"Mom: We raise champions!" (long post, but worth it)
Friday, June 29th
One of the caveats for the trip is that I had to work remotely for 1 day each of the weeks. So I got up early and started working at 6 AM. So I worked until we checked out at 11.30 AM, and then we ran and did 1 errand, and grabbed some lunch. Then I dropped the kids off at a city aquatic center, kicked on the generator, and then finished out my day working.
Another pretty awesome miracle happened while I was in the RV working. I asked McKay to guest blog this. At first, I thought he was being way too verbose in his writing, but after reading it, even though it is long, this is **totally** worth reading.
I turn it over to McKay now:
It was a hot day in Kirtland Ohio, the family was poised to have a fun day at the pool while dad had to remotely work in the RV for a couple hours. We began by quickly exploring the vastly populated pool. With little observations we found a kids area of the pool, a high dive, diving board, and even a water slide. Immediately Matthew and Gracie went to the big twisty blue water slide. They anxiously waited in the short line for their turn. McKay stayed in the main pool and watched them. After they had gone through the water slide both Matthew and Gracie exclaimed how fun the slide was than ran off to the high dive. The first time Matthew went off the high dive he did a front flip. The lifeguard quickly got up and reprimanded Matt for doing a flip and it became apparent that flipping wasn’t allowed off the high dive. Slightly disappointed Matt kept jumping off the high dive and landing in the water. Nothing fancy. Gracie did likewise.
After watching the older kids jump for a few minutes McKay went over to the kids section to see what Nate, his mom, and Abby were doing. As soon as he got there Abby saw him and got out of the kid pool and told McKay it was his turn to watch Nate. He looked at his mom and she nodded in accordance. McKay didn’t view this as a babysitting gig, he saw it as an opportunity to play with Nate as opposed to just watching him. The first thing they did was play tag which soon led to wrestling. After a few minutes of that they began playing in the water features the kid pool offered. Soon enough they had their fill of that. McKay suggested to Nate that they play hide and seek. With not a lot of places to hide Nate immediately agreed to play. Nate began by hiding making McKay count to 100. McKay agreed and went looking for Nate. A few short minutes later Nate was found. It was now McKay’s turn to hide from Nate. He told Nate to only count to 20. McKay quickly found a clever hiding spot and Nate soon began searching for McKay but to no avail. After a few minutes of Nate looking for his older brother he was stumped. McKay soon came out of hiding when Nate wasn’t looking and appeared right behind Nate when he turned around. When Nate asked where McKay was hiding McKay, being quick-witted told Nate he turned invisible. Nate in disbelief asked where he was hiding. McKay then assured him that he actually did turn invisible. He told Nate they should play another round of hide and go seek. The same results from the prior round were replicated
One can only have so much fun a kid pool. The kids mom told McKay to bring Nate to the big pool. Not too excited to go himself McKay brought Nate. They walked over to the water slide to see if Nate was tall enough. Sadly he was 4 or 5 inches too short. Not too badly disappointed Nate accepted the terms. How ever McKay did not. He was bound and determined to get Nate on this water slide. McKay told Nate to stay in line but his mom didn’t like that idea. Still determined McKay brought Nate to the top of the slide. McKay had been rehearsing with Nate how to stand on his tippy toes when the lifeguard checked. Before Nate even had a chance of cheating the system Matthew went up to the lifeguard and told him Nate was too short but still asked if it was ok for Nate to go down the slide. Shaking his head the lifeguard did his job and did not comply. McKay was disappointed at Matt for talking to the lifeguard. McKay quickly explained the rules to Matt about sneaking into places. It was a great learning experience for Matt.
After the kids had climbed down the stairs with Nate back to Karson they could tell she was deeply relieved that they didn’t send a 5 year old down a 3 story tall slide. McKay was still bound and determined to get Nate down the water slide. After a few minutes of thinking McKay tried again. He alone brought Nate up hopping the lifeguard wouldn’t notice him being shy a few inches of the required height. Sadly as soon as we got to the top of the slide the guard asked to measure Nate. He complied. Yet again knowing that he wouldn’t meet the required height McKay got disappointed. The lifeguard kept talking to Nate and McKay began to listen in on the conversation. The lifeguard said, “If you go down by the front they will put you through a swimming test, if you pass the test they will give you a white wrist band and you will be able to do the water slide no matter how short you are.” McKay was elated! He knew that Nate was a good swimmer and he would have no problem passing this test. McKay, still ecstatic ran down the stairs with Nate and told Karson the situation. Karson had been paying a fair price for Nate swim lessons back at home in Arizona so she also wanted to invest in seeing Nate take this test.
