The Great Escape!

This past weekend my whole family went up to our cabin to escape this dreaded heat and enjoy the pines. I have to say that I found the forest so relaxing and enticing. I literally love to get lost in the scenery and enjoy a good book outside. Which is precisely what I did all weekend, that and eat.

Gavin loves the woods as well and always calls it camping anytime we go to the forest. Although we have never truly camped. Oddly enough it is my manly husband that refuses to sleep in a tent. Thank heavens we have a trailer otherwise we would never get to “go camping.” This weekend was filled with lots of little surprises. The first one was that my poor baby got stung by a bee. For those who know me I am dreadfully afraid of this one inch flying killer. Every time I see one I run and scream, I can’t help it I am just so terrified of being stung. Luckily I have been able to escape this irrational fear; unfortunately I can now say my son has not. The moment I heard him scream I thought that he was just wining, and then it occurred to me that he and Troy were shooting the gun outside that’s when the panic mom sunk in. I rushed to him with alligator tears streaming down his face. It had stung him through his clothes on the side of his chest. Wade found the bee and the stinger was still on, which is a good sign that sting wasn’t too bad. Gavin cried for a moment and then he was fine. I was shock to see how well he handled something I would have completely overreacted too. When I first saw the bee on the floor it wasn’t dead yet but dying and this is sad to admit but I desperately wanted to hurt the thing for stinging Gavin. I want to make the bee feel pain. As if dying isn't enough I wanted him to suffer. I am terribly weird and apologize if this come to a shock to anyone. I however did nothing but comfort my son.

The next exciting and ten times more serious situation we had was that concerning my brother in law Wade. He and Gavin we playing outside while I sat in the hammock close by. They were making some type of sling shot with a rope or something. Then they would sling sticks into the air. All of the sudden I heard a rather short “aaaa.” I looked over and Wade was on the ground. I didn’t think much of it at first because I thought he was playing dead for Gavin’s entertainment. Then I asked him if he was okay, no answer. I then managed to remove myself for that remarkably comfortable position I was in. I walked over and asked the same question with no response but a hand in the air. Then he got up and walked away. Gavin relayed the story to me and said the he was pulling it back and the stick went and stuck in his eye. (What an imagination) As Wade continued to walk off the pain my sister chased after him to make sure he was okay. Well to make a long story short, he wasn’t. He had torn off the first layer of his eye and sliced through the first three. His eye filled up with blood and pieces of stick were embedded into his eye. He went to the doctor where they had to “rise” it out. I wasn’t there for this part by was told it was painful. He now has to see the eye doctor here for a little while to see how his eye is healing and make sure there is no loss of sight. FYI he has a great eye doctor here! (Plug for Dr. Lambson)

It was a great trip with only a few set backs. I spent a good majority of the time reading and laying in the hammock. I love hanging out with my family and just laughing. I can’t wait until I go again. Which will be soon, and I am bound and determined to learn how to snowboard this winter. So that means more cabin trips YEA!!!!

4th of July At The Beach!!!!

So I guess I will jump on the bandwagon and make a post about the 4th of July. This year we took a trip to Newport Beach with the Patterson’s. We went to California last year with them all we wanted to do was stay longer. So this year we rented a beach house and stayed for a WEEK!! It was so nice to get away and being that I am a big fan of the beach/tanning it was a perfect place to go. We could see the beach from our porch and 20 steps would take you right to the sandy escape.

We arrived at the beach house late Saturday night and the very next morning, first thing we went to the beach. I have to explain a little something about my husband, this will come as a shock to most but he hates the beach. I know how can anyone hate the beach, well he does?! He doesn’t tan he burns and he hates getting sand everywhere and he thinks it is more relaxing to sit inside then in front of the ocean. Needless to say we got in a few disagreements over this but he was a trooper, most of the time. I on the other hand was elated to get some natural sun without melting and giving up like I do most of the time here in Arizona.

Most everyday was spent on the beach getting a tan. FYI I have an awesome tan although my sister thinks I am too dark. However I am now peeling excessively on my back and chest. I don’t mind as long as my arms and legs don’t peel. To my horror I learned yesterday that the back of me legs started to peel. I guess that is the result of not wearing any sun block and lathering my self in tanning oil. I did wear SPF 70 on my face because I am freak about getting my face too tan.

So to move on we went to the beach almost every day except on Thursday when the boys decided to meet Harold (Ed’s brother) down in San Diego and go deep sea fishing for the day. Much to my surprise they wanted to take the kids. Which of course meant a day of shopping for the girls; I must say I love it when that happens. The boys spent too much fishing and I thought I made out like a bandit shopping. It usually is the other way around so no hard feelings. Troy called me that night and told me he got two hundred dollar fish. In my mind I thought that the fish must be huge for a hundred dollars a pop. No they were tiny little fishes, so this was a big waste of money but the kids still enjoyed it.
That night after the fishing the boys took the kids to Belmont, much to Gavin’s disappointment he was the only kid not tall enough to ride the rides (you have to be 42 inches Gavin is 40 inches). He did however stand on his tip toes to get into the bumper cars and made it on because the guy measuring people failed to notice.

I also got the chance to spend time with Lynn, although it was only one day it was so much fun. Lynn and I spend most of our time laughing. It was so nice to get to spend some "girl only" time with her. We went to the beach with everyone and later that night went to dinner just the two of us. When she was driving me back to the house we thought we saw a UFO but it turned out to be a helicopter and we stopped right in the middle of the street, which displeased of the officer behind us. Luckily the cops are more concerned with the crazy drunks/hilarious drunks that flock to the beach on the 4th.

The whole time we where there we heard people talking about 20th and Court Ave for the parties. We were on the corner of 20th and Court, so we had some awesome shows for entertainment right out side our window. One show that happened was on Friday night around 3:30 am, when an electrical power wire fell in the middle of our street and caught the tip of on of the party house on fire and burned two HUGE holes in their roof. No one got hurt and the fireman came shortly after but, I woke up form that loud noise and the wasted people freaking out about the wire lying in the middle of the street. Let’s just say they said some pretty funny things.

Well to wrap up this long post it was a great trip and I can’t wait until we do it again next year!! I love the beach and so does Gavin so sorry Troy you are out numbered!