Camping Once Again

We took the family up to Prosser Lake in Truckee, California last weekend. My parents, both brother, my brother in law and his kids and some good friends of ours went with us. We spent two night and three days enjoying the nature around us as well as alot of ATV riding (not Mike of course, but he wanted to) and fishing.

It's always nice to get away from all the commotion and get back to what important...family! Mike had the opportunity to cook in the dutch ovens, he loves to do this...sometimes it drives me crazy but I know he loves it.

While we were camping, well before we could even get unpacked both our van and the Wiscombes had a flat tire and then a few hours later we both had dead batteries. We all took this in good humor and Mike had actually packed everything we would both need to fix the problems. He's a little more in tune to listening to the spirit and following the promptings that he gets. We don't take anything for granted any more...we recognize every prayer and are grateful for all the blessings we have been given. We knew we were blessed to make it home on the spare tire (a 100 mile drive), but realized it on Monday morning when we went to Sam's Club to get a new set of tires to replace the one bad one. We asked to keep the old/good tire but were told by the mechanic that it wouldn't be any good...when he removed it he found 2 nails still in the tire and a third one had gone thru the side wall but hadn't punctured the tire. I told Mike we really made it home on a prayer this time. I thought we were blessed not to have any problems with the spare...I'm glad I didn't know about the nails in the other tire until after the trip.

Mike's brother Roger and his family will be coming up next weekend (Labor Day weekend). We will be Ordaining Tommy to the office of Deacon and Mike is happy to be able to do this with his brother by his side. With all that his family has done for us this summer it means even more that they can join us in this event. Tommy is really looking forward to this big day.