This is the first time since we have been in the ward we got to go to the campout. I was able to get Saturday off, so we headed up to Mt. Lemmon after I got off of work on Friday. The whole way up Braydenn was crying, so we finally pulled over so I could hold him so he would be quiet. We got there around 5:30pm, unloaded the van, which by the way, for just spending one night up there, we had a ton of stuff to unload! I guess when you have 4 kids, you can't just take an ice chest and a tent. We set up the tent, and then the ward started the fire and we all sat around and ate what we had brought. We decided to BBQ hot dogs and have chips and pasta salad. After we all ate and cleaned up, we all gathered around the fire and did skits from Church History. We as an Elders Quorum did our skit on Brigham Young "This is the Place". It was a good time trying to guess what everyone was doing, because we couldn't talk when we acted out the skits. We then made smores, cleaned up, and headed for bed. As for that... didn't go over so well with Braydenn. I was very tired from working all day, and my body clock telling me that I usually have to be up in 2hrs for work(1:30am). First Braydenn didn't want in his pop-up crib, then Jess had to hold him, then Jess had to walk outside the tent and none of this worked. He would lay down for 30-45 minutes and then be up for an hour or more. And to compound the problem, me and Brother Don were having a snoring contest that everyone could hear!! Not a good night for Jess. Everyone got up for breakfast around 6:30am, except me, and ate and then started taking down the tents. The Young Women went on a nature walk, and I played with the boys and helped Jess pack up everthing. We headed down the mountain around 11:30, and about 2/3rds of the way down, Rynn had to go potty. We stopped at an outhouse, but he would'nt use it, so he pee-peed on a bush next to it. We got no futher then maybe 2 miles farther down, and Rynn puked. While we were cleaning up that, Braydenn puked! Not good! Also, Braydenn cried the whole way down, but he had an excuse this time. Nothing like the smell of string cheese and gatorade the second time! We finally got home around 1:30pm, unloaded and watched the U of A beat up on UCLA on T.V. Not a good first family camping trip, but a memorable one to say the least.
