Rough River

Very first thing to mention. There is a slideshow at the end of this post, BUT, you're better off to go ahead and read the post first because there are 99 pics on it and it takes about a minute or so to load up properly. So if you read this first, by the time you get to the end of it, the slideshow will have loaded up and you can sit back with some popcorn and enjoy the show. hehe. =)

SOOOOO, Camping was friggin awesome! Deena said that the State Park part of Rough River stunk cuz it was right by the Dam... well I want some of what she's been smokin cuz it didn't smell like anything but outside to all of us and we were right at the Dam. Lol.. it was actually kinda neat being by it cuz you could hear the rapids. =) Crazy girl. =) It was really nice. This was the first time I'd ever been to Rough River before and the first time Mik had ever been camping.... and the first time I believe that all the kids had been out on a boat.. cept maybe Tyler.. not sure about him.

Let me introduce everyone real quick so that your not sitting there like, um... who?
It was me and Sean and Mik (3)... Mom and Larry... Amy and Terry, her two kids Nathan (10) and Andrew (7), his two kids, Tyler (10) and Bethany (3)... Billy, Christina and Corey all went Friday night also but they left Saturday night because Billy had agreed to do Colors at church on Sunday. 14 of us total. gaawwwd. lol

Friday, after traveling 4 cars deep down the highway for an hour and a half we get there and go to the check in booth thingy. They told us everything was taken except primtive which is what I was wanting anyway.. lol.. so we went and found two sites together out of the maybe 5 spots left. They turned out to be nice sites... but on a really back slope. The picnic table was on a hill, the tents were on a hill, the fire was on a hill therefore your chairs were on a hill.... it definitly took a little skill on your own part, but once everyone got used to it.. we managed.
We got a nice fire going, got everything set up.. the kids immeditly disappeared... it was great. Mik and Bethany played so great together all day and night and day and night.. it was the absolute cutest thing ever. The boys are all so good with the little girls too... Everyone of the boys watch out for them and keep them out of what they shouldn't be in... I mean we let Andrew (7) take both the girls, (both 3) and go to the playground which was up the street waaay out of sight. And he did great! She has such good kids. I mean Andrew is still kinda young but Nathan is 10 and at 10 kids have such independance ya know... and I know Amy and Terry have been together for a year or so now but still... for only knowing Bethany for a year maybe and only knowing Mik for a few months...They both are so great with both of em. =) Anyway... We got to meet Tyler this weekend... that was nice, I was hoping he'd get to come also. He's an awesome kid too... and poor thing looks just like his daddy. hehe I'm kidding.. he's much cuter than his daddy... (take that TGeazy lol) But he's ALL BOY! He was one of the first to hop off the boat (without a life jacket) he was catching frogs all night every night lol, he's a good kid. And Sean just had a ball playing with them all weekend... Poor Guy prolly threw a football or baseball or something od the sort for like 20 hours combined.. but he loved it.

The girls weren't afraid of anything. Well Bethany was a bit freaked out by the lake, but other than that... theytouched the frogs.. they liked the spiders and lizards I'd show or catch for em... they wandered around in the dark by themselves (we could see em but they didn't know it lol) they were really good. Saturday afternoon and night were a bit rough with both of them but that's just cuz we spent all day out on the boat in the sun and swimming and everything and they were just so tired but just didn't wanna give in to it, lol. They both ASKED to go to bed Saturday night. And Mik fell asleep in the tent Saturday by herself and was pretty far away from us for a good 5 hours or so until we came to bed. I was REALLY impressed with that. The sleeping part was the part I was dreading most. I was really hoping they'd let her sleep with all the toher kids cuz I knew she'd be alright sleeping then... but she really surprised me. The first night... she went to bed with Mom and Larry cuz they turned in early and she seen the opportunity.. hehe but Saturday night she was so tired she didn't care.. lol Then Sunday night I laid in there and read to her and scratched her back till she fell asleep mostly and she was fine with that too.... so yay!

Saturdya morning... see Friday night we had decided that Me and Terry would ride up to the marina at like 7 am to ensure we got a boat for Saturday... yea well.. 7 am Saturday comes and he's OUT. lol so me and mom went instead... went to the main marina.... sold out for the WEEKEND! K, this was sat. mornign 7 am and all the way thru Tuesday was SOLD OUT. lol so I got directions from them to this other place in a diff. town and we go there... walk in and the lady at the register is on the phone taking a cancellation... by the time she gets off the phone theres like 3 people behind us in line... So we ask for a boat... and she says Well.... we were sold out till the lady on the phone just now cancelled this one... your first in line.. it's yours. YAY for Karma!
So.... the little "rule boy" that shows us about our lifejackets and shit stands there and watches us because theres a 10 person max on the boat... hmmmm... how to fix this? Sean, Christina, Billy, and Corey all say Ok we'll just meet you back at camp. So we all say tata and we get on the boat... Rule Boy let's us go. yay boat. We go around the bend and pull up at the beach which is FLOODED and there they all stand.. lol so we pick them up and spend the rest of the day on the boat. We went over to one of the bridges that you drive over to get to the campgrounds and Terry, Sean, Billy, and Corey all take turns jumping off.. lol it's a pretty high fukkin bridge too.. Terry was talking shit about jumping off this bridge all weekend.. and he's the first one up there.. and we're all sitting on the boat waiting on his chicken ass... hehe and this couple are driving by and stop and come up.. We were all sitting there like haha he's trying to pep talk terry when he takes his shirt off, goes out of sight, then comes running and jumps over the guard rail and into the water.. it was funny shit... so shortly after Sean goes up to do it.. terry jumps... then sean jumps.. and it look slike so much fun tha tbilly and corey had togo jump as well.. it was great but none of the little shits gave enough warnign to accuratly catch it on camera or video! Like I'd be sitting there wth it aimed and everything for so long it would go into power saver mode and then they'd jump and I'd press the button and then it would take too long to function and I'd getl ike the splash or their head coming up or something GAY cuz they couldn't warn somebody! Assholes.. lol But Tyler REALLY wanted to do it too but Terry wouldn't let him. Prolly wasn't a good idea.. that's pretty high for a little kid like that.. with no lifejacket cuz a lifejacket would have been a bad idea.. lol. Mikayla loved the lake so much that she actually JUMPED off the boat once... but we couldn't let them do that cuz it was like feet above flood level or something.. The beach was closed all weekend cuz of it. Bethany got in but she had to hold on to someone or she flipped out... not mik lol she got mad when you held on to her.. she wanted to swim around on her own... But then we went swimming at the pool later that night too and I think between the two waters being swallowed all day... the belly was little mad cuz she yakkedon my blankie Sunday morning... lol she was fine though after that... and that friggin campground had a friggin laundromat... Yea! a LAUNDROMAT! I know. I know.

