Another Weekend Trip!

So, last weekend, we went on yet another weekend trip. Our family went to Canada. We left our house at about 5:00 am Wednesday morning. We arrived at stop number 1, a few hours later, at 2:30 pm. Stop number 1 : Toronto. We visited a friends family, and that quite fun. We got the chance to eat some authentic First Nations foods, while we in Toronto. After that, at around 8:00 pm, we left for my cousins house. We got there around 10:00 pm. Thursday, we did school, and my cousins had some stuff to do in the afternoon, so we had their house to ourselves for the afternoon. Friday, we to the beach, of Lake Heron. What fun! We didn’t really swim, it was a bit to cold. Oh, my dad was preaching a series of meetings at my cousins church. That’s why were there. On Saturday, we just stayed at home. “We are going to relax, and do laundry.” My mom told us when we asked what we were going to do on Saturday. Me and my cousin played games, watched videos on YouTube, and went for a walk. Sunday, we had church, and just relaxed in the afternoon. Early Monday morning we left Ontario to go home. We got home around 3:00. It was an exhausting weekend, but very fun! I enjoyed it a lot. It’s good to be home though!

We climbed out on the rocks at the beach.

Spending a Night in the ER

So, Wednesday morning, at 3:00 am, I woke up with horrible abdominal pain. The pain lasted until around 5:00 am, when I fell back to sleep. Right away in the morning, it was back again. Throughout the day, the pain stayed, sometimes better, sometimes worse. After we ate supper, the pain got much worse, I couldn’t sit down, or lay down. As long as I was walking, the pain was tolerable. But by 10:00 pm, I couldn’t handle it anymore. We went into the ER, we saw a doctor around 12:00am. Through the night, I got a CT Scan, Ultra Sound, Urinal Test, and a blood test. All that, didn’t take to long. About half the night was waiting for test results. Finally around 6:00am, we were finally done. We got home, and my mom and I both tried to catch some sleep, before an appointment with our doctor. At 11:30 we went to the doctor, and talked about what she thought the pain was caused by. We don’t have a lot of answers, but the pain has subsided, and I have some meds to take now that should help. Anyways, I hope that we finally found the problem and that these meds will help.

Kilmer Family Cabin Weekend

Last weekend was both the youth group cabin weekend (that Emily wrote about.) And the cabin weekend with the Kilmer side of our family. We arrived Friday afternoon, and left Sunday afternoon.

Arriving on Friday.

We enjoyed talking, singing, and oh yeah, and eating, around the campfire.

The gorgeous blue sky, perfect weather for being outside!

Saturday morning we were awakened around 6 am. (Courtesy of some of the younger boys who insisted on playing pool in the same cabin we were sleeping in.) Later that day, my cousin Jesse and I went for a “jog” really, we didn’t jog, mostly we just walked. We saw two deer, and discovered a natural fish pond.

The fish pond. It was very peaceful, I could have stayed there a lot longer than we did.

On Sunday we were up around six again, the adults listened to a church service, and a few of us older kids played a game of Risk. We left the cabin around 2:30 that afternoon.

It was a fun weekend, other than the fact that my allergies went crazy, (The cabin was musty.) but that didn’t change the fact that it was a fun weekend. We bonded as cousins, aunts, uncles, ect. and also as a family.

Rubies Camp 2019

Hello! This is my first post on our family’s blog!

The week of August 4-9 was Keystone Rubies Girls Camp. It was my fifth year going to Rubies, and was very fun! I enjoyed my self thoroughly.

A random picture of a tree I took.

The days were full of activities like swimming, team building activities, and singing.

The chalk drawing done on Wednesday.
Shining black light on it.

It was a fun week, I grew a lot in my faith and got to know a lot of new people.