August Family Reunions

The first weekend of August, we had family reunions for

both my mom and my dad's side of the family.

I wish I had gotten more pictures.

Friday evening we spent with my mom's side of the family. We had so much visiting with grandma, cousins, and aunts/uncles.

Saturday we spent at Payson lakes with my dad's side of the family.

We borrowed a canoe and that turned out to be big hit!

My kids were able to make some new friends with family they didn't know very well before.

We are looking forward to the next reunions!

Stewart Falls

We took our kids on a hike to Stewart Falls on July 24th.

It was beautiful and not too hot.

Austin tripped over a branch along the trail.

He gives us a little scare whenever he gets hurt.

He seems to hold his breath for a long time,

and appears to almost pass out or have a mini seizure.

He did this on the hike.

But he always comes back in a few minutes.

He can answer questions about who he is and such.

I'm not sure if this is something to worry about or not.

Um . . . Abby is almost as tall as me.

She has surpassed my shoe size by quite a bit as well.

4th of July

We stuck around a little longer in Wyoming so we could be there for the 4th of July festivities.

They have a great parade that is only about an hour long and they throw out candy . . . we can only go to parades that throw out candy!

For the evening, we went up to the top of a hill that overlooks the city, had dinner with the ward the Ben's parents belong to, and watched the fireworks from there. The weather was so nice and we all had such a good time!

Wyoming Rodeo

A couple days before the 4th of July, we went to the Cody Stampede Rodeo.

Abby was here too . . . but off playing with cousins during the picture time :(

Austin stayed with Nana at her house along with some of his little cousins that were too little to enjoy sitting at a rodeo for hours :)

I still can't get over how young some of those girls look doing the barrel racing . . . I would be so scared to go on a horse that fast . . . but I guess if you grow up riding them it isn't a big deal.

Family Reunion in Wyoming

Ben's mom turned 60 last month. So the whole family headed out to Wyoming for a party!

Ben has 10 brothers and sisters . . . and 7 of them and their families were there!

Such a fun time.

Abby Turns 11

Abby turned 11 last month.

She had been planning her party for months!

She did a good job too. It turned out so fun!

She wanted an "evening party".

So we had it in the evening. We served hamburger and hotdogs, had a huge slip n slide going on, along with a sprinkler under the trampoline.

Then we came inside and watch 16 Wishes (I usually don't like Disney Channel movies very much . . . but this one I totally recommend watching!).

Later we had chocolate cake with strawberries and peppermint ice cream. You actually can't buy peppermint ice cream right now . . . at least not anywhere I could find.

So Abby and I just made our own.

Happy Birthday Abby!

Shadow Mountain

Abby was able to go to Shawdow Mountain this year.

It is a two night/3 day camp for fifth graders.

Here is a picture with her and her pack.

I guess she was a little embarrassed about having such a big pack . . . and wanted to take a suitcase? Camping?