Our Fab Summer Vacation and happenings!

Okay so it seems like ages since I have posted on the blog! Thanks to Crazy Cam she helped out with the posting while on vacation by dedicating a song to our family! That was very sweet and cute! (See below in the last posting for the song)! Well June and July was a rocking busy summer time for us! We have absolutely had a blast this summer! My brother came down to visit before he headed to South Korea for work( military assignment) and brought my two beautiful neices with him! We went to the Woodlands aquatic center and for $10 had a day full of watersliding and mini lazy river! We had a family BBQ and THEN was suprised because my cousin Karl came from South Korea (stationed with ARMY) and he actually got leave to come down to Texas so we had a grand time!

Then my family (minus Matt due to work) and my brother, nieces, mom and dad all headed for a day at the beach! LOVE THE BEACH! (see second slide show).

WE had about 2 weeks to recoup and then pack up to go on VACATION!! Every 2 years we head up to Utah/Wyoming to visit Matt's family during pioneer week. We first went to visit some long time friends (Sophia's second mama!!!) the Ericksons - they used to be in our Church ward before moving back to St. George, UTah (Totally under protest from me) We hung out with Amy and Renvic with their kids/Ryke,Rakelle,GJ,Ridge. We got to see a championship little league baseball game and they smoked their competition (BIG rivals with Cedar City) went swimming some more(that seems to be the theme with our family every summer!) Then we headed to Kaysville, UTah to stay with Matt's brother and our sister in law Nathan and LIz! The best ever! We had a house full of girls! They have 4 we have 2~ Then to Matt's parents in Freedom,Wyoming (Star Valley)I used to always tease Matt because accross the street is Idaho they live on State LIne Road! So I would always call him Wydaho! Every year Matt's family gets together during this time in Wyoming to go to the ball park in their ward and have a dutch oven cook/potluck dinner then they do a candy drop with a small airplane for the kids where they load it up and zoom by and drop candy out of the airplane the kids run around and grab it all up..Later that night they do fireworks. This is all done in celebration of the Mormon pioneers coming into the valley (Utah) and settling in and making it possible for us to be there~! Well everyyear some familys can not attend but this year we did however, we are missing Matt's younger brother and wife and 3 kids (his wife just had a baby!!), then Matt's sister Christine and her 4 kids where not able to be there. SOO lets count the numbers shall we!! In Matt's parents house (some of us in cabins up the road)Matt is the oldest of 8 children so in attendance that weekend (minus the ones above we had: 14 adults, 19 children running around at one time!! AND that is not all the family in attendance!! YIKES. What a legacy! That was going on Saturday 25th, On Monday me and Matt went on a white water rafting trip on Snake River! We had a blast! Of course that was AFTER I got slightly nervous and puked my guts up in the bathroom from sheer nerves! But we did have a blast after I saw that we were going to have another family athat had 7 and 9 year boys I knew I would be okay! After spending time in Star Valley we head back to Kaysville and by that time we had the original 6 girls plus Matt's sister kids 2 boys and 1 extra girl.. We had the GRAND opportuniity to take the girls to the temple!! They had an open house and the girls got to walk and tour the whole temple !! AWESOME experience for the children!! Need less to say we all had a great time and we hardly EVER saw our own 2 kids even though we were all in the same house! THANK GOODNESS FOR BASEMENTS!!! AWESOME! Thank YOU SOO much to Nathan and Liz and girls for housing us on our vacation and eating all your food! AND too all the other familys Ericksons and Reane and Melvin for letting us hang out and get to catch up on old times!