Visit From Aunt Debbie

I'm so far behind on my posts. Aunt Debbie visited in July and I'm just now adding these pictures to the blog. Better than not posting them at all.

Our old camera bit the dust about two months ago. We finally made it to Best Buy to get another one just in time for the holidays. Hopefully we'll take full advantage of it and take plenty of pictures. I'm hoping to get some other people behind the lense other than me. Not that I have a great desire to be photographed, especially as of late, but it's good to be in enough pictures to know that I existed.

Hershey Park

This coaster went straight up then straight down.

Gabby and Tameka waited 2 1/2 hours to ride.

Memorial Day Camping - Love The Socks

We had a great long weekend with Larry and Barb. Gabby & Taylor looked especially good in their colorful socks.

June's 3rd Birthday

Gabby planned an end of the school party with a few friends. Since we didn't have an official birthday party for June, Gabby suggested we get a cake and have a little party for June at the same time. It was a great idea that worked out great. Here are are a couple of the pictures from that day.

Junie's Got A New Do

The long and stringy hair thing just wasn't working for me, so Gabby and I took June for her first real haircut. This isn't the best picture, but you get the idea. It's basically a short bob. She was very patient up until the last 10 minutes of the cut and then we had to distract her a bit. Needless to say that we had to trim a little bit of uneven hair when we got home. It all worked out in the end. She's as cute as ever.

June The Techy

June loves trying to use the computer. My friend, Dianna, has some old computer games that have puzzles on them. The games are meant for kindergarden children, but June can already do some of the puzzles on her own.

We tried to find some online games for June to try, but we couldn't find the right ones. She still gave it her best shot.

Bonding

What's the best way to bond? Go camping. Today we planned to drop our camper off to get it inspected. We didn't use it last year and figured that we'd have some problems when we tried to hook it up to the truck, but it went great. I said to John, "Wow, there must be something wrong, because things never go this easy." I spoke too soon.

We park our camper at my folks house because we don't have room at our house. Getting the camper out of its spot takes a little bit of manuvering, first forward and then backward onto the road. Everything was going fine until suddenly the truck decided that it wasn't going to go in reverse. I could go forward all I wanted, but reverse wasn't an option. Unfortunately, to get out of the tight spot our camper lives in, you have to back out. I was freaking out thinking that there was something wrong with the transmission. I could see the dollars going out the window.

After trying going forward, then attempting back for about fifteen minutes, we decided to unhook the camper. I didn't know what was wrong, but I thought if we got the weight off of the truck, then maybe we could back it up.

Because of the hill that the camper was on, we couldn't get the camper off the hitch easily. We had to scrounge around my parents garage for scrap wood that was just the right thickness to raise up the tongue of the camper. We were fortunate that my dad has lots of that kind of stuff laying around. Thank you Larry!

When we got the camper unhooked from the truck, I tried reverse again, but no luck. I was thinking that I was going to have to pull my truck as far out of the way as possible and use my parent's truck to put the camper back in its spot. They weren't home, so I called to find out if there were keys somewhere that we could use. They didn't answer. It was getting complicated.

I don't know why, but all of a sudden, I reached down and jiggled the emergency brake. Ureka! Reverse was restored. We hooked up the camper for a second time and backed that sucker out before something else could stop us.

So, we were on our way to the camper dealership to drop our camper off to get it inspected. The only problem was, when we arrived at the dealership, it wasn't there anymore. There was a sign saying that they moved. Of course I didn't have the number with me, but John had his blackberry and we looked it up. We did finally find the camper place and chalked this experience up to our first camping adventure of the season.