Camping and Anniversary

Dennis and I celebrated our 3rd year anniversary on August 7th.

I can't believe we already have two kids! When Dennis proposed to me, he took me to The Roof Restaurant in the Joseph Smith Building for dinner. Having the Salt Lake temple right outside the window is one of the best things about The Roof. The best thing is the dessert table! Its an all you can eat buffet with amazing food and even more amazing desserts. Our favorite is the creme brulee. Dennis and I have made it a tradition to go back to The Roof every year on our anniversary. It costs about a hundred dollars to go, but the food and the atmosphere are so worth it. This year when we got to our table they had a sign saying "Happy 3rd Anniversary!" And Dennis also had them put a little rose bouquet at my place setting, which was a happy surprise for me. My brother Roy and his wife Marissa were babysitting Livey and Maddy and they had their own 6 month old son to care for, so we didn't do anything else that night. We decided to get a new tent for our gift to each other. We had fun going to Cabella's and we even found the perfect tent on sale. The tent is an 8 man tent and is huge.

We tested it out by going camping two weeks later. My parents and Roy & Marissa went with us up to Squaw Peak to some free camping grounds. We had just gotten set up when across the Meadow from us, some guy's jeep caught on fire! Everybody got out of the car fast and they came running over asking if we had water. The 5 gallon jug of water we had sadly didn't do anything to the flames. Dennis called 911 on my phone and tried to explain to the operator how to get there. The jeep started catching a tree on fire and I was kinda freaking out and got Maddy in her car seat all ready to jump in the car and get out of there in case there was a forest fire. The popping sounds the tires made when the heat was too much scared me a lot! I have never seen a car catch fire before and all I could think of was the movies where the car is on fire for about 2 seconds then explodes in a huge ball of fire. Luckily real life is different and cars don't really explode like that. The jeep had pretty much burned to the ground by the time the firetrucks got there and put out the flame. They had quite a few firemen there and they had to stay for a few hours afterwards in case the fire started back up again. What an exciting start to our camping trip! We almost didn't go camping at all because the night before Olivia had a fever of 102. I called the doctor and he said to monitor it and come in the morning if it didn't go down. So we went to the doctors office around 9 and he said her throat was really red and inflamed. He thought it was probably strep throat. He also let us know that Maddy couldn't get it since she was under a year old, which was a relief. We asked the doc if he thought we should go camping and he told us to go. After the first dose of medicine Livey seemed to feel better and her fever went down. For dinner we had chili dogs with all the toppings. And of course what would a camping trip be without s'mores? After dinner my mom and Marissa brought out their guitars and we sang campfire songs. Then we decided it was time for bed. Olivia has a little princess tent that actually fit inside our big tent. And we took the swing for Maddy to sleep in and that also fit nicely into the tent. We had a horrible night sleep. Olivia kept on waking up and crying off and on all night. We tried putting her between us to sleep, but I kept on almost falling off the air mattress. Then sometime after midnight a tow truck had come to take the burned up jeep away, with all the beeping and yelling I'm sure no one slept through that. And of course when that was over some late partiers decide to make a ruckus. Maddy even woke up to nurse more then usual. I was also freezing because we didn't put the fly up on the tent, which keeps in heat. *Sigh* We also had to get up early to eat breakfast because Roy had to go to work. My parents got a little more sleep then we did, so after breakfast they took Olivia so that Dennis, Madalynn and I could go back to the tent to get more sleep. What a crazy camping trip! Next time we definitely won't go when Livey is sick and we won't forget to put up the fly so we don't freeze. But besides that we actually had a good time camping and we are very gratful that there wasn't a forest fire.