Funniest thing in the world happened though.. And I guess maybe you'd have to know my daughter and my mom but maybe it can be funny for everyone. See my mom has fake eyes... and usually daily, she needs to take them out and rinse them off... well she's always managed to keep Mik from seeing her do it.. but... hang on.. I'm already laughing about it....breathe.. ok. Yea, so I'm peeing and I told Mik to go ut and wash her hands.. well mom thought she was alone and was rinsing her eyes off.. lololol oh gawd.... ok.. so I hear Mik say, kinda confused like... but in that innocent cute little girl voice ya know.. "Mamaw... are you giving your eyes a bath?" Mom of course started laughing and I damned near fell over cuz I'm hovering over the seat ya know... it was funny shit... so then I finish up... legs hurting lol... go out to wash my hands and Mik looks up at me and... and I swear here... her little chin kinda quivered and she just looked at me and said "I don't wanna do that mommy".... lol and I couldn't help it but I bust out laughing again... poor kid... lol but I couldn't help it.. it's just too damned funny.. you'd have laughed your ass off if you were there too.. lolol So I explained it all to her and she was ok and laughed as well.. she gets alittle freaked out still when she sees me brush my teeth cuz I have a partial in the front.. lol
So anyway... to sum it up... It was awesome. I'm so happy that she's a good camper cuz now... when we're like what can we do this weekend? let's go camping! yay!
Mik did get a tick this weekend. This morning... (monday) we woke up and she was off the bed all like stuck to the door.. lol she's such a rough sleeper... but when she woke up I seen it on her shoulder.. I know all her freckles so it was either dirt or a tick... and she flipped out when we tried to get it off her. The whole heat theory.... doesn't work for my kid.. you can't burn the tick while it's on Mikaylas arm... you can't even physically restrain her enough to do it.. lol sooooo.... I went over to our asshole neighbors in the pop up camper with a mutha fukkin generator... Yea a GENERATOR... in the PRMITIVE section... um hmm yea that kinda ticked me off a bit.. they turned it off at night though or we had planned to go snip a wire or something... lol But anyway.. I went and borrowd their tweezers to just try and grab it... well their tweezers looked like scissors and she was having no part of that either so as I went to take those back to the generator having non primitive assholes in the camper... she just picked at it and got it. I looked pretty good.. I seen no red mark.. no head... not even a bump so it must have just got her when we found it.. and of course I had to put a band aid on it.. lol kids are crazy.
Tyler thinks I'm the Wo-Man though cuz he had a splinter that was just killing him and he couldn't get anyone to get it for him and he came to me and I told him to close his eyes and he kept saying is it gonna hurt is it gonna hurt... and while he was asking me I grabbed it with the clippers and pulled it out and let go and he was like wow your awesome... hehe I'm always the friggin nurse. lol
It was a ton of fun though. Terry and Amy took their kiddos to the pool on Sunday but I had had enough sun and water for a day or so and so had everyone else lol so we went and played putt-putt and on the playground and drove around for about 2 hours just looking at the farms and stuff. We found this NEAT little outdoor theater thing up in Caynesville or some po-dunk town like an hour past rough river.... it looked really cool though. We went and got ice cream and matching toe rings.. hehe Mik always asks about my toe ring so I found little handmade ones that are really cute (see pic below hehe) and i got us both one.. actually.. got her two (cuz I'm smart like that) and went back to camp about an hour or so before everyone else got back... and when they got back, they said they were leaving that night... so after they left we had Sunday afternoon and night just us mik mom and larry... it was nice to get to spend some time with just them too... Mom had a blast and I'm so glad. =) We got to spend all kinds of time doing everything this weekend... it was really nice.

But, I told mom this too.... I'm THRILLED that Mikayla likes camping and that she's good when we take her... BUT, I still like camping sometimes without the kiddo.... This weekend wasn't the typical lazy do not much of anything relaxing weekend it usually is and I need that sometimes too. I still don't think I'll take Mik to the Gorge for a nother few years.... She needs to be able to understand rules a little better before she can go there... and I LOVE the gorge.. Rough River was beautiful and all but the Gorge is in it's own little category for me... I LUV it. AND... I'm a primitive girl.... I don't like to be able to even HEAR my neighbors... let alone see them.... hehe. =)

I get to see much much more camping in my future now... yay for me having the best daughter in the world! =)

Enjoy the pics.. and like I said.. there's 99 of em.. so it'll take awhile if you see them all but they are all worth it. =) I took like 300 something pics... 99 is the LEAST amount I could be happy showing. =)
Luvs.

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