Bustling around for vacation

Our vacation will be coming up next week. I have a long list of "TO DO" before we go. I already reserved a room in a motel in Rawlins, Wyoming. Clint preferred that we are to go there on Wednesday and stay a night before we have to be at Martin's Cove at 11 a.m. all ready and dressed up in pioneer clothes. We will have to pack up with tent and stuff. We will be camping out at Martin's Cove, stay with mom and dad for six days in Rapid City then go down to Medicine Bow National Park to camp out with Clint's family. It will be a week and half vacation and I am glad we are able to do all at once in one time so we can save the money from being spent on gas.
I will have to make sure that we are all packed up, pioneer clothes being all done, bills being paid, Shadow being taken care before we go. I am going to borrow canopy from my sister so we can stock camping stuff into there.
I am not done with food storage but I understood that it is a project in process here. I can put it on hold for a little while.
I hope to finish bonnets for girls today. I am done with aprons and bloomers. I'm glad. Tomorrow, I will have to get started on vests for Timmy and Clint.
Fun fact here . . . There are many UPS stores that will do same day MTC delivery for just two dollars to four dollars. I sent a huge 16 lbs box yesterday and just paid 4 dollars for it.
Last weekend was crazy! We managed to survive through it! We had fun carnival, visit to cousins in Syracuse, house chores, and helping my sister out. It was so hectic that I felt so worn by Sunday!

On Friday, I took them over to my sister's house and they played with their cousins. I had lots of fun watching Sebastian and Timmy hanging out together. They both are just a month apart. They keep on following each other, imitating each other and playing games with each other. They talked with each other but I don't know what they told each other. Probably holding conversation about how they don't want to go in for naptime. Ha ha. The other older kids enjoyed jumping on the trampoline and swinging. Girls have had their princess tea parties and the boys played Wii games. In between those times, they played with water balloons. For some reason, girls decided that the water balloons are eggs and they keep on moving their hoard over this spot and that spot. Sometimes, on cruel mean streak, boys decide to smash their eggs just to watch girls' reactions. We ended putting some of them in time-out- especially Ian!


On Saturday, I took Ian with me and drove up to Salt Lake City to help my sister with her move. The rent went up so my sister wasn't able to afford living there. She found a two bedrooms apartment and got a roommate. So we all painted the wall of her old apartment that had green paint on, shampooed the carpet and helped with some there and there. I left at noon and came back home to do some chores. At 4:30 p.m., Clint and I took kids to fun carnival and Winger's. Suzy loved ferris wheel the best. We all shared two chairs and were able to go up very high. It was always wonderful every time! Then in the evening, Clint had work he had to do so he went over his work and worked there for three hours. There was a project that had bug in it and he had to get it done before the people in Saudi Arabia get up and start working at their computer. Clint explained to me that people over in Saudi Arabia's weekend is on Friday and Saturday. Their Sabbath is on Saturday. Isn't it so interesting?!

Well, swimming lessons were over by last week. I'm so glad we can sleep in those days. I will have to do visit teaching before this month is up. My companion is making appointments for tomorrow. I better go . . There's projects lying in wait for me to do.

Love you all!