No kids for two days

My parents said they would tend while we went on the trek. Originally I was going to meet my parents half way and drop off the kids, but Tennille decided she would drive them down for me. (bless her heart!) It saved me so much time. Anyway, my Grimshaw family in Enoch decided to have a birthday party for my grandma and Tennille decided to go so on Monday (June 9) she came at 1 p.m. to pick up my kids. Trent and Tyler were so excited to go. They kept asking me when they got to go to grandma’s WITHOUT me. Tyler also kept saying "how come we only get to stay for 6 days?" Anyway, we loaded them in Tennille's van and I ran inside to get a couple more things. When I went back outside Tennille had the movie going and they wouldn’t even respond to me (the boys) Kara looked at me and said "mommy?" and started to cry, she realized I was not going. She quit crying as they drove away and I think they did ok on the way down. Tennille and my mom said Kara called them mom. Tennille, I still can’t believe that you drove down there with all 5 of them by yourself!

I kind of cried for about a minute, then I got on with all the stuff that I still needed to get ready. We still hadn’t decided what to sleep on. I got the tent measurements from Ray and went to the store to find an air mattress. I had a hard time finding a full/double, our tent was tiny and that was the biggest that would fit. I also got snacks and other last minute items. When Ray got home that night he didn’t know what to do with himself, he asked me what we used to do before we had kids. It was quite ODD not having them around, but they were having fun at grandma’s.


Tuesday I found an air mattress and it came with a battery pump so I was glad and it was super inexpensive. I spent the whole day getting ready. Then we went to the church at 6:30 p.m. for the bucket weigh in and to take all our stuff over there. Each of us had a 5 gallon bucket that we used as a suitcase and it couldn’t weigh more than 17 pounds. All of the youth had the same requirements and so the stake weighed them and stored the buckets by families in the gym. We stayed there until all 9 of our kids brought there’s and then we went to the store to get some candy for Ray (well for me to, but it was Ray’s idea) When we got home I remembered that I hadn’t finished my apron, so I sewed that real quick then it was off to bed.