie was WIPED out from the walk. Hehe We had Linda’s AMAZING spaghetti for dinner. I brought dessert (Brownies and cookies), Moo brought the bread, T brought wine and Brandy brought a yummy salad. After dinner we all cleaned up. The kids had spaghetti all over them. It was so cute. After everyone got cleaned up, we all watched Alexis and 2 boys that were there around her age hit a piñata. T brought it for Lex because she really wanted one for her b-day…I think? Nate took Kambrie down to the river to throw rocks because I guess she fell in love with the piñata and would just be heart broken if she had seen them break it. T had also brought glow in the dark sticks from the Dollar Store and all the kids just LOVED them. It was so funny watching them run around. Travis had put one on Mercy so I put one on Calie. Travis would throw the ball and you could see them run after it. It was pretty funny. Everyone went to bed pretty early that night. I had gotten into a card game with Nate, Jake and Travis and that took a while to get through so I went to bed around 11ish.
Monday morning we got up around 7:30 and got ready to go home. Bryan wanted to get home early to finish up his final project. We got everything packed up, said our goodbyes and left around 9. We got home around 10:15. Bryan must have sped the whole way because I think it takes longer than an hour and a half to and from where we camp?! Bryan unpacked the truck and I gave Calie a bath. I took about a 45min-hour HOT shower. It felt SO good. It was so dusty there and I felt dirty and disgusting. I cleaned up and got the laundry going and Bryan took his shower and started on his project. Calie and I went over to my parents to have a Labor Day dinner and my dad “helped” me wash the truck. I say “helped” me because he did pretty much the whole thing. Hehe I vacuumed it out and cleaned all the dust off the dash etc. He also helped me set up out tent so that I could hose it off and get all the dust off. It was pretty warm yesterday so it dried quickly. Calie and I were wiped out…she lay down on a blanket (which she never does…my fam always says we never see her laying down) and I tried to take a nap too. We had a yummy dinner and we played a card game. I went home around 8 did a few things around the house and went to bed. Bryan was still working on his project. In fact he never came to bed. He pulled an all-nighter. Hopefully he gets a good grade on it. It’s really good if I do say so myself. Check it out:

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