We wished we had been able to camp along side our family this weekend, but we made do with a good Saturday together. It wasn’t on purpose, but we did straddle Amber’s and Kyla’s birthdays, so molten lava cakes (thanks to Grandma’s oven) were on the menu.
I also got a glorious bike ride in with Brian, and Grandma got her first henna tattoo, courtesy of artist-extraordinaire, Piper. Amber got to open gifts, Taryn got Grandma snuggles, and we all got family love time.
It had been a day. Over the week, I had prepped and packed Yeti so we could head down to Oregon reasonably early on Friday to meet my parents and one of my brother’s family for a weekend of camping. We made it only a few minutes before we realize that something was terribly wrong with Yeti. When we limped home, I had to 1) unpack, 2) find last-minute non-camping accommodations close to the campground, 3) figure out what to do with the bewilderingly broken RV, and 4) pack us back up in the minivan and get us on the road ASAP.
Luckily, Wes was there to heal my heart. The smooth concrete driveway has been this trickster’s friend, and he was thrilled to find out how well wheeled suitcases traveled on its surface. Funnier, completely not appropriate story, is how surprised he was when our suitcases got switched (they are identical bags in international size for our non-voyage world trip) and his started vibrating in the oddest way. Oops, I put the wrong toy in his bag, thinking it was mine. He asked a few times what that was, but I just had to keep answering that he really, really didn’t want to know. I’m still laughing.
My summer goal, besides reading my brains out, was for Wes and me to build and install a little free library (LFL) at the cabin. It turned out my dad did all the hard work, Dwayne was necessary to put the thing together, I did the design and decor, and Wes…did nothing. But I was very happy to install it and make it official– Charter #130680 can be found on the LFL map.
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