Nate, McKay, Mom, and Gracie walked to the front of the aquatic center. McKay explained the situation to a kind lifeguard and he agreed to give Nate the test. He began to explain the test, in his gentle voice he explained, “You will have to swim one length of the Olympic pool without touching the sides or the bottom of the pool.” McKay took a sigh of stress for Nate. McKay knew this would be a daunting task for any other 5 year old, but not Nate. McKay looked at his mom seeing that she also was thinking that this would be a monumental challenge for a 5 year old. McKay said to his mom, “Mom, we raise champions! He’s got this!” Nate eager to take this test so he could go down the slide agreed to the challenge. Nate hopped into the end of a swimming lane. The kind lifeguard took his life saving device and stretched it out towards Nate just in case he needed it. But if he grabbed the flotation device then the test would be null and void. And just like that Nate was off. He began swimming and you could tell he had been taught proper form and how to breath. It was amazing to watch. As McKay and Mom watched Nate travel down the lane they began cheering. The lifeguard silently began grinning probably thinking this family was crazy. As Nate traveled further down the pool so did the family. They began cheering even louder and giving him words of encouragement.
Nate was about 3/4 of the way down the lane and they could tell he was getting tired. Nate, exhausted still tried his hardest not to let his fans down that had cheered for him so hard kept pushing. He was about 8 feet from the end and he grabbed the rail. McKay looked at the lifeguard hoping that the cheering from the family would make up for the 8 feet missed by Nate would help pass him anyways. The lifeguard didn’t budge. McKay couldn’t be too mad - he was just doing his job. McKay, slightly disappointed but still proud of Nate, pulled Nate out of the water and gave him a hug congratulating him on the distance he traveled. Nate was exhausted, breathing hard, and slightly disappointed in himself that he didn’t achieve the goal. His mom was proud of how far he went. After we sat down on the benches the lifeguard came up to the family and told them that after Nate took a rest he would be more than happy to offer the test again. McKay said yes for Nate. He really wanted him to succeed and so did Karson. Right after Nate got out of the pool there was a little girl that took the same test Nate did and she failed at the same point Nate did. They were so close it hurt the people watching.
Karson being dedicated to bringing him to swim lessons, reminded Nate him of the swim instructors teaching him to flip on his back when he got tired. Nate recalled what his mother was talking about. Gracie then demonstrated the movement in the nearby water. After of few minutes of encouraging Nate and letting him recover McKay brought him to the same lifeguard again explaining that Nate was ready to take the test again. The nice lifeguard agreed. He explained the same rules again and Nate hopped into the water. The lifeguard said, “Go!” and just like a flash of white lightning, Nate was off!
Starting faster than before his fan club started cheering louder than before. Nate got half way across the pool and the family could tell he exerted himself too much in the beginning. They could tell Nate needed to tap out. For just a second Nate popped his head up exhausted, and explained, “I’m tired!” Accepting defeat McKay reached his hand out to pool Nate out of the water.
Right then Nate flipped onto his back and a new life emerged in his tiny little body! He began back stroking and kicking as hard as his little legs would let him. His family erupted in a deafening cheer!! Nate would flip back and forth onto his stomach to his back 3 times until he completed what seemed to be a mountain of a challenge. Ecstatic, McKay reached into the water and pulled Nate out and gave him a hug only a proud brother could give!
Nate was breathing like he just ran from bigfoot in the forest. “You are a champion!” his mother exclaimed over and over again. The lifeguard congratulated Nate and told him and McKay to follow him to the front to get the beloved white wrist band. The coveted white wrist band was Nate's ticket to get onto the waterslide. They wrote down Nate's name in a book and he will forever be in the history books in Ohio, just like LeBron. McKay, Gracie and his mom were still celebrating Nate's accomplishment.
Proudly, Nate, McKay, and Gracie marched to the bigger and bluer than ever water slide. Nate was so excited to go down the slide. Gracie would go down first and wait for Nate down at the bottom of the slide. When Nate and got to the top of the slide McKay made Nate show the lifeguard the his wrist band that he had worked so hard for. Before he went down the slide McKay made Nate go to the 3 story high railing and raise his white wrist band of champions for all to see, especially his mom. Because without her there is no Nate.
