A Plastow Perspective: Running & Camping

This month has been crammed full of stuff! I swear I don't know when we will get around to the yard, since we usually plant the garden the first weekend of May and that's coming soon.

Dave's in the green shirt & red shorts

Dave ran in a half marathon last weekend! He injured his leg the week of, so all things considering he did a great job. He finished just under two hours. The boys had a fun time cheering him on, and were fascinated to find out the race had free face painting and balloon animals after. There was also guest appearances by Spiderman, Captain America, a Jedi, Elsa & Anna. They had this because there was a kids race at 11. Logan decided he wouldn't mind racing next year. We'll see if he feels the same then, and we can sign him up. It's only like $5 to run, and he gets a shirt too, so not too pricy.

I picked up some sew from home work this week. I initially thought it was going to be a one time thing, but it sounds like the lady is looking for help until July or August, so I've told her I'll do a few hours a day. It will be nice to have some extra money coming in, even if I don't have a plan for it right now (I'm thinking a family trip to the beach, or remodel the basement bathroom... or just pay off baby #3's medical bills... we'll see). I'm making bags for tent polls and end up making around $15 and $20 an hour, depending on how fast I sew because I'm paid by the piece.

This weekend we took a long weekend and headed down to St George area to camp, hike, and visit with my Mom's side of the family. 9 out of the 10 siblings were there, some of their spouses, and my Grandparents were all there. Many of my cousins weren't able to make it, but with a smaller group, we got to visit more with everyone that was there which was so nice.

The boys had so much fun hiking and were very proud of themselves for hiking to the top of several mountains, into caves, lava tubes, and to Moqui Marble Heaven (as they and their cousin's named the top of one particular hike).

Mike and Alison were there Friday and most of Saturday. The boys had so much fun playing and hiking with their cousins! We were sad to see them go home early.

They collected TONS of rocks! As I keep unpacking more bags, I find more and more. Every tupperware container that was empty was filled when I opened them. Which is quite impressive since they had to unzip the bag they were in, fill them, put the lids on the tupperware, and zip the bag back up.

Friday night we had some kind of freak wind storm that blew ours and about 4 other tents over. Our center metal tent poll snapped in half so we were up at 2 am trying to fix it so we could get some sleep. We didn't get a lot of sleep that night. Fortunately we just bought our tent at REI and they have a 1 year return policy. So after one camping trip, it will be headed back to the store. Sigh! I really liked that tent.

Saturday night as we were sitting around the fire, Logan requested going to bed "I'm exhausted! Can we go to sleep now?" What parent is going to say no to that? As we were getting ready for bed, Logan kept insisting we pray for no wind and we all got a killer night of sleep. In the morning Logan woke up, popped his head out of his sleeping bag (we were all sleeping with our heads in our bags to protect ourselves from the wind blowing sand in our faces), and exclaimed "God answered my prayers! There was no wind and I slept all night!" What a cute little guy :)