Jaden's Birthday Weekend

Saturday night we swung by the hospital to visit Mommy. Her hard cast was put on on Friday and she is doing very well. She has graduated to a blue star on her door. That is the code for being able to do most things without assistance (though supervision is still required.) She is even getting around on her walker a little bit. She doesn't seem to enjoy it quite as much as Sunil does... of course she has to do the work herself and he still gets a free ride.

After the hospital we went on to Sheela's soccer game. It was not one of their better showings but we enjoyed seeing Sheela back in the goal (much more than she enjoyed being there I'd guess). Neither of the regular goalies showed up and neither did most of the normal front line. With Sheela in the goal and only Kelzie taking shots it was rough.

On our way out of town we actually let the kids set up the portable DVD player. It's pretty rare but it was going to be at least a ninety-minute drive all at one stretch. I wanted the kids to be good and drowsy when we got to the campsite. I didn't realize it was going to be a quarter mile hike in to the site and I needed the kids to be alert and shlepping junk like the rest of us.


Then we went on up to Lake Ray Roberts. There are a couple of State Parks up that way. We camped at Isle du Bois. The weather was a little bit too warm for actual comfort (until around 3 am) but it was bearable after midnight or so. The location was beautiful, we were right along the shore in the trees in a very secluded "primitive" spot. The original plan had us staying in the RV area with the pop-up camper and A/C, but those spots were already booked. So we didn't even take the camper.
We went over to the playground/swimming area early the next morning to stake out some prime spots for Jaden's party. We had the entire playground to ourselves for a few hours before it got to be too hot. I expected more kids and thought that we should be close to the playground. I don't think any of the kids that came were playground age (except for Sheela and Sunil and they were over it by the time the party started). We spent most of the party swimming in the lake of building sandcastle's with Brenda and Jaden.