June

The last few months have been crazy busy with camping, scouts, sickness, family outings, and everything else! I have finally decided that I couldn't put off updating this blog any longer. I am going to do this by months since it has been awhile and hopefully nobody will get sick of reading it. In the beginning of June we packed up the family and headed off to good ol' Tooele for a camping trip and so the kids could go to camp Hobe. After setting up camp we headed over to our friends, the Reed family, for dinner and some fun. The kids had a great time playing together and Cristi had made an excellant dinner! Then it was back to the canyon where we let Josh roast marshmallows before making the kids go to bed. The next day was the first day of camp! Camp Hobe is an excellant camp set up for cancer kids and their brothers and sisters. Since Josh isn't old enough and Zach can't stay overnight we had signed them up for the daycamp. They were both very excited and loved all the activities, like swimming, crafts, singing, and story time. While the boys were at camp Christian and I spent the day driving back to Sandy to pick up Zachs swim float (luckily we made it back in time for swimming at camp), trying to find a Fathers Day present for Christian, and looking in a fun little scrapbooking store. After we picked the boys up from camp we all went bowling. The boys love to bowl and we all had a lot of fun. After that we met back up with the Reed family and went to a really fun public pool that even had a waterslide. The kids were sad when it was time to head back to camp but they needed to head to bed for camp the next day. After dropping the boys off for their second day of camp, Christian and I headed back and packed up all the camp stuff and put down the trailer. Then it was back to wandering around Tooele trying to find something fun to do. We ended up going to lunch and back to the scrapbooking store! Then we picked up the kids and headed on home.

After that excitement we spent a couple of quiet days at home and then it was time for Cub Country! I got to be one of the leaders, so Zach could go, so we dropped off Josh as Grandmas and headed up the canyon to Fort Wilderness. Zach had so much fun! They had some really neat activities including panning for gold, learning to rope and use a whip, and his all time favorite BB guns. I was afraid he wouldn't like the noise of the guns but he was so excited and threw an absolute fit when his turn was over. There was a very nice counsler up there that took Zach on as his special buddy and made sure that he was able to do everything.

Sadly that night Zach started getting sick. As we soon found out there was an outbreak of swine flu at camp Hobe and my luckly little boy was one that had brought it home. After he had been sick for a couple of days I ended up with it as well. Luckily, the doctors treated Christian and Josh so that they didn't get it, but it made for a long two weeks being under quarentine until it was gone. The rest of the month we just played at home or at Lagoon. I'll post about July within the week!