McKay and Nate and Gracie repeated this cycle 4 or 5 times. Nate was reaping his reward and we did not want to stop him. McKay has been really into seeing things full circle, and he noticed that the same lifeguard that administered Nate the test was now the lifeguard responsible for ensuring his safety at the bottom. Nate continued to go down the slide over and over again. Eventually his mom noticed that the little girl that failed the test was now going down the slide also, meaning that she as well passed the ominous swimming test in order to go down the slide. The family would continue to praise Nate throughout the course of the day. Nate learned a lot of valuable lessons this day. One of the most important lessons that he learned was that his family loves him and will always support him. [And that we raise champions!]
Back to Spencer: So after they came back to the RV, I wrapped up what I was working on, and signed off for the day. Then I listened as the told the tale of bravery! I loved and hugged on Nate. Such a great story!
We headed off and hit the road. Nauvoo or bust! We drove and were heading thru Cleveland, and McKay was begging me to go to see the huge LeBron James poster that is like 10-stories tall in downtown Cleveland. We were on the freeway, and I wasn't really wanting to take a 30' RV thru downtown Cleveland. But he has been so patient about the trip and has asked so little. So .... I wasn't sure if I was being a good dad, or totally insane, but I agreed. We looked it up and turned off the freeway.
We ventured down into the downtown. GPS didn't take us to the right place the first time, so we quickly looked it up again and ventured further into downtown Cleveland. Meanwhile, I am just shaking my head and wondering what in the heck I was doing.
We thought we were about a mile away and suddenly Karson screams and hits her window (she was in the passengers seat). It was right there! I quickly slammed on the brakes, pulled over, and Karson, McKay, Abby, and Grace all piled out the side door. I then tried to pull "around the block" and had the most stressful 15 minutes of my life trying to get back to them. After breaking nothing short of 10 traffic laws with a 30' RV in down-downtown Cleveland, I finally pulled back up to the same curb. But I had 1 had happy 18 year old. (Little did we know that it would come down less than 48 hours later when LeBron got traded to LA).
Once we were back on the road, we traveled until we hit a Red Robin in the Toledo, OH area for dinner, where we all amply stuffed our faces and ordered about everything on the menu. We were waited on one of the best waiters we have ever had! We then loaded back up, and took off. A sunset I captured:
We made it to somewhere Ohio side of Chicago, and pulled into a truck stop. Even though the generator is $3.50 an hour, the area is having a heat wave, and there was no way we were sleeping without the A/C. So we ran the A/C from 10.30 PM to 5.30 AM the next morning. I got up and wrote the previous blog post, and then we got back on the road again. Our route for Friday and Saturday:
Saturday, June 30
We drove thru a lot of cornfields. Miles, and miles, and miles of cornfields.
Our reservation to check in wasn't until 3 at the Nauvoo State Park (but in hindsight, the park in Nauvoo has tons of space if you need to wait for someone, and chances are that the person has left before then). So before we went to Nauvoo, we headed across the river to a little laundromat in Fort Madison, IA. We did laundry while we grabbed some lunch in Fort Madison. Then we headed across the river to Nauvoo.
We drove a little thru Nauvoo, and pulled into the state park. The State Park is **beautiful**. We found our spot (site #30 is **the bomb**) and parked and got out.
Holy Hot!!! It topped out at 94 degrees and almost 80% humidity. Yuck!!! I immediately started panicking. The week was going to be miserable. We kept trying to make the best of the situation, but every time we were outside of the RV (the air conditioning) we were **miserable**! How were we going to have our great week like this?!?!?
I was silently panicking. Will my favorite place become the place my wife has a nervous breakdown because it is so hot we are all stuck in a 30' RV for a week? Will my kids mutiny and tie me up and drive the RV out of this place cursing it all the while? Even Lilly was freaking out from the heat:
I rounded the kids up and we drove over and parked the RV in front of the temple (with the generator running and the AC cranking of course) and I got to tell the kids about how Nauvoo came to be. I connected the dots geographically to how the Saints got to Nauvoo and what the temple in front of us meant. I told them about the 2 times I had come here before and there was just a cornerstone. And I told them about the amazing time that we would have in this place. We didn't even get a picture, because no one wanted to step outside the RV (and we all looked like yuck from traveling for 2 days).
We then went back and showered and got ready to settle down for the night. I had the generator running so that we could run both ACs. We showered, and was just as wet after drying off as we were in the shower.
And then we had a little miracle: lightning bugs. The kids were enthralled! They ran around chasing the bugs and the Spirit whispered a little to me that the week was going to be okay. The kids loved them, Karson was excited about them, and for a few minutes we were able to forget about the suffocating heat.
