Week 1 Day 1 - Friday, May 15th

Written - May 16th

Well Day #2 of moving is here. I'm really excited for it actually! Yesterday we were up at 7:30am and moving! The night before DH and I loaded up the van with our 10x17 tent, some things for the gazebo and a few other random things, we also loaded up the trailer with a few things and hooked it all together that night. When we realized about 7:45am that we had NO clothes for the boys we knew we were going to have a fun morning!

We all piled into the van and went to breakfast at CJ's and then off to the campsite. DH talked to the lady at the front and asked if we could 'look around' first before we picked/were assigned a site. She said sure, gave DH a map, marked off what was taken already and told him to go have a look. We picked our site (75) and then had DH go up with the van to get registered. Before he left we got the Trailer level or sort of, and the boys and I were working on 'stealing' rocks from other campsites near us to make a circle around our campfire. All the sudden K goes, "Mom I have to poop!" So off we went on the first of MANY treks to the bathroom. It didn't take us that long (as we are further from the washrooms) but we got up there and K went into the mens washroom. A few moments later he came out and told me he had just peed. I asked if he had washed his hands yet and he goes "opps, nope!" runs back in and tries to wash his hands. I could hear him yelling so I asked if he was ok and he said he needed me to come in and help him. I explained that this was the boys washroom and mommies were not aloud. He insisted he needed help and since it was 9am I figured not alot of people would be in there so I called in to check. There was a campsite worker in there and he said to go right in so I went in, helped wash his hands and off we went back to the campsite.

We got down the stairs, all 19 of them, and the boys both spotted birds and off they went. Then DH came around the corner from getting things set up at the front and we jumped in the van and headed back to the campsite. We managed to get the trailer up and generally put together before long.

I'll post more but I just realized how 'late' it was this morning (already 7:20am) and we have to get back to the house for 8am! I have to go and wake up Nana and Papa and let them know they are on Grandparent duty soon.

Hopefully our thundershowers we had last night will be the end of it for today!

Mir

~~~~~~ continued later ~~~~~~

I'm all done, well generally all done.

con't about yesterday:

We got the trailer generally set up (ie beds out, leveled, electrical hook up, and the dresser up) and my parents came in. The kids were so excited to see them. We went to chat with them a bit more then Arnold and I started emptying out the van. We had the boys mattress and the 10 by 17 foot tent in there. IT worked out really well to just transport those things at first. We made sure things were set with my parents, they understood where we wanted everything and off we went!

Arnold and I headed off to the campsite to the house and started getting things moving. We packed up a few things and got ready to move some more around. We first made a storage unit run, then hit up the computer repair place so I could get my computer back and got some lunch. Afterwards we went home and got a load for the trailer. We went back and saw everything. I was so impressed. My dad had got the 10 by 17 up and it looked great! We moved a few things in there and then hung out while the boys napped. About 1 hour or so after we got there the boys woke up and we played around and did a few washroom runs/bikes. It was alot of fun!

Around 4:30 or so I asked Dad and Arnold to head back to the house and pick up a few things as the bugs were starting to bite and I didn't want to handle that. I dressed them in their pants, long sleeves and coats and socks. Arnold and Dad went and picked up some cooking things we needed, along with the gazebo(sp) and a few random things. When they got back we started setting up the gazebo and got it up before supper. Mom made crock pot chicken with some chicken stuffing, cheese, and cream of chicken soup. It was SOOO good. She also made some rice to go with it as well.

We headed up to the washrooms around 7:30, 8pm and got the boys faces, feet, legs, arms and hands washed up and clean'ish' as well as brushing their teeth. We walked back to the campsite and said goodnight to my parents and off we went. By the time we got the boys changed and in bed it was already 9pm! I couldn't believe how fast the day had gone.

DH and I stayed up a bit longer, checking e'mail and getting ready for the next day.

That night though... wow.... We had a HUGE thunderstorm around 5am and Kyler ended up waking up and needed to come and snuggle. So he came to see me and DH went and slept in their bed. Overall it went really well. The rain didn't seem to do much to the trailer if anything and everything said and done the placed looked great. Which was a great start to the going to be rainy day!

I'll post more tomorrow and put up some photos. For now my bed is calling my name... and yes I realize it's only 9:20pm