Sun. 16: Happy Father’s Day!! This morning we all slept in until past 8:00. I’m surprised that I was still able to sleep so long after sleeping so much yesterday. I felt a ton better today. We all got up and got ready for church and went to a local ward that was about fifteen minutes a way. We just went to Sacrament meeting. It was a really good meeting. Jase was so tired he looked like he would drop off to sleep at any minute.
We came back to the condo and ate lunch and then put the boys down for a nap. Janika made a big sign that said, “Welcome to Father’s Day Flee!” and hung it on the wall. She just couldn’t wait for the others to arrive. My mom and dad arrived around 4:30 or so and then Scott and Amy arrived an hour or so later. We had already started eating our chicken fajita dinner when Scott and Amy got here.
My stomach must still be sensitive because I felt sick again after eating a big dinner. There was no one in the office to check in our family members to their condos for a couple of hours. It was a good thing that we had our condo open for them to come to. Grandpa and Scott took all of the kids on a hike and they came back with a couple of caterpillars. They wanted to get more and so we all went on a little hike to the place where they found them and they filled up little sandwich bags with them.
Later on I
gave my lesson and passed out pictures from the gospel art kit of different
stories from the scriptures. Each of the
kids told how the person in their story was choosing the right. Then we played the game I had made that had
different situations and they had to choose with answer would show them
“choosing the right” best in that situation. It went well. Then the others
checked in to their condos. Scott and
Amy’s is right next to ours and so that has been fun for the kids to run back
and forth. Tonight they were all so
hyper and kept running back and forth between condos. Janika ended up sleeping over with
Alyssa. Kellen was going to sleep over here
with Jase and Jared but he ended up going back to his own condo. We were going to play games with my mom and
dad but it was already late by the time we got the kids down. I didn’t sleep well tonight and felt sick to
my stomach.
Mon. 17: I still felt sick this morning and threw up again. What is going on???? Today we spent the day at Pineview Reservoir. Scott and McKenna did their lesson this morning. They were assigned to do it on safety comparing the rules to the Sea-Doo to keeping the commandments. Rick wrote all of the rules on a big paper he had hung on the wall and gave his input and said that we would check back to see how everyone kept these rules after we got back. It took awhile to get everyone ready and to get out on the lake. It actually took awhile to get the sea-doos launched and all that.
Once we got settled though it was quite pleasant. We found a little beach spot and there was a nice shady spot there where I sat and watched the kids play. Amy had brought their nice camping chairs. Rick and Scott and Amy went out on the wave-runners and took turns with the kids. McKenna went several times and Kellen and Alyssa went. Rick took Janika out for a ride but she was a little nervous and wanted to go back. Jase didn’t want to go. I would have gone had I not been pregnant. I was still feeling a little dizzy and queasy and just sat in the shade and didn’t venture out into the water. The weather was perfect. The kids were really good and spent most of their time building sand castles and mud puddles and damns on the beach and playing in the water close to the shore. Jase and Jared kept their tubes on the entire time. Even Jared was so good playing happily. They were all exhausted by the time we left several hours later and all of the kids in our car fell asleep on the way home.
We came
home and called my mom to tell her that we were back. She had stayed behind at their condo and
relaxed and worked on her lesson while the rest of us went. Rick went for a little swim while I bathed
the boys and then I went for a nice swim while he bathed Janika. I had just thrown up AGAIN but felt better
after I did. I took it easy on dinner
tonight. Tonight all of the kids were
having a video party in Scott and Amy’s condo while we had a video party in
ours. They watched “The Jetsons” and we
watched “Miss Congeniality.” Gerilyn and
Abbee showed up around 8:45 or so and stayed with us in our condo.
Tues. 18: I slept much better last night except for Jared waking up at 4:30 in the morning. I didn’t even hear him the first time and Gerilyn had gotten up with him. I ended up bringing him in bed with Rick and I as soon as I got him settled down and he went right to sleep. This morning Rick gave his lesson. He did a great job and it kept the kids attention for the most part but I think it is too long to give hour and a half lessons for a family thing like this especially with such young children. He really likes to get in depth though and likes everyone to really get in to the scriptures and mark them and write notes in them etc.
After his lesson we all went to the pool and went swimming. We fixed lunches on our own and have just been relaxing this afternoon. Scott took his older kids fishing and Kemery stayed home with Amy to take a nap. Our boys both took naps and so did Rick and I. Janika never takes naps and so she stayed up and watched TV. I don’t know what Grandma and Grandpa have been doing all afternoon. Jani and I read some stories together and wrote in her journal and Rick just played a game with her. Rick’s mom called and might come and spend the night.
Wed. 19: This morning Scott and Amy’s family left early and then Mom and Dad left around 11:00. We ended up going to Ogden and Rick and I went to see the movie “Star Wars” while the kids stayed at Grandma’s. Madee came back with us to the condo and slept over. We didn’t get back until almost midnight and so it was pretty hectic getting tired onery kids to bed.
Thurs. 20: We went over to the other time share – Wolf Creek and went swimming in their pool. We had been told that we could do that. It was really nice. They had a big baby pool which was only a foot deep and so it was perfect for Jared. The kids mostly stayed in the baby pool. There was a water slide in the other pool but Janika was too chicken to try it. Madee tried it out. It is just like the curvy slides at the park except a little taller. Adults can’t really go on it. This resort is really nice – there are two or three big pools and a big hot-tub. There was a nice area with picnic tables. We had brought some bagels and cream cheese and the left-over PBJ sandwiches and ate it for lunch at the picnic area. There is also a nice big exercise room and some really nice tennis courts. If we come up here again we might want to go to this condo instead of the Powder Ridge one. There is pros and cons. This one is more crowded but has more amenities and is closer to town. Tonight after dinner we all went for a hike up to where the ski lifts are. We played ball and “Mother May I.”
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