Hello, Me again. I know it has been a while. So much has happened that I couldn't even give an appropriate recap to catch up to where life has brought us. So I am just going to start here, and tell you about life right now and hopefully I can keep a better updated blog.
Members of the Family:
Kevin: Currently working at Continental Bank in Salt Lake City. Has one Semi on the road, loves airplanes, and is super handsome.
Jenna: Staying at home with the kids, doing some paperwork for the Semi Truck, trying to decide if I should chop all of my hair off, and currently is loving hogie sandwiches.
Camille: Just started swimming lessons and online preschool, loves to create things, is the best big sister, and is honestly the smartest and sweetest girl that I know.
Jason: Recently started sleeping in a toddler bed without ANY PACIFIRES!!!! Wahoo! Loves trucks, chips, and grandpa. He has such a good sense of humor, but has just started the phase where he loves to tease his older sister.
Sadie: 6 weeks old, wakes up 2-3 times per night, very calm, starting to try to talk, and has recently started smiling! (I think we are starting to get to a better age! yay!)
Can you believe that I have three children? I can't, and yet I don't remember my life before them. It is like I have always had them.
Right now we are living in Layton, Utah in a retirement subdivision. Ha! We actually love it, but we didn't know what we were moving into when we signed the contract. They come and mow the lawns for us, and do the weeding so that is really nice. Especially with a new little baby.
We took Sadie camping at 4 weeks old. She did AWESOME! In fact, she slept the best of all of the kids. It was highly unusual. We went to the campground Monte Cristo above Huntsville. It was so beautiful. Camille was "painting" our wood with dirt the whole time, and Jason was making dry mud pies. I have never seen them so dirty. They loved it. Kevin built a tripod thing for camping this year and it is awesome. We made hot chocolate on it and I predict a lot more delicious food being made one it.
I realize this is a little sporadic and all over the place, but I just wanted to get something down to start with. I really want to start writing in a journal again, and I think that this is the place where I am going to journal at. So much is going on in our lives, and this seems like as good of a spot to document what is going on as any.
I love my kids, my husband, and Jesus Christ. I can't wait to share with you what is going on in our lives now. And I can't wait to look back and remember all of the fun and wonderful and maybe trying times that we have had.
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Friday, July 13, 2018
First Family Camping Trip
Lets set the scene, we have a 4 year old, a 2 year old, and a 1 month old. We want to go do things, but with a new baby it is a little hard. But Kevin and I think to ourselves, "if we always are waiting until the baby is older, then Camille and Jason are not going to have any memories at this age." So off we go camping with a 1 month old. We want our kids to have so many good memories of being with family, and we love camping and want to share it with our kids. I just hope our kids know how much we love them.
A couple months ago Kevin went on a motorbike ride up in the mountains by Huntsville and he thought it was so beautiful and wanted to go camping. There is a campground there called Monte Cristo. So we went there and it was perfect.
Kevin got home from work around 3 o'clock and we started packing the truck. Our truck is older, and we haven't put 3 car seats in it before, so it took some jimmy rigging the car seats a little bit but we finally got them in. Getting them in took forever. We ended up leaving our house at 5. We usually eat dinner at 6, but the drive up to Monte Cristo took a little over an hour. So we got there around 6 ish, but still needed to make dinner and set up the tent and everything before it got dark. So we split up and I started cutting up potatoes and Kevin set up the tent, then we switched and Kevin started the Charcoal for the dutch oven and I started setting up sleeping bags. We finally got everything set up and dinner ready. We made potato, bacon, and onion casserole(?) in the dutch oven. I am not exactly sure what you would call it, but it is delicious. We love it.
While we were doing all of the above, Camille and Jason "painted wood" with dirt and played in the dirt. I have never seen them so dirty. It made them so happy. Our campsite was close to the bathrooms, which doesn't seem like a detail I should include in this story, but when you have a 4 year old it is really important. Camille was able to go by herself and she had to climb over a fallen tree and I am sure that she thought she was the coolest 4 year old in the world.
We let the kids stay up a little later and roast marshmallows. Jason didn't actually love eating them, but he LOVED roasting the marshmallows. So we let him roast (burn) several marshmallows. He thought it was the best thing ever.
