Well...

We got our computer yesterday. And I'm happy to report that it worked when we plugged it in here in Nauvoo. I'm hoping it will continue working without problems for the next 5 years (at least) but I'm also aware that that's wishful thinking!!

Since my kids are on East Coast time and Nauvoo is on central time, Landon and Grant were awake at 6:30 (actually earlier than that, I just wouldn't get up and get them breakfast before that). I'm hoping I'll be able to get in a nap sometime today, but I'd rather be tired than miss out on something, so we'll see if I have enough discipline to actually nap. So, I thought while everyone else in the house was sleeping, I'd play a bit of catch-up on the blog.

I'm the Activities Committee Chairman for our ward and we planned a ward camp-out for 'Pioneer Day' (July 23-24th weekend). It was really the only time we could work a camp-out into the calander, but I'll admit, July isn't the best time to go camping in the midwest. Our committee had everything ready to go and my kids were SO excited. Well, the day of, it was TOO stinking hot! With the humidity it was supposed to be up to about 110 degrees. So, because there was a heat advisory out, we ended up canceling the camp-out. My kids were pretty sad! I was secretly a bit relieved because I wasn't really looking forward to sleeping on the ground while pregnant (seeing as how I already don't sleep very well in my bed) and especially if it was going to be miserably hot! When Steven came home from work he set up the tent in our living room. We don't have a tent, so we had borrowed one from my mom and dad for the camp-out. It was huge. We had to push our furniture to opposite walls and the tent took up the whole livingroom! But the kids had a BLAST sleeping and playing in there. I was going to make s'mores on the grill (or microwave) but forgot, but they weren't even missed much because the kids were having so much fun with the tent.