A belated Father's Day

Last week, after Audrey finished her last day of school, we headed up the mountains to our favorite camping spot...Azalea Campground in Kings' Canyon National Park. We had planned a wonderful, relaxing, five-day trip with our friends, the Schlesselman family. Although the weather was wonderful, and the company great, it was not as relaxing as we hoped. Our first night up there, Violet came down with a bad case of diarrhea. And by Thursday night, just when Violet was starting to feel better, Morgan (our friends' 8 year old daughter) and I started throwing up. Just wonderful! Luckily, I only puked once and felt much better. And Morgan had the "luxury" of relaxing in their RV while she recuperated as well. By Friday morning everyone was feeling much better! We were joined by three more families from our church (the Mars, the Ogawas, and the McNeelys) along with Randy's mom and brother for the weekend. We mainly relaxed, did a little hiking around camp and to the Big Trees,and we also enjoyed a lot of good food too! We enjoyed campfires at night, along with smores, of course! More relaxing...and, of course, an afternoon on the General Store porch with some ice cream!Well, on Sunday morning, Father's Day, Randy woke up feeling sick to his stomach and really shaky. So without delay we packed up all our stuff and headed down the mountain for home. We had planned on staying up most of the day...and Arlene and Kevin had planned a BBQ steak lunch for Randy...but we decided to cut it a couple hours short. We made it home before noon and Randy relaxed on the couch the rest of the day with a 102 fever! And with Violet and I suffering a "relapse" of sorts, no one in the family felt like doing much. So yesterday (Monday), Randy enjoyed a belated Father's day of sorts. He was feeling much better but still running a fever, so he stayed home from work. We watched a movie with the kids. He opened his gifts. The kids and I made him some chocolate chip cookies. And we ate dinner at his favorite place...Don Pepe's Taqueria. I am so blessed to have such an amazing husband...that is also such a great dad to all our kids! Happy Father's Day Randy! And Happy Father's Day to my Dad too! You are the BEST! We love you all the way from California to Kansas!