And we got a flat tire...

Everyone who knows absolutely anything knows that we love camping. We even took Cooper out when he was 3 weeks old! Well, these last few times we haven't been able to get things right. Last weekend we went up to cedar mt. with the Callahans and it rained... pretty much a lot. We did have fun, thanks to aunt Yvonne taking care of us in the cabin, and our tent and sleepingbags kept us warm and dry... but the kids didn't have as much fun because any playing led to them being cold and wet. Sorry kids. Maybe next time.You can never really tell what this guy's thinking... he has perma-grumpy face, but every so often he breaks out a huge, uncontrollable smile (complete with chubby dimples).


We weathered the storm pretty good under our umbrella :)

Fast forward to this weekend when we went to North Timp Point (on the Grand Canyon) with the Syphus and this is the order of catastrophe:
-I get sick, but we pack up and leave anyway
-outside of Fredonia Cooper gets sick
-We stop in Kanab at the ER and for $100 they tell us he has the flu
(we probably should have just gone home at this point, but we had the breakfast for the next day so.... )
-we have to stop so many times to adjust and re-adjust the 3 kids crammed in our car that we don't get there till dark.
-In the morning we find our rear driver-side tire is completely flat. (though we did have a nice spare!)
-Leila fell on a log and scraped her beautiful lips and got them all bloody and swollen
-We had to cut out one whole day and night from our trip we've been waiting MONTHS for! Ugh! That's the worst!

Whatever. I think the camping gods must be mad at us for having too much fun on other camping trips, or as my mom says: "sounds like you're having a syphus camping trip!", since the dawn of time apparently Syphuses have been cursed with forgotten items and flat tires. We always seem to have fun though because none of us can wait to do it again!See how Logan is reaching out for little Marshall? So Cute!

The boys had a horseshoe tournement with a bag of double stuff's as the prize, that got Jesse in :)