Sadie was awesome while we were setting everything up. She hung out in her bouncer for the most part and then later during the night we held her. We finally got Jason and Camille to sleep which is amazing because I forgot to give Jason his pacifier. It was the first night he fell asleep without his pacifier. It gave me hope to take his pacifier away. We eventually gave it to him because he was struggling a little bit to stay asleep, but it was a success that he actually fell asleep without it.
Kevin had made this awesome thing that goes over the fire so we can cook on it and warm up water, and so we warmed up some water and made some hot chocolate and sat by the fire. It was such a nice hour to sit and relax and drink hot chocolate with my love.
That night Sadie slept so awesome. We put her in a little snowsuit to keep her warm and she slept so great. In fact one time when Jason woke up I leaned over to see if she was still alive because she was sleeping so good. Jason on the other hand did not sleep so well. We got these new kid sized air mattresses for the kids, and Jason just could not stay on it. I think next time we go camping we will just leave the air mattresses at home.
The next morning we woke up and had breakfast (which the kids didn't like) and started packing up camp. When we got the last thing packed up into the truck it started raining pretty hard. It was perfect timing.
It was so nice to go camping, but being the adult is hard. Having to set up camp and do all the cooking and all the grown up stuff. It was a lot of work, but so worth it because Camille and Jason made some good memories and we got to spend some good quality time together as a family.
We hope to get some more camping in this year, and every year after this. And we hope to make many more wonderful memories with our family.
A couple months ago Kevin went on a motorbike ride up in the mountains by Huntsville and he thought it was so beautiful and wanted to go camping. There is a campground there called Monte Cristo. So we went there and it was perfect.
Kevin got home from work around 3 o'clock and we started packing the truck. Our truck is older, and we haven't put 3 car seats in it before, so it took some jimmy rigging the car seats a little bit but we finally got them in. Getting them in took forever. We ended up leaving our house at 5. We usually eat dinner at 6, but the drive up to Monte Cristo took a little over an hour. So we got there around 6 ish, but still needed to make dinner and set up the tent and everything before it got dark. So we split up and I started cutting up potatoes and Kevin set up the tent, then we switched and Kevin started the Charcoal for the dutch oven and I started setting up sleeping bags. We finally got everything set up and dinner ready. We made potato, bacon, and onion casserole(?) in the dutch oven. I am not exactly sure what you would call it, but it is delicious. We love it.
While we were doing all of the above, Camille and Jason "painted wood" with dirt and played in the dirt. I have never seen them so dirty. It made them so happy. Our campsite was close to the bathrooms, which doesn't seem like a detail I should include in this story, but when you have a 4 year old it is really important. Camille was able to go by herself and she had to climb over a fallen tree and I am sure that she thought she was the coolest 4 year old in the world.
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| If you look in the background you can see the bathrooms. Isn't that perfect for a 4 year old? |
Sadie was awesome while we were setting everything up. She hung out in her bouncer for the most part and then later during the night we held her. We finally got Jason and Camille to sleep which is amazing because I forgot to give Jason his pacifier. It was the first night he fell asleep without his pacifier. It gave me hope to take his pacifier away. We eventually gave it to him because he was struggling a little bit to stay asleep, but it was a success that he actually fell asleep without it.
Kevin had made this awesome thing that goes over the fire so we can cook on it and warm up water, and so we warmed up some water and made some hot chocolate and sat by the fire. It was such a nice hour to sit and relax and drink hot chocolate with my love.
That night Sadie slept so awesome. We put her in a little snowsuit to keep her warm and she slept so great. In fact one time when Jason woke up I leaned over to see if she was still alive because she was sleeping so good. Jason on the other hand did not sleep so well. We got these new kid sized air mattresses for the kids, and Jason just could not stay on it. I think next time we go camping we will just leave the air mattresses at home.
The next morning we woke up and had breakfast (which the kids didn't like) and started packing up camp. When we got the last thing packed up into the truck it started raining pretty hard. It was perfect timing.
It was so nice to go camping, but being the adult is hard. Having to set up camp and do all the cooking and all the grown up stuff. It was a lot of work, but so worth it because Camille and Jason made some good memories and we got to spend some good quality time together as a family.
We hope to get some more camping in this year, and every year after this. And we hope to make many more wonderful memories with our family.
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