After pulling the RV into place and bedding the kids down, then I started changing up the plans for the week a little. I was not sure my original plan was going to work with the crazy humidity and heat. And the plans came together, and I went to sleep feeling a little bit better about the week.
Sunday, July 1
Today we had 2 choices for church times: 9.30 AM or 1.30 PM. I was going to play it by ear and see if the kids were up early. If not, then I wouldn't rush them and we would hit the 1.30 PM ward. It was supposed to rain and with the rain, we were hoping that
Karson and I slept until after 8, and then visited about the changes to the week. The kids didn't get up until after 9, so we just let them lounge around and eat breakfast slowly. Then the boys and I wandered down to the lake and looked around. It was warm and sticky, but not crazy hot.
And then at about 10 AM, the cloud cover came, and an occasional cool-ish breeze came in. It was supposed to rain, but it never did. And it kept it just manageable that if you laid in the hammocks or sat at the table in the shade, you could stay mostly not crazy dripping sweat.
We played all morning in the beautiful park. We enjoyed how pretty it was, and talked about the week. We got ready, and headed to church. Frankly, the fast and testimony meeting was really strange. Abby texted me half way thru and said "We are part of a cult." Typical Abby, but it **was** a really strange sacrament meeting. One guy even said in the middle of his testimony, "I have written a song and I am going to sing it for you now." And then he proceeded to sing his strange song.
Normally I am a stickler for all 3 hours of Church, but I wasn't going to fight that battle today. We ran over to the temple and grabbed some pictures and talked about the temple a little.
Then we took the RV down to the Visitor's Center and changed our clothes. We then went thru the Visitor's Center and visited with the missionaries, watched a short video on Nauvoo, and then got a map and started to plan out our week.
We then came back and enjoyed the weather. Humidity was high, but it only got up to approx 82 and so we were able to tolerate being outside. We were able to duck inside the RV was time to time and cool off, and I think we were adjusting a bit. Karson soundly beat all of us at the new corn-hole game that McKay got me for Father's day. Now with the darkness coming, the kids are out chasing fireflies again.
One of the caveats for the trip is that I had to work remotely for 1 day each of the weeks. So I got up early and started working at 6 AM. So I worked until we checked out at 11.30 AM, and then we ran and did 1 errand, and grabbed some lunch. Then I dropped the kids off at a city aquatic center, kicked on the generator, and then finished out my day working.
Another pretty awesome miracle happened while I was in the RV working. I asked McKay to guest blog this. At first, I thought he was being way too verbose in his writing, but after reading it, even though it is long, this is **totally** worth reading.
I turn it over to McKay now:
It was a hot day in Kirtland Ohio, the family was poised to have a fun day at the pool while dad had to remotely work in the RV for a couple hours. We began by quickly exploring the vastly populated pool. With little observations we found a kids area of the pool, a high dive, diving board, and even a water slide. Immediately Matthew and Gracie went to the big twisty blue water slide. They anxiously waited in the short line for their turn. McKay stayed in the main pool and watched them. After they had gone through the water slide both Matthew and Gracie exclaimed how fun the slide was than ran off to the high dive. The first time Matthew went off the high dive he did a front flip. The lifeguard quickly got up and reprimanded Matt for doing a flip and it became apparent that flipping wasn’t allowed off the high dive. Slightly disappointed Matt kept jumping off the high dive and landing in the water. Nothing fancy. Gracie did likewise.
