A Memorial Day weekend to forget

For the Memorial Day weekend, we went camping with our friends the Lewises. We went to Rainbow Falls which is near Chehalis. It poured all day Friday. The 2 daddies set up this great shelter to keep us dry (but not warm- it was like 10 feet away from the fire).

The shelter was great but a little too late. We were all soaked by the time it was up. Our camp ground turned into a giant mud pit and the kids were falling down constantly.

One set of muddy hands-

Two sets of muddy hands-

Four sets of muddy hands-

Rain water pooled up on the back side of the shelter. It didn't take the kids long to figure this out. As if they weren't wet enough! Taking a break from sloshing in the mud to eat dinner- Roasting marshmallows in the rain. You can see how wet the girls' pants are-

We woke up the next morning and it wasn't raining! Our campsite was still a giant mud pit but at least we were dry (well, maybe not dry but not as wet as the night before).

Helping out a friend-

These babies got very muddy. Sammi's even went for a swim in a puddle but the they kept the little girls entertained.

We walked to the "falls" on Saturday.

The kids played at the campground play toy on the walk back from the falls.

We headed home on Sunday. We pretty much woke up, ate breakfast, packed up and left. Here's Sammi playing hide and seek at Wendy's on our way home.

Some of the things to forget-

We didn't leave home until about noon on Friday even though Daddy told Josiah we would be leaving around 9:30. They got to the campground around 9 and had to wait in their truck until we got there. Right when we got there, the dogs got in a fight (exactly why we usually leave our dogs at home). Bailey was bit in the ear and bled a lot. Between the rain and mud (and without going into too many details, the bad chocolate milk the Lewis kids drank) we were running low on clothes by Friday night. The kids didn't seem to mind being wet but when Alexis started shivering and the mud was layers thick, we had no choice but to change them. Mommy woke on Saturday morning and her hair was still wet. Even though things were looking up on Saturday morning, things weren't great. The kids kept falling in the mud and Siah & Kaitlynn were still sick from the milk. Daddy invited a guy he knows (but never met face to face) to come hang out on Saturday. When the guy showed up Daddy thought he was some random guy walking around the campground and totally blew him off. That was embarrassing once he figured it all out! He chased the guy as he drove away and apologized but the guy wouldn't get out and stay- I wonder why!! Siah fell hands first into the fire. Thank God he was barley hurt- only a tiny scrape and a very small burn. It could have been so much worse. Even though it wasn't bad, it really scared everyone. It took both Mommies many, many days to clean up all our muddy clothes and muddy camp gear. No more blue tarp camping for us!

On Monday, Memorial Day, we went to Grandma & Papa Bob's house for a BBQ. We did what we love to do there...dress up in Ba's clothes and put on a show.