Our staycation!

Over labor day weekend, Brandon and I decided that we would go down to Kaysville and spend some time with my parents (and sister) since Brandon missed out on the Cheney reunion. We were going to head down friday morning after his class. We were excited to swim, see family, have some ice cream, and maybe go to see the Tabernacle Choir on Sunday morning. Well Thursday night as i was getting Coleton ready for bed i had this feeling like something was going to go wrong on the car ride. I knew in the back of my head that it was because Coleton hated being in the car and he was probably going to cry most of the way but i went and asked Brandon how he felt about the drive? He said he felt fine. Brandon told me that if i felt like we shouldnt go then we wouldnt! I thought back to my family reunion, my parents had given a lesson during Family Home Evening about how in the future things might happen. Spouses may die, children might get sick, things will happen but we have to be spiritually prepared for these time as a family and individually. I knew Brandon wanted so bad to go down and i was so excited for a little vacation, so we decided that we would get ready and if i decided we should not go Friday morning we wouldnt. The next morning i figured that if my mom called me i would tell her we couldnt come (kind of knowing that she was not going to since i had already called her the day before) but to my surprise she called. She said she heard the phone ring but didnt get to it in time and thought that it was me. Hearing that I said to her that we were not going to be coming anymore because i just didnt feel right about it. She understood and when Brandon came home i told him my decision.

Since we were going to be staying home we planned some activities for our long weekend. On Friday night we grabed our camping tent (which we had just bought for our new 72 hour kit which we made for family home evening the Monday before),got some steaks and decided to go camping and have a little BBQ! Camping is just not the same when you have a 4 1/2 month old baby so instead of going to a camping sight we went to Brandons parents backyard! We used their grill and made shiscobobs. Though it was our first time making them, they were amazing! We then went to a Cedar High football game since Brandon teaches some of the players. After the game, we got some ice cream from sonic and headed to our "camp"! We put Coleton inside the house and put the monitor on hims so i could here him and we went to bed! It was a blast we were shocked to find the grass ,that night, was so comfortable (unlike normal camping) and the weather was perfect. i slept so good but Coleton woke about every hour but nun the less it was great!

Saturday morning we got up ate homemade zuccini bread that i had brought and then headed home to shower! When we got home we found that my parents called. They wanted to know if we wanted to buy their truck from them that they were going to try selling, so excited (because we only have one car right now and we live 12 miles from anything) we said that we would buy it from them! They drove down on Sunday morning to drop it off to us and then they were going to stay over night and spend some time with us! We were so excited to have them come down it was going to be the first time they saw our house, Brandons office, and his room. Sunday after church we came home to our parents! but there was no truck?? Well come to find out the transmittion went out about half way to cedar city! Here is the clincher, my dad told us that he heard a little noice as he was driving along, knowing that something sounded wrong he pulled over slowed down to about 20 miles and at that point the car seized up and the truck started to swerve pretty bad! I thought that was pretty scary but then he said this, if you would have come down this weekend we would have had Brandon drive it back. If he would not have slowed down when he heard the little noice (and since Brandon doesnt know a huge amount about cars he would not have) the car would have probably rolled a few times!! I thought back to that feeling i had and was so greatful for it! I was so frustrated that we could not go to my parent but i cant imagine the feelings i would have has as i would have watched the truck, Brandon would have been driving, roll while i thought to myself i had that feeling to stay why didnt i listen! What a lesson this taught me, i know that our Heavenly Father is watching over us and protecting us daily and i know that if we listen and follow the promptings from the Holy Ghost we will be protected and if something does happen i am grateful to know that since Brandon and i were sealed together in the temple that we can be an eternal family which is such a comfort.

But back to the weekend, we had so much fun with them during their stay. We had dinner, showed them around the house, and the seminary building. They had to head back to Sunday night but we are so excited that they came down and can not wait for the next time they can come!

Monday was our last day over our staycation so we decided to go play mini golf, since we are still getting over being poor college students we didnt want to pay to go to a real course but the park close to our house has a mini golf course that is open to anyone, so we went and played! It was great there are about 6 holes so we played each a few times and sadly Brandon won but only by a few! Coleton was napping so he stayed in the car seat for most of it but when he did wake up he was pretty entertained by it all!Since we had a chance to do a little camping of course you need to do a little fishing! In our new house we have a juccuci tub and Brandon has some fishing fish(the ones that have magnets on their mouths) so when Coleton went to bed we filled the tub up, put the fish in, and put the jets on and away those fish swam!

Our :abor day weekend went great! I love being in a relationship were we dont have to spend alot of money to have fun together. It was just fun to spend time with our little family!