The Worse Moment of My Life . . . and a Great Weekend

This weekend we had the worse moment of our life and then a really great weekend.

To start off with we went to Kamas on Friday. We went to the parade and the kids caught a ton of candy. It was pretty good. Then we hung out at Grandma and Grandpa's house and launched water balloons with our cousins.

We went to BullWars with Grandma and Grandpa. It was fun for the kids to get to go to a rodeo. It was pretty good. Here is a picture of the kids with Grandma and Grandpa.

Then we came back to Grandma's house and built a fire and had smore's. Then Jacob, Joshua, John and Grandma decided to sleep out under the stars. Abigial and Wyatt, Grandpa and I slept in the house. About 3:00 a.m. John comes in the house and wakes me up and tells me to come and see something. I walk out into the kitchen and Jacob is sitting there and his legs are all bloody. I ask "what happened?" I guess Jacob took off sleep walking and nobody woke up. He climbed over a barbed-wire fence and walked through the field with stickers and everything with no shoes on. He then climbed a chain link fence and by that point he had woke up and started crying. The lady in the house heard him and she called to him and asked if he needed help. He then told her he needed to find his Grandma's house. So she found out who his Grandma was and walked him back to the house. She rang the doorbell and no one heard it. So Jacob told her his Dad was in back of the house so they walked back there and she woke John up. He was pretty scared. Waking up in the middle of a field and not knowing where he was. His legs are all scratched from the barbed wire and he has huge blood blisters on his feet. He can hardly walk on them. He went into shock and threw-up and so it took a few minutes for him to warm up and calm down. I am so very glad that lady brought him back home. So many things could have happened. I will be forever grateful for her for being awake at that time of night and finding him and bringing him home safe. Here are some pics of John washing out the rocks from all of his scratches. It made him go into shock again. We had to lay him back down and now he is doing fin.



On Saturday we went to the Atkinson family reunion. It was really fun for Abigail because they all of Celiacs, so there was a lot of desserts she could eat. It was nice to talk with all the cousins again.

Grandma and Grandpa

Today we took a trip to Kamas to visit Grandma and Grandpa Atkinson. It started out snowing this morning, so we didn't know if we would go, but we chanced it and it was fine. We got to Grandma's ad she had made sugar cookies so the kids had a great time frosting cookies with Grandma.






Then after that they all settled on the couch with a story from Grandpa.



We had a great time today. We have great Grandparents. They are wonderful. Thanks grandma and grandpa for a great day.

Pioneer Weekend

We are so thankful for our Pioneers. The faith and courage that they had to walk across the plains,and settle here is wonderful. I am so thankful.

This weekend has been a crazy one! It all started Thursday night, my kids and John slept out on the trampoline. Then on Friday we woke up and went to Grandma Atkinson's house. We went to the Fiesta Days. They had a car show and booths to look at. Then we went back to Grandma's house for some slip-n-slide fun with some cousins.




After that we wend to the Kamas parade. Much different from the Riverton parade, but still a parade. It was fun. Then Jacob, Abigial and Dad went to the Rodeo with Grandma and Grandpa, while Wyatt, Joshua and I stayed at Grandma's house.

On Saturday was the kids parade. Abigial wanted to be in it. So here she is dressed as a pioneer ready to ride the float.



Here is one of her on the float.



Then we had an Atkinson reunion and met lots of cousins. Wyatt by this point was melting down, so we left and came back to Grandma's house. That night, John and the boys went to the Derby while Wyatt and Abigail and I stayed at Grandma's house. Needless to say, Wyatt and Abigial were so tired they were so naughty!! Grandpa was there and I think we gave him a few more grey hairs with all the cyring! Thanks Grandpa for keeping your cool. We then came home. We arrived home about 11:00 p.m.

Whew! The weekend is over. Now comes the cleanup . . .

St. George Trip

This weekend we went to St. George to visit Grandma and Grandpa Atkinson. They are in St. George for the winter working at the temple. We had a great time. Friday afternoon when we got there we went swimming in the hotel pool. It was just a little to cold for Wyatt and I to get into the pool, but everybody else enjoyed it.




Then we went to the St. George temple and visitor center. We watched the Pinoeer Miracle there. It was a powerful movie. My chidre enjoyed seeing the St. George temple.





The next day, Kim, Zack and Aleese joined us as Paul went to Las Vegas for the Nascaar races. We went up to Dixie rock and hiked around. My kids really like this. We didn't take a backpack for Wyatt so we were lifting him up and down all the rocks in the stroller. He had a blast.











Then we went back to the hotel for more swimming and dinner. We all retired that night early because we were pooped. Today we went to church with Grandma and Grandpa and came home.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for letting us invade you with our ruckus group. We love you and had a great weekend!