On our Utah trip, Robby and I would wake up before our alarms most days. This would happen even when our alarms were set to go off early. Now, that hasn't been happening at home this week, but I was little worried that would happen this morning in the camper. I was so happy when I looked at the clock this morning, and it was already 8:30. That was wonderful.
Robby took the dogs to potty, and then I got dressed. We decided to go and walk the dogs, and we had not gotten too far when it was started raining. We knew that the rain was coming, but we thought we had a little bit of time.
We hurried back to the camper and settled in during the rain. And it rained and rained and rained. We kept looking at the weather hoping that it would clear and hoping that the 6:00 shower that they forecasted was wrong.
Thankfully, after a 2 hour rain shower, it finally cleared, and the sun came up leading to a beautiful day. We all loaded up and headed to get ice and of course Sonic drinks. We filled 4 ice chests with sprites, waters, diet cokes, and cokes. Then we came back to the camper for a little bit.
Around 4:40, we loaded up the 7 pans of watermelon, the 6 pans of cookies, and the 10 bags of chips along with the 4 ice chests and headed to pick up 25 pizzas. We had the food and just needed Reagan to supply the people!
The party was at a professor's house, and it was the perfect location. They had a lake completely stocked with all kinds of kayaks and canoes plus a little pavilion. Reagan and her friends were there when we drove up, and they were all working hard getting things ready.
Our big boys showed up soon along with Shannon, and they all went to work helping get things out of the van and set up everything that we had. Then people started showing up. The party officially started at 5:30, but the group picture happened at 6.
I counted 59 in the group picture, plus Shannon who took the picture. When I counted everyone else that was not in the picture that showed up later, I think that there were 67 people at Reagan's 21st birthday party.
After our group picture, Reagan prayed, and then the kids started to eat. They ate and ate, but we still had plenty of pizza left. We also had plenty of cookies and watermelon left. My boys and Brett all had cookies and pizza for later. Reagan and some of her friends took watermelon and pizza. Plus I gave two pans of watermelon away to the teachers who were there.
Not only was it the perfect location, but it was also the perfect evening. Keaton, Campbell, and Whitman all kayaked. Anderson did a lot of paddleboarding-that was his first time to paddleboard. Graham didn't get in the water. I think that Reagan had the best time tonight-I know that we did.
When it started to get dark, we started to pick up. Cleaning up didn't take too long plus we had lots of empty pizza boxes to bring to our trash can. Once at the camper, we unloaded some things and then took the dogs on a walk. Now, it was just 10, and we had the whole night ahead of us!
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