The difference a day makes...

I say this to no pun intended, I state this as pure fact. I also admonish the fact that there is no household quite so blessed as the one when a teenager finds love and starts believing in themself.

Saturday, we as a family were invited up to a co-worker/friends family cabin in Kamas. We have never been to Kamas and this is reported to be one of the older cabins built long ago...Dean likes that stuff. The drive was beautiful, the leaves are already starting to change in the canyons. Echo resevior was such a wonderful shade of blue, it looked clean and wow, it was a gorgeous site. It took us a bit more than an hour to get there, so really, not very long. The tahoe did great even without the 4 wheel drive working (thankfully we didn't need it!). My son, the 16 yr old grump, did not want to go on this family adventure. He was in all kinds of grumpiness when we left and he had been complaining for over a week. We found out, the 15 yr oldest of the friends, did not want to come either. She had been grumping around and doing her thing also. Well, my picture up at the top should say everything. Needless to say, they are both really happy that we "forced" them to come on a family activity and we are very grateful that they both have unlimited text! =] The cabin was fun, just the right size, had a great fire pit with old swing and lots of stumps to camp our rumps on. =] Dave made really, REALLY yummy dutch oven rolls with chicken parmesian...mmmm...and we provided the drinks, the fruit and potato salad. Their 2 yr old, Kelly is a riot! She has no fear! I think she about gave Dean a heartattack maybe oh, 15 times? ha ha ha. Becca kept apologizing and asking if Dean was okay...he he.

They have a son Brandon that is 1 month older than Ben so they had a great time with his bow shooting arrows and Ben's laser pointer....Brandon had left his home, yeah enough said. The other two boys weren't quite sure about Olivia, she fit (age wise) right in between them...so maybe after a few more get togethers they'll decide each other is okay. The kids took the dog and the baby on a walk, the adults tried and almost succeeded in playing a board game and than we cleaned up and headed our ways. It was a great day with awesome friends. =] Thanks Dave and Becca!

Our evening was not over however, for as we approached Coalville we took note of a SUV Navigator that was passing us. It didn't take long for us to start worrying as he literally almost sat in the back of the truck in front of him, kept swerving into the pull off (like to see around them), drove down the center on and off and just generally was drunk. Dean called 911 and we followed him until the UHP pulled him over. Dispatch had asked us to and we dared even get close enough so that we could read his license plate for them. It's not always nice to be so blind >.<. Thankfully the cop that U turned in the grassy middle was very nice and actually saw the drunken driving and could smell the alcohol. That meant we didn't have to stay, didn't have to file a compliant, and Dean didn't have to go to court to testify. I must say, it was a scary occurance! I would be nervous if it were just me but to have my whole family in the car and know the percentages and so forth that occur with drunk drivers here....I just wanted Dean to back waaaaaaaaaaaaaaayy off and stay that way. We all cheered when the UHP turned on his lights and pulled the guy over...=] it was like one of those scenes in the movies where the good guy wins=].