My sister -n-law, Dana, thinks it is important for all of us to spend quality time
together. She likes to plan things for all of us to do together as a family...
On one of her valiant attempts to get the family to spend the day
together, she decides a day at the river is just what we all need!
So in their suburban that seats 55, Chris drove us over to Arrowhead
for a day of rafting the Illinois river. (Gramma stayed behind to keep Kellen).
The day started good. Three boys watching the 'new' Mario Bros. movie I
had picked up for Jaxson's birthday.... Jon saw it and was like ' I think I
remember watching this when I was a kid.' Um, so he reads the back of the dvd...
1989 copyright! Woopsy. Fortunately the boys loved it and never knew any different !
On to rafting we went !! The day was sunny, sweaty, and perfect for the river. The river
however, had decided it was going to be off for the day and had completely come
to a halt. Very little movement whatsoever! So poor Jon and Chris got their work-outs
in paddling all day. About half way through our 12 mile jot I decided to grab the 3rd
paddle and help out if we ever planned to get home by dark!
The boys were oblivious to any work taking place... Caden is the oldest
and he was enjoying snorkeling the river every time we stopped
to swim. Jaxson is content doing just about anything with his cousins, and Reece...
well Reece could care less about being at the hot dirty river, he was just happy
there were plenty of snacks! Reece is usually good to go as long as plenty of
snacks and something to wash them down with is in arms reach :)
In the middle of all the paddling and sunburned skin Dana sighed and said,
well I just wanted us to do something fun as a family... and Jon replied
with, ' well now you can mark this off the list of things we have to do together.'
That may not be the exact words of what was said but you get the point. We all
got a pretty good laugh out of it :) It seemed 'plausible' after a long day of rafting
for us all to go to the first mexican restaurant we found on the way home and dig in!
Family rocks!
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