This weekend we went to our first Intermountain Healing Hearts Heart Camp.
I have been so excited to go to this for months!
We got there in pretty good time and started to unpack our things to set up our tent. After Kollin got the tent all laid out, he realized that there were no tent poles! You would think how OCD we are that the poles would have been with the tent.
He figured out that a while ago he had taken them out of the bag with the tent to get to something else and forgot to put them back in. Woops!
So he drove back home to pick them up and hoped he would make it back to camp before the canyon got locked.
Luckily he was able to make it back with about an hour to spare and we were able to get everything set up pretty quick after that.
Tanner even liked "helping" Daddy set up the tent.
That night we had dinner, played bingo and minute to win it, and watched a movie.
I had put Tanner down to sleep before we went to bed and he did so well and went right down. But when Kollin and I went to bed he decided it was time to wake up and play.
At first we figured to let him wander around the tent and he'd go back to sleep when he felt like it. But he started throwing anything he could get his hands on at us. I would try to snuggle him in bed with us but he would just scream and cry and I didn't want him to wake up the entire camp. Eventually I just stuck him in between us, held him down and sang "5 Little Speckled Frogs" to him about 20 times before her finally went to sleep. I tried all lullabies that I knew and he didn't want to hear any of them, but "5 Little Speckled Frogs" worked. Who'd a thunk?
Once he was asleep, he was out for the rest of the night. It was heaven!
It had rained pretty good that night and the next morning was beautiful.
I asked some of the other tent dwellers if they heard Tanner the night before and they said they really only heard that rain. Phew!
We had breakfast and started to clean up camp.
This boy Porter just LOVED Tanner and took him on a ride in his wagon. He loved it.
Then the parents had a symposium with a couple of people from Primary's that gave us some great information about what is going on up there. There is a new program that is being implemented for heart babies that have very critical defects. And also we learned about some financial options that we can do to be able to help our kids with disabilities their entire lives.
They had some fun crafts for the kids over 3, so unfortunately, Tanner had to come to the symposium with us.
He got pretty bored and decided to go on a walk with our cute little heart friend Mason.
These little heart kids are so stinkin' cute!
On of our families also brought their puppy up there (but shhhh, no pets allowed). So she was our Heart Mascot. Her name is HEARTly. Perfect, isn't it?
She was a little nippy, but Tanner didn't seem to mind. He loved her.
We had lunch and then cleaned up everything else.
And we took a liquorice break.
After we got everything packed in the car, Tanner was so worn out from all the fun he was out cold about 5 seconds after and the entire drive home.
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