First of all, what a blessing sun block is! Kevin, Chris, Spencer and I went to Bear Lake for the weekend with the in-laws. The sun usually bakes me within the first 30 minutes of arriving to the lake. However, I took care to make sure sunscreen was applied liberally, especially Saturday when we spend all day at the beach and playing on the boat. Now that I am home, I see I’ve returned with sun-kissed cheeks, arms, knees and feet but crispy, I am not. Chris, however, would put a lobster to shame, I think he is border blisters. Poor guy didn’t do so well applying the sun block and he only applied it once. Kevin did an excellent job not getting burnt. However, his sister assisted him in applying sunblock to his back and now he has sunburnt blotches.
Kevin did a fantastic job water skiing. He tried kneeboarding too but wasn’t as successful. I have done neither, but through my observations knee boarding looks much more difficult. While I didn’t see anyone crash while water skiing, the crashes I witnessed while people were kneeboarding look disturbingly painful! I have videos, and if I ever get the time to put those onto the computer I’ll post them here. I’m glad everyone was safe and there were no accidents.
Camping with Spencer for the first time went pretty smoothly. That little boy does not want to miss a thing so he didn’t sleep much but he was in a fantastic mood, considering, anyway! He also did a great job being passed around so much. Hopefully as he gets older he will continue to enjoy new faces. He did get sunburnt just ever so slightly on his cheeks but not too bad. I’m glad it wasn’t worse. He waded into the lake and I helped him sit in it for a few minutes. We also have that on video. He looked so darn cute in his swim trunks and water shirt and sun hat! He’s going to be a lady killer.
I had a good time talking with my mother-in-law on the beach. I’m glad I have a mother-in-law I can get a long with and enjoy her company. She has so many wonderful grandma ideas, it will be so fun when Spencer is older and can make some of those ideas a reality. One night we made bead bracelets. I’ll take some pictures and post those up.
The morning of Kevin’s birthday we made eggs, sausage, bacon, hashbrowns, and french toast. It turned out totally delicious. That night we had dutch oven. My mother-in-law made some kind of chicken tortilla dish that was delicious. The potatoes my sister-in-law brought did not look appetizing at all. She had cut them and then froze them so they were BLACK! Of course I tried eating some anyway and they weren’t bad, though I could taste zero seasoning so they seemed like pretty plain potatoes. We made dutch oven s’mores. They turned out lovely, though we’ve learned that they need to be eaten while warm or else the marshmallows get crunchy, interesting.
I enjoyed our first night there were we had tin foil dinners. We used potatoes, onions, bell peppers, radishes, cheese, and hot dogs in them. Not to mention plenty of salt and pepper. They were delicious! Then we sat around the fire and talked, joked, and just enjoyed the evening and the company.
I’m also grateful for how well my allergies behaved themselves. I have extremely bad hay fever and there was cotton all over the campground. It was so thick that it went up to my ankles when I had to walk through it, and when the wind blowed it seemed like it was snowing. But aside from a few sneezing fits, only a couple stuffy/runny noses and hardly any itchy eyes, it was great. I am unable to take my allergy medication because of nursing Spencer so this year has been a little difficult for me. I’m so glad I was able to enjoy the weekend without killer allergies.
I also have to thank whoever invented indoor plumbing. I will rough it as rough as you want, except for the toilet. I really like my flushable toilets! I know how silly this is, but when I was 6 or 7 my parents built a house. During construction we just had an outhouse until the plumbing was finished, which we moved in before all of that was totally complete. I hated going to the outhouse early in the mornings and late at night. But one time I opened the door and there were spider webs with their accompanying spiders all over the place, including a web made in the whole of the seat! I was absolutely mortified. Since then I have had an issue using outhouses. To make it worse, I saw an episode of X-Files where there’s this white, albino, creature thing that gets into something. While I don’t remember exactly what it was, my 10-year-old brain remembers it as looking like the catch basin of an outhouse. This thing ate people, my memory tells me. Whether this is really what the episode showed or not, I have since been even MORE scared to use an outhouse! And I certainly don’t like squatting in the wilderness either! I love my husband so much for making sure that we had flushable toilets while camping, and that’s not the first time either.
So it was a great weekend, we had a fabulous time and are looking forward to going back next year!
