Payson Lakes

This picture does not even describe the amount of dirt on this kid! She thought she had died and gone to heaven playing in the dirt! She was hysterical to watch. She has no fear. She was trying to pick the bugs off the bumper of TJ and Jenn's car as well as pick up the large ants. Gross!! My no fear child!

We decided to go to Payson Lakes with Jenn and TJ Carlson and their girls. We were only going for one night. Jake was so excited to go that he went out and bought the stuff we needed two nights before and started packing way in advance. I don't blame him, I was pretty excited too. We got all packed up and before we could even turn the corner to come out of our neighborhood, Avery throws up in the car! Sick!! I would much rather clean up poop than vomit. So we turned around to clean her and the car up. That morning was the ward breakfast and Avery had been a crazy girl and was riding her bike like a mad woman around the park in the little parade. She threw up then, but Jake just figured it was heat exhaustion. It was really hot, even at 9 am. So we threw her and a different booster in the car and started on our way. Not long after that, on I-15, she threw up again, luckily aiming for a bag we had given her. What were we thinking?! I kind of felt like a bad mom, taking my kid camping when she kept throwing up. And let's be honest, who wants to deal with puke in a tent?! But, everything was packed to the hilt and we were on our way. Payson isn't too far, so if it got bad, we would just go home. She didn't have a fever....so let's keep going. We got our tent side set up and decided to go fishing. We had just gotten there, started to relax and .....vomit, again! So, I took her and Rylee back to the campsite and started dinner. Avery just lied on the picnic bench the entire time. I felt really bad to sit and watch her heave. There honestly is nothing worse than watching your kid heave and heave and not have anything to throw up. I felt really bad. I put the girls to bed. We roasted smores and played a game and then went to bed....well sort of. Both Jake and I got in our sleeping bags...and again! Heaving. Only this time, I don't think she woke up. I think she heaved into the nearby pan and fell back to sleep. Rylee on the other hand is a really light sleeper. She woke up. It took another hour or hour and a half to finally get Rylee back to sleep. The next morning we were eating breakfast and again...vomit. Avery couldn't keep anything down. She told us she wanted to go home. ...So we packed up and left. Phew. That was a lot of work for 14 hours of camping. I felt bad for Jake who had worked so hard to get us there. It was fun, but we need to have healthy kids to have even more fun!! Needless to say, it was our first camping trip in our new "investment" (springbar tent), as Jake calls it. Other than having sickies it would have been fun!