May Long Weekend

Our May long weekend started a little earlier than usual!  We were able to reserve a camp site at Little Bow Park from Thursday to Monday.  So Thursday after Jared and I were finished work we headed home and packed our clothes, food and sleeping bags and we headed down to the park!!  Our campsite was perfect, nice and big with a couple of big climbing trees, a fire pit and a picnic table!!  We have NEVER gone camping on May long weekend or ever had the desire to go, the weather is always miserable and its not even summer yet!! But since we bought our new camper we were itching to try it out!  And if the weather turned miserable as it usually does we could always cuddle up inside a nice warm trailer with a working furnace!!!!  Or we could pack up and head home!!!  As is uncommon for us our regular bad luck did not follow us this particular weekend...the weather was gorgeous, everyday was nicer than the one before, the perfect temperature made for a perfect camping trip.

 






Friday morning Jared woke up early to head home to check cows before heading to work for the day.  The kids and I just hung out at the campsite, we went to the beach where they all built sand castles and the boys went in the water.  It was so cold, Emry braved it up to her knees and then came back to sit on the warm sand.  We had hot dogs and smores over the fire that night and went to bed way too late.

Saturday we were treated to pancakes and sausage by Jared and then headed into Claresholm to look at a truck, we were just looking and getting a feel for how much it would cost to get into a truck...it turns out that it would cost too much to get everything we would want!  So, back to the campsite we went and headed straight for the beach, another gorgeous day for building sand castles and swimming!!  Myrna, my mom and Mark joined us for delicious hamburgers flame broiled over the fire!!  We hung out and visited while the kids rode bikes and played with new found friends.

Sunday we got up early and headed home where we showered and got ready to go to church!  It turned out that our neighbors at the campsite were also members and were at church too!!  Later that afternoon they came over to our site and visited for awhile, and then that evening they invited us over to their site to teach us a new card game!  It was lots of fun getting to know them.  Funny how small our world can become when we let people into our lives!!!  Myrna came back to the park and had fire broiled steak and baked potatoes with us.  Sooooo yummy!!!  By this day, Calum mastered riding a bike so we hardly saw him and Armin had made a friend so we hardly saw him too!!

Sadly, Monday was our last day.  We didn't get up too early or really start packing up until noon.  We just enjoyed the beautiful weather.  We didn't have to go inside the trailer much. Calum hung out a little bit in there to either play with his action figures or to play on his DS.  It was nice to crawl into when we wanted a quick little afternoon nap, but we played cards around the fire, cooked on the fire or the stove we brought, and just enjoyed being together.  Armin too, by our last day mastered riding a bike.  I was so proud of our boys and how quickly they caught on!!




It was a great May long weekend, with many new memories made.  Thankfully our new to us camper did not blow over in the wicked wind we had yesterday, so we will get much use out of it this summer and for many more to come!!!