Cub Scout Camp Day1

What?  Why are you doing Cub Scout Camp?  I didn't know you work with Cub Scouts? 

Well, I don't.  But my friend that is our Den Leader is 9+ months pregnant (being enduced on Friday), so I agreed to do camp for her.  Now don't say I'm such a nice person, because I'm really not, and there are only a few people I would do this for, and she is one of them.

So I am a Den Leader for 8 Bear Scouts for this whole week, 8am-3pm.  Tyson is a Den Chief for a Wolf den, and Zach is a participant as a Webelo.  They have a chipmunk camp for all the non participating siblings of the people working at camp, so Emma and Tess go to the Chipmunk camp.  It's a family affair.

Day 1 went fairly well, there was actually quite a bit of down time, and I had to keep the boys entertained.  But my boys are all pretty good, except one, but 1 in 8 isn't bad odds (right?).  The only scarry part was at the end when I thought I lost a boy.  Turns out that his nanny picked him up and didn't tell me - naughty nanny!!  So after that mild heart attack, I calmed down and went home. 

Now I am lying on the couch not moving, and I have no idea what we are having for dinner.  Luckily everyone else wants to sit and do nothing too, so again, its a family affair.

Life Ends Today

I am not one of those mothers that can't wait till summer vacation to have her kids home.  In fact, I am the exact oposite of those mothers.  I hate (maybe thats too strong a word, no I think it's about right) having my kids home ALL DAY EVERY DAY! 

This is what summer vacation means to me:

fighting,

messes,

headaches,

more fighting,

more messes,

yelling,

crabiness,

ungratefullness,

complaining,

whining 

packing,

unpacking,

driving,

more driving,

coordinating schedules,

and more fighting.

The one positive is that my alarm clock gets to be turned off for most days.  So today, is the end of my happy life for he next 2 1/2 months.  Today at 12:06 pm to be exact.

Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Memorial Day fun

I finally have something fun to blog about.  For Memorial Day weekend we had a big adventure.  Actually it was more like a week long, instead of a weekend which is even better.

Thursday morning the kids and I loaded up in the truck with bikes and gear, and headed for St. George, UT, my brother Andy's house.  About 2 hours after we got there, we unloaded all the girls stuff and loaded all of Andy's stuff and his boys, Alec and Nathan, and all the boys headed north - final destination Island Park, ID, by way of Salt Lake that evening.  My two boys, my nephews, Andy, my sister Adriann and her family, and my parents, treked up to the cabin to go fishing for the weekend.  The girls and I got to stay in St. George and play with Jenna and her girls for the weekend.  It was wonderful!!  We had such a ball.  The boys on the other hand, were wet and cold all weekend and didn't catch any fish.  Oh well, I had fun!

So our girls weekend (Friday to Tuesday) was full of fun, good food, and shopping.

The girls on our first day of fun.  front to back, left to right: Tess, Elisabeth, Annie, & Emma

My awesome SIL Jenna.  I could have given her the chance to turn and look at me, but where's the fun in that?

We got and gave pedicures

Played at fun parks

Splashed at a fun splash park

Dug in the sand at the sand dunes.  Note to any St.George visitors, go to the dunes first thing in the morning, the sand gets hot!

3 of our boys have birthdays close together.  Tyson is the end of May, and Nathan and Alec are in June.  So we did a HUGE joint birthday cake, and it was good!!!

Had to add this silly picture and me and Tess.

So our 5 days in St. George were wonderful.  It was relaxing, rejuvinating, and stuffing (I ate too much!)

My 3 extra pounds at the end of trip came courtesy of: Cafe Rio, Cold Stone, Sweet Tooth Fairy, Jimmy Johns, Pizza, Costco churros and smoothies, Gummie Bears, Chocolate shakes, and Birthday Cake.  I think it was well worth it.