Freston Family Campout

We were so glad that it worked out for us to be out in Utah during the time we usually have my family’s summer campout. We had a great time hiking, playing in the stream, catching lots of bugs and creepy crawlin’ things, doing crafts, shooting BB guns, roasting marshmallows and doing alot of hanging out… It was great!!!

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We did leave Camp one of the days and went to Lagoon. They were offering the bounce back passes so some of the family went back on Monday as well. This was Xander’s first time at an amusement park, he was pretty hesitant. The first ride I took him on was the log ride, I didn’t even give him an option of going or not I just got on with him. We sat behind my brother Jim so he thankfully, couldn’t see much. After the drop down into the water he said to me “My Puppy didn’t like that!” He was even nervous on the kid rides. He had such a serious look on his face during the ride and then after it was over he would smile and say “let’s do it again”. He would have been happy to ride the little cars all day long. Katie was CRAZY, wanting to go on everything, even the big scary adult rides. Becca did pretty good, went with the older girls for awhile but then came back and joined the younger group after awhile. She doesn’t get into the wild rides like Katie and Susie. Susie’s favorite was the new ride ‘Wicked’ she was very excited to be at Lagoon with her cousins.

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The second trip to Lagoon didn’t go so well at the beginning of the day…we lost Katie. Let me rephrase that we left Katie… We had just got there and several of the younger kids got on a kiddy ride, I thought Katie got on with them. But the ride was full so she waited for the next one. Well the other kids got off and off we went to another ride clear across the amusement park. She was very brave and did the right thing. She stayed there and waited for us to come back and get her. She waited and waited and started to get sad. A man noticed her and asked if she was lost, she said yes. He found a security guard and they took down all her information etc. and then they were taking her to the lost and found children’s place…I don’t know what it is called…this is just awful I know… and Katie saw her Uncle Gilbert coming out of the bathroom. She told the security woman that he was her uncle so they approached Gilbert. He just about fell over when he saw Katie, boy was she glad to see him. So then Lisa comes out of the bathroom and sees Katie there and hears what happened and she flips out, now here is the really bad part… Well with 14 kids running all over the place we didn’t even notice she was missing. I know it is terrible, I am a horrible parent AGHHHH!!! Lisa calls Tenisha on the cell phone and tells us to do a head count that they just found Katie!!! I have to admit that I am grateful she was found before we knew she was missing so I didn’t have to go through that absolute PANIC of finding her but I will tell you what, I didn’t sleep well for several nights having nightmares of loosing my kids!!! There is a neat side to this story too for Katie, she had her own little miracle in all this. She told us that as the security lady was walking with her she decided to say a prayer for help. And just a few steps away out comes Uncle Gilbert! Now what are the odds that Lisa and Gilbert happen to stop to use the bathrooms at that time and at that restroom and that the lady was walking Katie right by there, not even near where we had left Katie, good timing??? I don’t think so… miracles do still happen and thankfully Katie was sent one that day!!!