Summer

The beginning of the week we went camping on the mountain with Lissa and Craig. Eric didn't end up going because he was helping his dad, so the kids and I went up. It was pretty nice because Lissa and Craig had Petty much all the food so all we had to take was clothes and sleeping stuff. We started out in a tent but ended up in the camper with Lissa and Craig by midnight or so. I got freaked out being out there by myself with just the kids. So Breanne and I slept on the top bunk thing and Brac crawled in with Lissa, Craig, and Hailee in the big bed.:) Before we went to bed we made the mistake on turning on some lights in the camper with the door still open so we ended up with tons of moths in there. I don't know why but those things absolutely freak me out! Brac started calling them "freakies", then pretty soon Breanne caught on to that so they now officially called freakies at our house. Brac went fishing with Craig a few times and Lissa and I cleaned up the camper and tent stuff and we had lunch and headed down just after noon. We decided its kinda hard to camp with little ones that aren't old enough to get down. But we had a pretty good time anyway.






On Thursday we went swimming at Dave's with Becky and her kids, it was pretty fun. Breanne didn't really enjoy herself too much which was probably my fault because I took her down the slide first thing. I just let go of her when we hit the water because I went down quite aways, by the time I came up she was pretty mad! She had a life jacket on and had flipped on her back and was kinda screaming and kicking her legs. She did really good though, it took me a minute to catch her cause she was kicking enough to swim away from me. Eric came by for his lunch break and swam with us for awhile too. Brac didn't get in the water too much either. He was kind of afraid. Last year while we were in Vegas he started doing really well and swimming by himself with the life jacket on. I wish I had been thinking the beginning of the summer and put him in swimming lessons I guess we will have to be sure and do it next year.

Yesterday was the Cook family reunion in Burlington. We just went and visited with some people and they had a little program. In the program they had some stories about our ancestors and my great grandparents with a little slide show of pictures. Some of the older grand kids, my dad and his cousins, told stories and memories about my great grandparents. I never met my great grandfather but I do kind of remember my great grandmother a little bit. I think I was only about 5 when she died. She was a very funny lady! My grandpa told a story of him and his brother when they were kids:
My great grandma's visiting teachers were over visiting and they had caught a cat and took it into the kitchen, they pried its mouth open and dumped a bunch of lemon juice in its mouth! He said they didn't have to let the cat go it more clawed its way down and right into the room with my great grandma and her visitors. The cat ran around the room, over and under chairs foaming at the mouth. They visiting teachers were sure it had Hydrophobia or something!
Grandpa said he will never forget that! I'm not sure I will either I can only imagine that poor cat. From the rest of the stories they told about great grandpa he must have been a lot like Uncle Ernie, or I guess I should say Ernie is a lot like he was.

Update on the running. Happy to say I have done really well! I have run at least 4 times a week since I started and still going strong. I have only lost 4 pounds though. I saw Cailee yesterday and she actually noticed that I have slimmed up a little, it made my Day!