The Boys Camping Trip

Cameron had a camping trip with the Boy Scouts this weekend. He was a little nervous to go, because his daddy would not be there the first night. But he toughed it out and went. I half expected him to chicken out because of the weather. We had been having thunderstorms all week last week. Cam is terrified of thunder. Thursday night we had a tornado warning, Kevin said later that a tornado went through the south part of town. But still Cam went. I warned him it was going to be very cold and to make sure he had a lot of warm clothes, and an extra blanket or two. I don't think he believed me. The first night he did fine. Since his dad wasn't there yet he let a couple of his friends stay in his tent with him. I don't think it was too cold that night. Then Saturday it snowed! Not very much, but it sure made things cold. When Kevin left to join Cam, he took an extra coat for Cam. That night they put their air mattresses together and slept with both of their sleeping bags on top of them, and they were cold! But they made it through. They were glad when they got to come home and warm up. Not too long after they got home, Cameron went outside to play! I guess he wasn't too traumatized by the trip.

Kevin left this afternoon to head back to Kansas. He took the fixed truck and left me the broke van. That is my job for tomorrow.

Truck Update
The truck is fixed. I took it in this morning, the guy figured out what was wrong with it right away and got it fixed for us. But last weekend the van started acting up. So next week Kevin is going to take the truck and leave me with the van, so I can take it in to get fixed.

Omaha Zoo

As I said before, we spent last night at the Omaha Zoo. We got to sleep in the Jungle Pavilion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last night they took us on a 2-hour nighttime tour of the zoo. We were not allowed to take pictures during the night, so we would not disturb the animals during their "quiet time". After the walk we went back to our jungle and ate pizza and the kids watched a movie. At about midnight everybody tried to go to sleep. A lot of people said they didn't get much sleep, the animals and the kids kept them up. We had a very large group, I think the count was about 45 kids and 35 adults. It was the cub scouts, boy scouts, and girl scouts from the church that Cam's boy scouts is at. They woke us up at 6 this morning for our morning 1 1/2 hour tour of the zoo. After that they let us loose in the zoo. We only stayed a little while, we had to drive home, then kevin had to get ready to go back to Kansas. He left about an hour ago. We had a pretty good time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Truck Trouble
Kevin's truck broke down around November? And needed a new transmission put in. Well we have been making due with one vehicle since then. It took forever to get it fixed. We couldn't find a used transmission for it ( a new one would have been way too much money), then with the weather the guy that was supposed to fix it couldn't (he fixes cars in his driveway and didn't want to lie in the snow to fix the truck), and with all the snow and such everything is just a muddy mess, and the truck got stuck over in Kevin's neices yard. The tow truck couldn't get it out. We parked it over there after some idiot tried to steel it out of the yard here. They hotwired it and tried to drive it away, they didn't get far with no transmission! We finally got the truck back last week, just in time for Kevin to take it to Kansas.  He got home last Friday and said the truck isn't running right. So when he left for this week he took my van and left me with the truck. I took it in to be looked at on Tuesday, they said they couldn't find anything wrong with it. So I get to take it to another place on Monday. Hopefully thay can figure it out.

Updates

Kevin is currently working in Ft. Riley, KS. He says it is about 2 hours from here. He started out there last week. He is expecting to be out there till last summer or early fall. He is staying out there during the week and coming home on the weekends. He will be home tomorrow night.

I am working part time at the same place I was before (the place that fired me) I am working Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We will see how that goes.

We are still looking for a house, but with Kevin gone it is VERY slow going.

On Saturday night we will be spending the night at the Omaha Zoo with the Boy Scouts. We did this trip years ago, but it was in November and it was VERY COLD. Hopefully we will have somewhat warm weather. We get to sleep inside the zoo and they take us for a midnight tour of the zoo. It is pretty neat. The kids are really looking forward to it.

Next weekend Kevin and Cameron have a weekend camping trip with the Boy Scouts. Cameron will be gone Friday and Saturday night. Kevin will come home Friday night from Kansas and stay the night home then join Cameron on the campout Saturday morning.

New Blog

OK, this is my new project. I am going to use it to keep everybody up to date on what is going on in my world.