Pioneer Trek 2013

This is the second time my husband and I have been a “Ma and Pa” on a handcart trek. I feel like we were much better prepared to parent teenagers than we were the first time.

First of all, We were able to remain focused on the kids and what they needed instead of being focused so much on ourselves and our own experience.

Second of all, Blueberry Pie is 13, so we have more experience as parents. Our first trek, our own kids were age 8, 6, and 4. We were still parenting noobs at that time.

My good friend Shelley took care of our kids while we went to Trek.

I was pregnant- just like last time. But this time they decided that starving trekkers the first day was unnecessary, so that helped me stay positive.