Buck Family Camping Trip!

Every summer Nathan's family plans a week long camping trip. That is a long time to camp if you ask me, but I did it. We left Monday (Aug. 4th) and stayed in Island Park until Saturday afternoon. It was a very interesting trip. The Sunday night before we left both McKenna and Logan had fevers, but we left Monday morning anyway. Kenna's fever seemed to have gone away but Logan still had one and it steadily got worse all day Monday as we were trying to set up camp. We decided to take Logan down to Community Care in Rexburg because he also had a rash on his leg (that is a whole different story) and the rash was looking really red and inflamed and it was hot to the touch. To make a long story short, Logan had Strep Throat. He got put on an antibiotic and so did Kenna because her fever came back Monday afternoon. Well, I guess two sick kids camping isn't enough, Monday night Emilee got a fever too! We called our doctor and got her put on an anitbiotic too. So for the first couple of days camping I had three sick kids!! By Wednesday everyone felt better and the rest of the camping trip went much smoother.

Isn't Isaac wearing an appropriate shirt? His favorite thing to do was play in the dirt. And there was plenty of it for him to play in!

Kenna, Emi, Isaac, Meliah, Lucas, Carter, Kelden, Riley, and Niyah

Mandy did a treasure hunt for the kids. She had them go to each of the adults in camp and the adults gave them something to do. I had them collect firewood, Rachael had them do silly things, Nathan let them shoot his paintball gun, Grandma had them sing, Grandpa had them do things linked together so they had to work together, Steve was just plain weird, and Mandy had them do yoga and then she gave them their prize. The kids thought it was fun.

Isaac and Daddy on the pontoon boat.

As soon as we got to the campground Isaac had to go potty. The trailer wasn't unpacked yet and I didn't want him walking down to the potty all by himself so I just told him to go pee on a tree. I don't think he peed in the toilet the whole time we were there. He would just wander to a random tree, drop his shorts, and pee. He didn't care who was watching. And I don't think he ever peed on the same tree twice!