After watching the older kids jump for a few minutes McKay went over to the kids section to see what Nate, his mom, and Abby were doing. As soon as he got there Abby saw him and got out of the kid pool and told McKay it was his turn to watch Nate. He looked at his mom and she nodded in accordance. McKay didn’t view this as a babysitting gig, he saw it as an opportunity to play with Nate as opposed to just watching him. The first thing they did was play tag which soon led to wrestling. After a few minutes of that they began playing in the water features the kid pool offered. Soon enough they had their fill of that. McKay suggested to Nate that they play hide and seek. With not a lot of places to hide Nate immediately agreed to play. Nate began by hiding making McKay count to 100. McKay agreed and went looking for Nate. A few short minutes later Nate was found. It was now McKay’s turn to hide from Nate. He told Nate to only count to 20. McKay quickly found a clever hiding spot and Nate soon began searching for McKay but to no avail. After a few minutes of Nate looking for his older brother he was stumped. McKay soon came out of hiding when Nate wasn’t looking and appeared right behind Nate when he turned around. When Nate asked where McKay was hiding McKay, being quick-witted told Nate he turned invisible. Nate in disbelief asked where he was hiding. McKay then assured him that he actually did turn invisible. He told Nate they should play another round of hide and go seek. The same results from the prior round were replicated
One can only have so much fun a kid pool. The kids mom told McKay to bring Nate to the big pool. Not too excited to go himself McKay brought Nate. They walked over to the water slide to see if Nate was tall enough. Sadly he was 4 or 5 inches too short. Not too badly disappointed Nate accepted the terms. How ever McKay did not. He was bound and determined to get Nate on this water slide. McKay told Nate to stay in line but his mom didn’t like that idea. Still determined McKay brought Nate to the top of the slide. McKay had been rehearsing with Nate how to stand on his tippy toes when the lifeguard checked. Before Nate even had a chance of cheating the system Matthew went up to the lifeguard and told him Nate was too short but still asked if it was ok for Nate to go down the slide. Shaking his head the lifeguard did his job and did not comply. McKay was disappointed at Matt for talking to the lifeguard. McKay quickly explained the rules to Matt about sneaking into places. It was a great learning experience for Matt.
After the kids had climbed down the stairs with Nate back to Karson they could tell she was deeply relieved that they didn’t send a 5 year old down a 3 story tall slide. McKay was still bound and determined to get Nate down the water slide. After a few minutes of thinking McKay tried again. He alone brought Nate up hopping the lifeguard wouldn’t notice him being shy a few inches of the required height. Sadly as soon as we got to the top of the slide the guard asked to measure Nate. He complied. Yet again knowing that he wouldn’t meet the required height McKay got disappointed. The lifeguard kept talking to Nate and McKay began to listen in on the conversation. The lifeguard said, “If you go down by the front they will put you through a swimming test, if you pass the test they will give you a white wrist band and you will be able to do the water slide no matter how short you are.” McKay was elated! He knew that Nate was a good swimmer and he would have no problem passing this test. McKay, still ecstatic ran down the stairs with Nate and told Karson the situation. Karson had been paying a fair price for Nate swim lessons back at home in Arizona so she also wanted to invest in seeing Nate take this test.
Nate, McKay, Mom, and Gracie walked to the front of the aquatic center. McKay explained the situation to a kind lifeguard and he agreed to give Nate the test. He began to explain the test, in his gentle voice he explained, “You will have to swim one length of the Olympic pool without touching the sides or the bottom of the pool.” McKay took a sigh of stress for Nate. McKay knew this would be a daunting task for any other 5 year old, but not Nate. McKay looked at his mom seeing that she also was thinking that this would be a monumental challenge for a 5 year old. McKay said to his mom, “Mom, we raise champions! He’s got this!” Nate eager to take this test so he could go down the slide agreed to the challenge. Nate hopped into the end of a swimming lane. The kind lifeguard took his life saving device and stretched it out towards Nate just in case he needed it. But if he grabbed the flotation device then the test would be null and void. And just like that Nate was off. He began swimming and you could tell he had been taught proper form and how to breath. It was amazing to watch. As McKay and Mom watched Nate travel down the lane they began cheering. The lifeguard silently began grinning probably thinking this family was crazy. As Nate traveled further down the pool so did the family. They began cheering even louder and giving him words of encouragement.
Nate was about 3/4 of the way down the lane and they could tell he was getting tired. Nate, exhausted still tried his hardest not to let his fans down that had cheered for him so hard kept pushing. He was about 8 feet from the end and he grabbed the rail. McKay looked at the lifeguard hoping that the cheering from the family would make up for the 8 feet missed by Nate would help pass him anyways. The lifeguard didn’t budge. McKay couldn’t be too mad - he was just doing his job. McKay, slightly disappointed but still proud of Nate, pulled Nate out of the water and gave him a hug congratulating him on the distance he traveled. Nate was exhausted, breathing hard, and slightly disappointed in himself that he didn’t achieve the goal. His mom was proud of how far he went. After we sat down on the benches the lifeguard came up to the family and told them that after Nate took a rest he would be more than happy to offer the test again. McKay said yes for Nate. He really wanted him to succeed and so did Karson. Right after Nate got out of the pool there was a little girl that took the same test Nate did and she failed at the same point Nate did. They were so close it hurt the people watching.
