Labor Day Weekend

This weekend we went camping with the DePoys at Jellystone Campground in Cave City, KY. This was our first "outing" with the new camper. We were so excited, we started packing on Monday to leave on Thursday! After everything was loaded and the brake lights were checked, we were off. We spent Thursday night visiting with family and ran a few errands on Friday morning before heading over to the campground. We got the camper set up, cooked out some hamburgers and waited for Blaine, Angie, Hannah and Wesley to get there. Upon their arrival, John helped them set up and off to bed we went. Blaine and John got up early the next morning and headed to the woods to deer hunt, while the rest of us hung around the campground. Breakfast and a Swing. . .Not a Good Combination

Angie's mom walked the kids up to the pavilion where they were painting water bottles. When we got up there they were playing on the playground. There was a tire swing that the kids all thought was the coolest. They wanted us to spin them around and around and around. Well, after spinning a few times, Dillon and Faith started looking a little green. I told them it was time to stay off of the swing, but they insisted that they were o.k. and headed back for it. This time, Angie gave them a spin. After they got going good, Dillon hollered to let him off. . .he walked over to me and before I could get up, his breakfast was on the ground. As soon as I got to him, Faith came to the other side and lost her breakfast. Before this, Audra was enjoying her breakfast, now she was screaming wanting to know where it went. Wesley was standing there watching Dillon and Faith and was contemplating losing his breakfast until Angie got him away. Hannah was the only smart one. . she just went to the other side of the playground. It was one of those moments that we just had to laugh at. Needless to say, the tire swing was off limits after that.
Faith Loses Another Tooth

The tooth fairy had to visit us while were camping as well. Sunday morning Faith told us her tooth was really loose. After working on it all morning, Nana persuaded her to pull it for $2.00. The tooth fairy brought her a Susan B. Anthony dollar. (thanks granddaddy!)
Sixty Years of Marriage and Committment

We celebrated my grandparents 60th wedding anniversary on Sunday. It was good to be with family and spend such precious time with them. All of my aunts, uncles and cousins were there. There were so many little ones. My grandparents have 7 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. My Aunt Teresa had a video put together as part of their present. It was awesome! It had pictures of grandmother and granddad growing up, then their children, then the grandchildren and even the great-grandchildren. I wondered if grandmother was really aware of what was going on (she had a really bad stroke a few years ago), but John said that she was saying "yep, that's me" and that she cried some. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDDAD! May you have many more happy years together!
The Trip Home

After we were all packed up and started putting the camper down, we realized that one of the tires was flat. John had to jack the camper back up and put the spare tire on. Our first stop after we left the campground was a gas station to air up the tire he put on as well as the tire he took off. Everything was going very well until we hit Somerset (about an hour and a half from Glasgow). The tire on the opposite side from the morning blew out. John did a very good job controlling the vehicle and we thank God that no other vehicles were around. He pulled us onto a side road and got out to survey the damage. It wasn't good. While he was jacking up the camper (again), a couple of guys stopped by to help. They got the spare put on and then followed us to the gas station to put some fix a flat in it (remember, it was the original flat tire from the morning ordeal) and we were on the road again. But the saga doesn't end there. We got about 30 minutes down the road--10 miles from London, our 1/2 way point from home and that tire decided to blow out. This time, we didn't have a spare, so we had to unhook the camper and head to Walmart Tire, Lube and Express to purchase a new tire. By this time, we were at our wits end. The kids had done absolutely wonderful, it was mommy and daddy who were starting to fall apart. It was meltdown city for me. I was just ready to be home (as was the consensus of everyone). Finally, after 8 hours on the road we pulled into our driveway. We felt like kissing the ground. . .we were just too tired to bend down!