I don’t know that you’d call us spontaneous people, but this weekend we had a wild hair and we decided to go with it! Friday we found out that our plans for the weekend had changed, so we decided that we kind of wanted to take a little day trip or something just to get out of town. I got off work at 5:20, picked up Jaxon and we were home by about 5:45. Joey had been looking online for ideas. We decided to go to Six Flags for the day! By 6:30, we had a room reserved and had started packing. We were on the road by 7:20! Pretty crazy!! Jaxon was so excited!

Most of you know, but I grew up in Arlington. Growing up going to six flags was no big deal, we had season passes every year and went whenever we wanted. I hadn’t been back in over 11 years! IT. WAS. SO. HOT., SO VERY HOT! We had a blast though. There was plenty to do and see and we all had a great time! It was a nice but short family getaway!! Here are a few pictures from our weekend!

I love this one!


my little superhero with his new green lantern shirt & batman cape

Some of Jaxon’s photography from the weekend!


I hope you had a great weekend too!

These are just a few conversations I’ve had with Jaxon in the last few days that I want to remember::

Just a few moments ago….

Me:Jaxon, I love you
Jax:I lobe you too
Jax:you sweet

Talk about melting my heart!!!!!

Me:Are you picking your nose?
Jax:Yeah, I’m picking boogers
Me:Ewww….that’s gross, stop please
Jax: picking boogers, picking boogers, picking boogers(in a singing voice)

last night we were walking into the house and my hands and arms were FULL….

Jax:Mommmy, I want you to hold me
Me:Jax, mommy’s hands are full and the door is right there, I’ll hold you inside
Jax:Mommy Please…
Me:(shifting everything into one arm and bending down to get him)Come here
Jax:thanks mom, I told you, you have another arm
I don’t know where he gets his determination from!

In the car last week….

Jax:Mommy, you’re not a boy
Me:no buddy I’m not, You and daddy are the only boys in our house
Jax:You’re the princess and Daddy is not a boy he’s a daddy man
Me:(heart melting)You’re right I am the princess!

There are more but that’s what’s coming to mind right now!!

Happy Friday!!!

So, I’m sure with my two week blogging vacation I’ve lost some readers but that’s okay because I’ve really enjoyed my time off!

I know I owe several posts…I need to finish our little love story….I need to post about camp and I need to catch up!

I have started reading the Twilight Series.

I’m not quite sure about it yet…but it’s early yet! I did go ahead and order the next two and pre-ordered the last one on Amazon.

Joey went back to work today. Here’s an action shot of Joe at camp. We had a paint war and he acted like he was the hitman!

Jaxon had a great time. There was about a two day adjustment period…but overall he was pretty good. My little cousin Rylee was there and they became best friends fast!

I know this is really dull…I promise to get more exciting!!

We got home from camp at 3:15 AM this morning!!! We are exhausted but had a blast! I will finish the story and fill you in on our week soon!!!

I’ll leave you with some pics today!

I can’t find any of the really old camp pics. I have some more I may scan in tonight…but this will have to do for now!

Man, I was tan!
My Best friend since 4th grade – Amy. She met her husband at Lu-Jo too! We met the first day of camp in 4th grade…and we’re still close!
One of my all time favorites!
This was the last year we were there.Stacey – I have some REALLY good ones of you – stay tuned!

Happy Thursday!

Camp Lu-Jo Kismif
Lu-Jo stands for Lucille Jones – she donated the land for the camp in 1960.
Kismif stands for Keep It Spiritual Make It Fun

For those of you who know me from growing up, you know that Camp Lu Jo has a VERY special place in my heart. For the rest of you…..here’s the story.

There once was a little girl who was four years old, her name was Suzanne. Her parents volunteered a week each summer to be on staff at Camp Lu-Jo Kismif. The little girl is now 29 and she has spent a total of 20 summers of her life at Camp. She never missed a week of camp until about 5 years ago. There were many summers she went two weeks instead of one. Once she was out of school she went back to be on staff with her husband. By the way, she met her husband there. They had known each other for a few years but one year that all changed. He was going to be a freshman in college and she was going to be a junior in high school. Here’s the story of how it all came to be.
The next summer, he was about to enter his sophomore year at OC and she was going to be a senior in high school. She had just had knee surgery about 3 weeks before camp, but couldn’t bear to miss it. Luckily for her, there was a boy named Joey that was super sweet. She was quite the klutz and walked into a hole the first day of camp and twisted her knee she had just had surgery on! She ended up in the ER and needless to say…in bed pretty much all week. Some would say that it was a pretty crappy week of church camp. Little did she know it was a life changing week, but she wouldn’t find that out for a couple of years.
Well, that boy named Joey took care of her that week. She really didn’t know him well at all and didn’t understand why he was being so nice to her. He would come and visit her several times a day. He made sure she was fed and any time she needed to go down the hill to the main camp area, he would carry her down. Each of them had a bf/gf at home, so there was nothing really there. At the end of the week they agreed that they would keep in touch during the year. She was planning to attend OC the next year and had trips planned to visit.
So camp had come and gone…the after camp blues had set in and especially so for her. She didn’t realize that she really felt something for this guy until she called his house to talk to him and his dad told her that he had gone to the city to visit his girlfriend. She didn’t give up yet though. She sent a few cards and notes throughout the year. Then the time came to make a trip to OC. Once there she ran in to Joey and he really didn’t give her the time of day. Needless to say she was crushed but moved on and enjoyed her senior year of high school.
Once summer rolled around and the week of camp had arrived Suzanne wasn’t sure if Joey was going to be there or if she even wanted to see him. She was at camp but trying to decide if she wanted to stay or go. Before it was too late, she saw a little red ford ranger pull up and her heart sank. It’s what she didn’t know yet that would change her life forever….To be continued.