Karson being dedicated to bringing him to swim lessons, reminded Nate him of the swim instructors teaching him to flip on his back when he got tired. Nate recalled what his mother was talking about. Gracie then demonstrated the movement in the nearby water. After of few minutes of encouraging Nate and letting him recover McKay brought him to the same lifeguard again explaining that Nate was ready to take the test again. The nice lifeguard agreed. He explained the same rules again and Nate hopped into the water. The lifeguard said, “Go!” and just like a flash of white lightning, Nate was off!
Starting faster than before his fan club started cheering louder than before. Nate got half way across the pool and the family could tell he exerted himself too much in the beginning. They could tell Nate needed to tap out. For just a second Nate popped his head up exhausted, and explained, “I’m tired!” Accepting defeat McKay reached his hand out to pool Nate out of the water.
Right then Nate flipped onto his back and a new life emerged in his tiny little body! He began back stroking and kicking as hard as his little legs would let him. His family erupted in a deafening cheer!! Nate would flip back and forth onto his stomach to his back 3 times until he completed what seemed to be a mountain of a challenge. Ecstatic, McKay reached into the water and pulled Nate out and gave him a hug only a proud brother could give!
Proudly, Nate, McKay, and Gracie marched to the bigger and bluer than ever water slide. Nate was so excited to go down the slide. Gracie would go down first and wait for Nate down at the bottom of the slide. When Nate and got to the top of the slide McKay made Nate show the lifeguard the his wrist band that he had worked so hard for. Before he went down the slide McKay made Nate go to the 3 story high railing and raise his white wrist band of champions for all to see, especially his mom. Because without her there is no Nate.
Back to Spencer: So after they came back to the RV, I wrapped up what I was working on, and signed off for the day. Then I listened as the told the tale of bravery! I loved and hugged on Nate. Such a great story!
We headed off and hit the road. Nauvoo or bust! We drove and were heading thru Cleveland, and McKay was begging me to go to see the huge LeBron James poster that is like 10-stories tall in downtown Cleveland. We were on the freeway, and I wasn't really wanting to take a 30' RV thru downtown Cleveland. But he has been so patient about the trip and has asked so little. So .... I wasn't sure if I was being a good dad, or totally insane, but I agreed. We looked it up and turned off the freeway.
We ventured down into the downtown. GPS didn't take us to the right place the first time, so we quickly looked it up again and ventured further into downtown Cleveland. Meanwhile, I am just shaking my head and wondering what in the heck I was doing.
We thought we were about a mile away and suddenly Karson screams and hits her window (she was in the passengers seat). It was right there! I quickly slammed on the brakes, pulled over, and Karson, McKay, Abby, and Grace all piled out the side door. I then tried to pull "around the block" and had the most stressful 15 minutes of my life trying to get back to them. After breaking nothing short of 10 traffic laws with a 30' RV in down-downtown Cleveland, I finally pulled back up to the same curb. But I had 1 had happy 18 year old. (Little did we know that it would come down less than 48 hours later when LeBron got traded to LA).
Once we were back on the road, we traveled until we hit a Red Robin in the Toledo, OH area for dinner, where we all amply stuffed our faces and ordered about everything on the menu. We were waited on one of the best waiters we have ever had! We then loaded back up, and took off. A sunset I captured:
Saturday, June 30
We drove thru a lot of cornfields. Miles, and miles, and miles of cornfields.
Holy Hot!!! It topped out at 94 degrees and almost 80% humidity. Yuck!!! I immediately started panicking. The week was going to be miserable. We kept trying to make the best of the situation, but every time we were outside of the RV (the air conditioning) we were **miserable**! How were we going to have our great week like this?!?!?
We then went back and showered and got ready to settle down for the night. I had the generator running so that we could run both ACs. We showered, and was just as wet after drying off as we were in the shower.
And then we had a little miracle: lightning bugs. The kids were enthralled! They ran around chasing the bugs and the Spirit whispered a little to me that the week was going to be okay. The kids loved them, Karson was excited about them, and for a few minutes we were able to forget about the suffocating heat.
Sunday, July 1
Today we had 2 choices for church times: 9.30 AM or 1.30 PM. I was going to play it by ear and see if the kids were up early. If not, then I wouldn't rush them and we would hit the 1.30 PM ward. It was supposed to rain and with the rain, we were hoping that
Karson and I slept until after 8, and then visited about the changes to the week. The kids didn't get up until after 9, so we just let them lounge around and eat breakfast slowly. Then the boys and I wandered down to the lake and looked around. It was warm and sticky, but not crazy hot.
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