A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
Kyle: Dinah, why do you have a nose?
Dinah: Because you do too.
Kyle: Why do you have two eyes?
Dinah: Because you do too.
Kyle: Why are your eyes blue?
Dinah: Because they are.
Kyle: What color are mommy’s eyes?
Dinah: Blue.
Kyle: Are your eyes blue because mommy has blue eyes?
Dinah: Yes
Kyle: Why is your hair yellow?
Dinah: Because, it’s mine!
Rebecca is exciting about camping. It’s never been an interest of mine, due to having to live out on the dirt, not take showers, and of course, deal with uneven ground and my bad ankles. However, she convinced us to go to the annual ward Father and Son camp out, which happened at the Cherry Campground of Hobble Creek, near Springville. I don’t know why the ward chose that area, but I was glad they did, once we arrived. It was very woodsy and close to the creek, and there were plenty of trees for shade. Considering the weather was overly hot through the past week, it was a welcome coolness.
I got off work a little early on Friday, as Rebecca met me at work and I loaded the boys and our camping equipment up in my car, and then we set off for Springville (after a quick stop at McDonalds for food). I was surprised with how far the campgrounds were into the mountains, as the directions said to simply go to a stop sign, turn right, and continue on to the camp. It was miles past there to the grounds, then miles more to the Cherry Camp.
We arrived and found other members from our ward, then set up the tent. Ethan and Jeremy tried to help (Ethan read the directions, both tried to set up the poles) and eventually we had our tent up.
The boys went exploring up the hillside where everyone else was going, and I just hung around the camp.
The boys found much pleasure in climbing up the hill and sliding down (notice all the dirty back sides?).
After a while, the boys decided they wanted to pee, so we made our way to the restrooms. I was surprised that they were more of a glorified outhouse (brick building with a hole in the ground, and a hollow toilet seat over it). Jeremy refused to use it at first, and we stayed outside whilst Ethan used the room. I showed Jeremy the posters on the walls of the bear and snake warnings.
He wasn’t too happy about them, and wanted to pack up and leave.
We stayed, though. Next time, we’ll probably bring campfire foods (marshmallows, hot dogs, etc) and just roast them, instead of doing McDonalds. They continued to play, and there wasn’t much structure to the evenings’ events. After a small fireside-like message, people started going to their tents to sleep. We ended up trying to watch a movie on my tablet, but the volume wasn’t good, so instead, we played with glow bracelets until we were all too tired.
It was hard having to sleep with a slight feeling like I had to pee. In the morning, we woke up early and all went to the bathroom, then made our way back to the camp to help make breakfast. There was more than enough food (supplied by the ward) and we had pancakes, sausage, hash browns, eggs, and juice to choose from. After everyone had their fill and we cleaned up, and the boys played some more, and we started tearing down tents and picking up random bits of trash, then went home.
No bears or snakes were seen, though.
Every month home depot has a workshop for kids where they get to make a project from start to finish. We’ve never actually been for one reason or another, but this morning we remembered about it ahead of time and planned on it. So Kyle took Ethan, Tyra and Jeremy and they each got to make a pencil box. At home depot they were also each given an orange home depot apron, to help protect their clothes while they were working on their projects. And they got a pin to represent their project to pin on their apron, and when they finished they received certificates for a free kids meal at Del Taco. They had LOADS of fun, and they have been carrying their pencil boxes, and the skateboard toys that they got in their kids meals around all day today.
This afternoon Kyle was putting together a new video cabinet so we can lock away the rest of the movies so little hands don’t hurt them. I was working on cleaning the kitchen and rearanging stuff in the storage room, but at one point I turned around and saw that Kyle had a bunch of little helpers in orange aprons:
I thought that was just so cute. 🙂
We didn’t give Kyle very much attention this father’s day, because it is also Chloe’s birthday. But like the awesome father that he is, he was willing to let Chloe have most of the attention for the day. 🙂 However before breaking into the birthday festivities, we made sure Kyle opened up his father’s day present:
I got him a pair of pac man pajama pants. 😀 Thinking about it now, I guess I should have had him model his pants so I could take a picture of him wearing them.
We got quite a bit of snow last night, so after walking Chewy, Kyle decided to spend the morning outside playing in the snow. BY HIMSELF!!! He kept telling the kids to come back in the house, and that they would see what he was doing when he was done! Ya like they were going to let him play out there by himself and just stand like good little children by the storm door to watch and see what he was creating out of the snow. When I went to see what Kyle was doing it looked as if he were just rolling ALL of the snow from our lawn into big balls and then he was putting them in a big pile. After he had spent what seemed like forever outside the kids ended up joining him anyways.
This was Chloe’s first time going out to play with fresh snow, and she is so CUTE!
The other kids had lots of fun too and even tried to help Kyle with his creation.
Eventually Kyle told me that his sculpture was supposed to be a dragon. Chloe didn’t stay out to play very long. Her poor hands were bright red, they were so cold. And her clothes were getting all wet! She was super mad when I brought her back in the house, but I just knew I had to get her dry and warmed back up!