Beginning Our Vacation

Friday night we went to a potluck dinner with the Deaf community while Jase attended a birthday party for one of his friends. We stayed up very late moving furniture since we have a friend putting in our new carpet while we are out of town. We were all so tired. The boys were begging, "Please let us go to bed!" You don't hear that very often!

The next morning we packed the car and straightened up the house and up North to go stay at a condo called "Wolf Creek Village" up in Eden, Utah. The drive took FOREVER! Our 15 passenger van is natural gas (actually bi-fuel) but Rick likes to use the natural gas whenever possible because it is so much cheaper. It also doesn't go as far though. Rick had looked up the natural gas stations on the Internet that were between our home and Ogden. We stopped about every hour at one of them. This added at least an extra hour on to our trip because of course all of the kids thought they needed to get out of the car and walk around and go to the bathroom. Thankfully Jenna was a perfect angel the whole way. All of the kids were actually pretty good and watched movies the whole way. Of course we did get the "are we there yet??" and "how much longer?" every five minutes!

When we finally arrived in Ogden, we stopped to pick up Janika from Gerilyn's house. Janika had stayed up North trading off houses with Grandma and Gerilyn and her cousins for a week so that her Grandma could teach her how to quilt. We picked her up and then headed to the condo. It was pouring rain and very cold. We fixed dinner and then went to bed. Rick and I are spoiled by our king bed. This one was supposed to be a queen but it looked more like a full to us. It was much too small! Rick woke up with a huge kink in his neck and shoulder.

Sunday we went to the nearest ward in Eden. The whole Sacrament Program was about the Pioneer Trek that their youth had just completed. It was perfect for us since Janika, Rick, and I are all going on our Stake Pioneer Trek next month. The youth did a nice job on their talks and it got us excited for our own experience. We came back to the condo and played around a little and then headed to Draper for the Father's Day Party at my brother's house.