Wow, What A Weekend

We had a whirlwind weekend. We went up north on Thursday evening to spend time with family for the 4th. The weekend included a trip to the parade, then a quick picnic, then up camping with my parents, my sister and her family, and my cousin Gary. After arriving at my parents house, we realized we had forgotten most of our food, and it was still sitting at home on the table. Guess that's what happens when you are rushing like crazy to get out of the house to try to get up north before darkness fell over the very busy roads! We survived, even without half the food.

Camping was fun and included watching the fireworks from a high ridge line with my sister and nieces. We went for a drive before heading out to the ridge to watch the fireworks, which were only fifteen minutes long, I think. They were pretty, but very short and they were set off before 9:30, so it wasn't even completely dark. We pulled up to the ridge line just as they started. Fortunately, we weren't a few minutes late, or we would have missed them!! One niece was worried that it was getting dark and the bears were going to come eat us and we needed to leave. We kept trying to assure her that we were probably making enough noise to keep all things away.

On our drive before seeing the fireworks, we enjoyed a beautiful sunset. I must say that God's show was more amazing and more enjoyable! The colors in sunset were absolutely beautiful and received many ooh's and ahh's from our nieces.

We enjoyed relaxing, walks, playing, and a couple drives. The three dogs that were with had a great time, as well, being able to go swimming in the creek and play with the nieces for hours.


These two turkeys hiding in the daisies also had some little ones with them, but they scurried off too fast to get their pictures.



We drove home late Saturday night with my mother-in-law along. It was funny to walk in the house and have to unpack an amazingly large box of packed food, that never left the house. Yes, there was the bread, corn on the cob, bag of freshly cut lettuce, seasonings, s'more fixings, and some other snacks that we were missing for camp.


Sunday involved a whirlwind trip to central Washington to take hubby's mom over to meet some of her friend's so she can go on vacation with them. It was a long, almost eight hour round trip drive! It always is a long drive, just one way, but was even longer since we had been camping and were tired to begin with. Our dog looked like a bobble head dog as she rode in the back of the car, trying to stay awake. Her head would go up and down, up and down, until she finally gave in and went to sleep. It will be good to hit the bed tonight and get some good sleep, after a long, full, great weekend.