Over Heated, Camping and a Blow Out

This weekend was very eventful for us. We left Friday to go camping with my sister and her husband, my parents and lots of friends. We went to a place called Lake Hegben. It is outside of West Yellowstone. We were going along just find on the dirt road when we noticed our car starting to heat up. So we kept thinking we are almost there but finally we just had to pull off because the car got to hot. We put our necessities into my parents car and left ours to cool off. The radiator fan(some fan) went out and we found out that we were only 50 yards from camp. Well, we got to camp and set up tent so we weren't doing this in the dark. Then, my dad and Johnny went back to get our car just to have down at camp. We had fajitas for dinner that night and the kids absolutely loved being outside.

I was worried all night that my kids were going to get cold but they were fine it was me who froze! The next morning we woke up and had french toast and bacon and hot chocolate. It was so good. The kids just played. JD talked someone into making him a bow and arrow. Which he will not let out of his sight. He loves that thing. Mary collected sticks with Grandma and put them in a pile. It is so fun to see how simple things in life can be so much fun for the little ones. We went 4-wheeling, on a boat ride and just hung around camp. The weather looked like it was changing very quickly and I wasn't to thrilled about the fact to camp in the rain. So, we ended up tearing down our camp and then just sitting around chatting, riding the kayaks and more 4-wheeling. Around 4 o'clock it started to sprinkle so we decided that we should probably take off so we could get home at a decent time.
We were off and as long as we kept our speed up the car would not heat up so it did fine on the highway and we just wanted to try and get home because we didn't want to be stuck in West Yellowstone. We were trying to decide what we wanted for dinner and had decided that we would just stop at the drive-in for some Gladys burgers and spicy fries. We were heading from Ashton almost to Felt when the car started to shake funny. Johnny slowed down and stopped and we had blew out our back tire. Yeah. Here we were on the side of the highway with 2 kids that were ready to be home and a blowout. Our car was packed with all the camping stuff so we unloaded on the side of the road and set the camp chairs up for the kids while Johnny started to change the tire. We were on a little of an incline so the first 2 tries the car would not stay on the jack. I started frantically calling people we knew to see if they could come help. I got a hold of someone and he was on his way. Johnny was finally able to get the car to stay on the jack and got the donut on. We loaded the car back up and were on our way slowly. We called our friend and met him in Felt. He brought his air compressor thank goodness because our spare was not that full so he filled it up and followed us home. I am so grateful that we have friends that we can call in a time of need and they would drop what they were doing to come help. Trust me I was to my limit. And with all the hormones I was kinda emotional. You know when everything jsut piles up and the kids are done and then one more thing has to happen. I was ready to be home and go to bed. We finally got home around 7:45 so I gave the kids baths, made them sandwiches for lunch and put them to bed. I took a very long shower that night and I am glad that it is over and we made it home safely.
We did have a lot of fun camping especially the kids since this was their first time camping. I told Johnny I would love to go camping more since the kids did so well and we just had so much fun with family and friends.