'Joy and Austin's Camping Trip' Recap

Counting On "Joy and Austin's Camping Trip"

• The wedding is less than three weeks away, and Joy is headed to a salon with Kendra to try out hairstyles. Joy tells the hairstylist that her first date with Austin was last August.
• This is the first time Kendra has had her hair styled by a professional.
• Joy has her hair done in a full up-do, while Kendra does a half-back. Afterwards, a male makeup artist does the girls’ makeup, complete with fake eyelashes.
• Down in Central America, Jill takes footage of the Dillards playing outside. At age two, Israel loves food, is very talkative, and is also very adaptable and easygoing.
• Meanwhile, Austin is working on the house with Jed. “We’re probably not going to have the whole house done in two weeks, but I’m still hoping we can have maybe the kitchen and bedroom and bathroom,” says Austin.
• Later that week, the older siblings and their friends (about 20 people total) are packing for Joy and Austin’s joint bachelor/bachelorette party. They plan on kayaking/rafting down the Mulberry River, cooking out, and sleeping in tents/hammocks.
• Joy is adamant that no one “cheats” and brings a motorhome. “In general, our family, when it comes to camping, we enjoy camping with having everything we could ever need,” says Josiah. “Camping in a camper type camping.”
• “We’re less the camping type,” says Jeremy of he and Jinger. “I think we’re more the civilization type.”
• Jana is a little less thrilled about the camping and is glad it’s only for one night, but she is determined to have fun.
• Down in Laredo, Jinger and Jeremy pick out platters for Joy and Austin’s rehearsal dinner. They will be serving fajitas.
• “I guess most people for their bachelor and bachelorette parties, they go do drinking and dancing and whatever else I don’t even know, but for us, we prefer…not as wild [parties],” says Joy.
• “I’m just hoping we don’t flip because it’s a little chilly out here, and that water I hear is really cold,” says Jana.
• Austin flips his canoe on the first rapid. When Joy tries out Austin’s kayak, she flips, as well.'
• When the group makes it to the campsite, they set up tents and hammocks. They are concerned that the trees have poison ivy, so they attach the hammocks to their trucks.
• "It's mixed emotions anytime somebody is getting married in our family," says Jana. "It's going to be hard to let [Joy] go."
• While everyone is sitting around the campfire, Laura hosts a round of the shoe game for Joy and Austin.
• Although the temperatures drop overnight, everyone enjoys the camping trip. 
• The Seewalds go shopping at a thrift store with Spurgeon, Henry, Jackson, and Tyler. Jessa gives an explanation on Tyler. As we have said, he is the Duggars’ cousin whose mom is in a difficult situation. Jim Bob and Michelle have taken him in and now have legal guardianship of him.
• At the end of the shopping trip, Jessa finds some stick horses and rocking horses. Ben would rather not purchase them. He isn’t sure they will fit in the van, and he isn’t thrilled about buying secondhand stuffed animals that are attached to wood and cannot be cleaned. 
• “Whenever you have a disagreement, I think it’s really just important to be patient,” says Ben. “I was trying to think, is this really that big of a deal? She really wants to get these, so [I’ll] just let her get them.”
• “You’re two different people,” says Jessa. “You’re going to have different ideas about things from time to time, but don’t let little things become big things.”
• They end up buying the stick horses and rocking horses.