4th of July Camping Reunion

We have been gone from Thursday to Monday afternoon from a very adventerous camping reunion for Phil's family.



Thursday was a calming setting up our tents and camping supply day. We got there Thursday afternoon. It was nice to start to see everyone and realize how many people were going to be there! We knew with the annual reunion being over a holiday it was going to have people there, but there were lots of people there seeing that most everyone had a 3 day weekend and could come this year so that was way fun! We also realized that we would be caking on the bug spray the whole time. Sadly the boys still got bit horribly and we ended up going against dr. recomendations of the no deet for kids and gave them lots and lots of our bug spray! Their poor faces were bitten so bad!

Friday Phil went golfing in the morning. I didn't go because well I have three kids to take care of so we went down to the beach of Bear Lake while we waited for him to get done. Jordan was going to go golfing with Phil but last minute changed his mind, which is ok I was wondering if he would get bored with an 18 hole course.

Peyton loved the sand and mud. He was fine just watching the kids and playing on the beach. He just didn't want to go in the lake. Him and his cousin Boston are shown in the picture playing in the sand, they loved those shovels!



Jordan loved the water of course! I am so glad for swimming lessons, I think it helped him to just run in and go by himself. When Phil got there so did his cousin Janae and her family with their boat! So Jordan got to ride on the boat and the tube.



And of course Audriana was a fish as always! She loved the water, it took a little bit to get her to stay in her thing she wanted to crawl out to swim herself in the lake. Hopefully that attitude won't change in the next few years.

I had also drove the car to the lake and found myself with a flat tire. So Phil had to take the car to town to find everything closed after we were done with the lake. So we had the spare tire until Monday when everything opened. That was awesome. It also was the start of much car trouble for Phil's parents.

We also got a huge rain/hail storm that night and flooded a few people's tents.

Some more random pictures of our nephews and niece at the lake.

Saturday was the 4th of July. So we headed down to Paris, ID also by Bear Lake to catch the huge pancake breakfast and parade.

After we got settled down we prepared to sit for 2 hours to wait for the parade. The boys loved the parade. It took a little bit to realize that they had to get out there to catch the candy. The kids to the side would just run in front of them to get it so they caught on fast that they needed to be faster!

In these pictures you can see Peyton going on his car. They were taking the cars and going down the hill, best entertainment of the evening. Him and his cousin Boston were just great buds the whole time and practically inseperable.

Audriana with her cousin Hadley in a few of these pictures.

We tried to get a picture of everyone. The key word is try.

Some more random pictures of the reunion. You can see we eat well when we go camping. Poor Phil's parents had too much car trouble, nephew Boston was chilling in our car with the air conditioning and found Phil's hat so I couldn't resist. Sorry Camille-Phil told me I couldn't edit out mosquito bites it was part of the reunion... there is also a picture of him doing the chicken dance. Cute baby Ty belongs to Phil's cousin Megan. And bottom pictures showing how much fun some of the boys had at the campground!

Sunday we were so glad for the break! We didn't have parades or lakes to go to. The kids were coughing and not feeling well. Poor Peyton was not doing well with the mosquito bites so the break was great for them. We took a little hike to the river for the boys to see, painted some rocks, ate smores and just sat by the campfire.

Peyton likes to give Audriana food and sometimes it shows on her face what he gives her. This is a mixture of licorice and jello.

Jordan got to pass out the money for Grandma's store one day. He was so proud. The store is a huge highlight of the reunion! The boys loved picking out stuff with their pretend money. One day they had glow sticks so at night the boys were playing light sabors. Jordan doesn't really watch Star Wars so he doesn't know much about it. The older boys were playing so cute with them. Jordan said, Mom I was playing glow sticks with the fat guys! I sad bad guys? No mom the fat guys! I figured he thought that is what they were saying! Peyton came home with a ton of cars from the store. He loved to get a new one each time it was open.

Some more painting rocks, riding bikes and a huge lifesavers were all the preteen girls who loved to hold the little babies! I didn't get a picture of them holding Audriana, but I have to say they were a huge help at the campground just playing with her she loved the attention!