I know why they came up with the Fathers' and Sons' camp-out--so the mothers and daughters could have a break from these sweet masculine spirits! All week long Jacob and Gabe were counting down the days until Friday, while Seth was gearing himself up for a crazy weekend. The morning before the camp-out, Gabe crashed his little scooter in the driveway and came in crying with a big ugly scrape. After a few minutes he started screaming that it hurt so bad, and he wouldn't straighten his leg out or walk on it. I called Seth and he came home from work to run Gabe to the Instacare, where they x-rayed him and put a temporary cast on his leg. They called us back after a few hours and said nothing was broken, but to keep the cast on just in case.
Gabe woke up from a nap screaming for us to take it off, and we did--we felt like he would be ok He wouldn't walk, so I decided to keep him home. But when he heard he might miss the camp-out, he said, "Mommy, I wanna go
camping! I want my camping pants on!!!" He had been in shorts all day. I put them on, and miraculously he was healed! He hopped right up and ran out to the truck and didn't have any more problems. The little turkey--I think it was seeing the big scrape that had him so paranoid . . .
There are some things that are better kept secret from Mommy--like the fact that my boys camped
on a cliff . . . Apparently the whole ward did, but
still.
They camped and hiked somewhere between Zion's, Kolob, and Pine Valley.
This is my favorite--Gabe has started "shooting" arrows--this is him loading up his "bow." One finger is the bow and the other is an arrow. I think they had a great time tossing rocks off of the cliffs.
Don't we live in a beautiful place?
The girls and I had a great movie night in perfect peace--Evie hardly cried at all without Gabe to smother her to death! But we were glad when our boys came home. I don't think poor Seth slept a wink!
4 comments:
Cute! They had our Father and Sons camp out this weekend too. Jon wanted to take Ezra, but I said no. :) I'm such a stick in the mud. Then Jon wanted to take Lila and dress her up as a boy... That didn't happen either.
That looks so fun! In the abstract, of course :) Not being able to sleep is the worst. I had to spend a couple nights at YW camp last year, and we had cabins and everything, totally non -roughing it, but I had to sleep with just a sleeping bag and mattress pad on a wood slat, and it was horrible! I tossed and turned all night! It was a tangible reminder that really am getting older and my body knows it :(
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