Current Creek 2017

August 7th-11th.

My mom broke the heel of her foot about a week before Camp. So she was coming up on Monday with my dad this year. I didn't leave home until about 5 pm. Much later than I wanted, but I was trying to leave a clean house so there was a lot to do and I had to pack the car. The drive to Heber was good because William napped and since I had packed so much stuff, including the girls tablets, they just watched a movie during the drive. Made a pit stop at my parents house to go the bathroom and while I was there, I grabbed Lizzy's bike.

The drive to Current Creek is always beautiful. Makes me want to let everyone out of the car to run around. But it was late, and the sun was going down. And I wanted to be to camp before dark. We passed a lot of cows on the way up, and so since I had to slow down to get by them safely, I rolled the windows down for the kids and we "moo'd" to the cows.We even saw a couple of deer.

We finally pulled into camp around 7:30 pm. So while the kids got out and ran around, I unloaded the car. (Because mom had a broken foot, she couldn't move around and keep track of the kids for me this year; so I had extra work to keep track of all 3 while each was doing something different or going somewhere away from the others.) It took me a good while to get all our stuff out and figure out what to leave in the car (for space purposes). We started a fire and ate dinner. That night while My parents and Jeannette and Kaylee and Gary were at the table talking, I was in the trailer getting the kids ready for bed. (This was the occurrence every night). And because I had to curl up with William and make sure he and Lizzy fell asleep in their specific spots and not bother each other, I ended up just staying in the trailer and falling asleep with them.

I don't remember when these things occurred during the week so here they are in no specific order:

• Tuesday morning William woke up during the night so I was still tired when 8 am rolled around and William wanted to get up for the day. He of course woke up my parents. And dad got up and helped me with him. William woke up every night in the middle of the night, and sometimes a bottle would get him back to sleep and sometimes he would play for like an 1 hour and a 1/2 before he fell back asleep, and it was always a battle to not have him wake up Lizzy while crawling around, and everyone else with how loud he was. I took a nap a couple times during the week with him.
• Dad and I took the kids for a quick boat ride. Sydney leaned over and played in the water, and after watching Sydney, Lizzy did as well. Lizzy kept moving from the front of the boat (where dad was) to me in the back. William didn't want to be anywhere but on my lap. The girls had a lot of fun. And if we weren't in hurry, and the kids didn't like the wind, I wouldn't have minded staying out longer.
• Dad and Gary took Taya and Sydney out fishing for a little while. 
• We cooked smores over the fire every night
• it rained one day, and so we had to hurry and take down a lot of stuff and put it away because the wind was blowing so hard. In fact dad had to tie the tents over the tables to the trees so they wouldn't blow away. 
• One day William rolled a ball down the hill (we were like the third campsite from the bottom so it wasn't too far) and would chase after it. Lizzy started chasing after it too. But because it was in the road I followed for safety reasons. And eventually i started rolling the ball up hill so he would chase it up the hill. 
• When Taya got there and started riding her scooter/bike down the hill Sydney started doing it too. Sydney has gotten really good with her scooter. 
• Sydney wanted to eat fish really bad, and so one night Aaron (Taya's dad) cooked Taya's fish for her and so Sydney was sad she didn't get a fish. So I told Sydney to go ask Taya if she could have some of it. So the girls sat knee to knee eating fish. 
• Mom wanted to take the kids on a walk to the dock and so we did. The girls started throwing rocks in the water, so William go closer wanting to do the same. But he of course went into the water. And once he did that the girls did too. Current Creek isn't really a swimming lake. Its really cold. So they probably only played in the water for fifteen-ish minutes; but had a lot of fun. We had to leave the lake because it was the day the big rain storm happened. 
• It was really quite adorable. My dad and Aaron were splitting wood, so we had a stack of firewood. So William was watching this, and watched how after they split it they took it to the pile. So he started picking up the wood and carrying it to the wood pile. And at one point he even picked up a saw to help my dad cut up the wood. Of course we took the saw away, but the fact that he wanted to help was so adorable. 
•  So the day before we left Sydney started mixing a bunch of different stuff into a cup...calling it the "go away bee's drink". There were bees everywhere. And every time a meal was prepped and eaten they were everywhere. So Taya started helping her with this drink. And it stayed out all night. And so the next day while I packed the car, Sydney and Taya, and Lizzy, and even Beckham and William helped with this "drink". And Williams help consisted of dumping it out. The kids added, dirt, and random left over pieces of food, and pepper, and salt, and so much other stuff. 
• I went on a walk around the lower loop with just William. It was really nice and peaceful. A good bonding moment for the two of us. 
• One day, we asked Aaron if we could take the razor for a ride, so Dad and I (obviously mom couldn't come because of her foot :( ..) took the kids for a ride. We didn't go for very long because Jeanette wanted to go out. But we passed by a lot of cows. And William fell asleep on me, even though it was a really bumpy ride. The girls had a lot of fun. (side note, one day Lexi and Aaron took it out with their kids, and they were gone like 4 hours. They went really far away on top of the mountains on the other side of the lake, and showed us pictures of these beautiful vistas they saw.)

William helping with the wood.

William helping with the wood.

William helping with the wood.

William helping with the wood.

William helping with the wood.

William helping with the wood.

William helping with the wood.

William helping with the wood.

William helping with the wood.

William helping with the wood.