Soda Springs\Blackfoot Idaho

My grandparents and aunt and uncle have a cabin up in black foot Idaho, and every year we have a family reunion up there. We left on Thursday and came home Sunday, it was so hard to come back home to real life after a long weekend of fun.

We went up a day before everyone, we helped my grandpa get the boat and the jet skis down to the dock.

My grandpa just turned 80, he such an amazing person. He can't sit still he is always doing something.

My kids loved riding the jet skis down to the dock

My kids favorite part of the trip, the four wheelers. Mine too.

The double bike.

Sitting around the campfire eating chips.

Boating

The annual water balloon fight.

The water balloon my brother in law is holding is the one that got me soaked:)

So funny story, it was my cousins little boys 1st birthday while there, and all the kids thought it was funny to get into this bag. Jace just kinda looks creepy to me lol.

Clint and brayden riding the peddle boat, the guys took turns giving the kids rides.

Brielle & Jace

The family photo op time, we took individual family pictures, grand kids, great grand kids, and a group shot.

Grandpa & Grandma Kelson

Most of the great grand babies.

Most of the grand kids.

My nephew brayden was the biggest sport and took my kids for rides again & again.

It was mine and dustin's 8th year anniversary on the 15th, we didnt really get to do anything so maybe an iou is due.
On our way home we drove past the new temple being built in Brigham city. We have driven by a couple times, it's so neat to see it's process my kids thought it was so cool.

4th of July Festivities

Every year it's the same schedule on the 4th. We start the morning off at the Riverdale parade, then follow the parade to the park for games, and socializing.

The kids dressed in their red, white & blue.

My mom lives the street over from the parade so we just park at her house to avoid all the traffic. This picture cracks me up, check out Megan's face....what a grouch lol..
We lay out blankets the day before, and this year my brother hooked us up with his tent for shade.
Tayler, Ellie, Madison, Brevyn, Megan & Jace
Catching the candy

Brevyn swinging at grandmas.

After the park we all went to Burger Bar then back to our house & ate lunch, the boys played ball, took naps then headed back to grandmas for a bbq. After the bbq we walked up to the park to watch the fireworks.

This mask was passed around and i think everyone got their picture taken with it.

Daddy & son

Blue eyed Ellie

Poor brev was so tired, he slept right through the entire firework show

Jace with his glowing hat and stick. Every time i tell him to pull a funny face, this is what i get...which is fine cause i love it.

Tayler and shalise pulling funny faces

Watching the fireworks

After the fireworks, we walked back down to my mom's and had our own firework show by my brother. Thanks c.j.

We had a few of the aerials, which were awesome.

Then it was to grandmas backyard we went to roast mellows.

mmmmmmm.... smores!!!

It was a late night, but it was totally worth it. The 4Th is one of my favorite holidays i look forward to it every year. From picking out the kids outfits, the parade, seeing old friends, food & fun. But my favorite part is being with my siblings:)

Heart Camp (Camp Hawkins)

This year i found out about a camp that was started last year, it's called Camp Hawkins a camp for heart kids and their siblings. It was named after Dr. Hawkins that did Megan's open heart surgery when she was 11 months old, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He was able to attend last years camp but sadly he passed away a month before this years camp. There is a day camp, or a 3 day camp and we decided to try it out by doing the day camp this year. They have Dr's on site and a huge staff which was amazing. The girls had a blast, and we will for sure be doing this every year.

It's in tooele and it started at 9a.m. so we had to leave pretty early, Dustin was so nice and drove us girls there then took bubba to lagoon and drove all the way back up to get us by 4p.m. It's held at Camp Wapiti the family who owns it lets them use it for free.

They started off by letting the girls make there own name badges. And put us in our group we were the "Crazy Daisies".
Then they sent us to the playground until registration was done at ten.

If you know my girls you know they can make a friend anywhere, and very fast. They had made friends with all the girls in our group before we got started.

This was our group of girls with their 2 leaders, Tricia & Meig, they were so awesome.

They rotated us to different activities every hour, the first was a super fun game called park ranger. A few people stand in the middle and they are the park rangers then the people on both sides run and try not to get tagged by the park rangers(who have to stand still but can reach out their arms) then the last person touched wins.

Then they Tye dyed shirts, which the girls absolutely loved. the shirts turned out super cute & i haven't taken a finished product picture yet. OOOPS!

Then it was lunch time. Mac & cheese, hot dogs & watermelon.Then it was the girls favorite hour of all, swimming.

All the girls had a blast playing with everyone.

Then it was more games. Another fun game ill have to remember to play next time with a big group.

The girls thought it was neat they had treats and drinks with there names on them.

Our last rotation they made their own trail mix.

They gave the girls a bag when they left, it had a t shirt, cookies, crackers, treats & drinks. They got spoiled, treated like princesses.

They have a heart camp for families in August which we hope to be attending.