Lovell for a Family Reunion

Shortly after we returned from Mesa, I packed up again and the kids and I headed to Lovell for a slightly extended stay. Joel had to stay in Green River and work. :(

We stayed with Brenda in Cowley, which is always great. My Mom's house was stuffed to the brim will everyone from out of town.

We did lots of fun stuff while we were there. We went bowling, took a trip to Five Springs with a short stop at Devil's Canyon overlook, had a foot race, the kids played in the park behind my Mom's house (a LOT), we checked out a local bakery, made some trips to the honey candy store, played with cousins, enjoyed the family reunion, played games, talked, and did a lot of hanging out.

I have a lot of pictures, but not all of the ones I'm posting are from my camera, so they are somewhat out of order. I think most of the pictures are self explanatory, but I'll probably caption a few here and there.

I'm guessing Adrienne got a strike? :) Side note, one of the funniest things I've ever seen took place right here in this bowling alley that's featured in the following pictures. There's a chance that a certain sister (Laura) had an incident with a bowling ball falling out of her hand on the back swing (is that what you would call it?) of one of her bowling attempts. I might have laughed so hard that my abs were cramping. Good times.

Jenna and I. Do we have matching bowling styles?

This is what Audrey looked like almost every time I bowled. She didn't like being handed off.

Mary and Adrienne like their s'mores with melty chocolate. Delicious, but messy.

Jenna and James were trying to catch the cotton in the air.

Mary challenged us all to a foot race after a recent experience with James. It was hilarious! Jeanine (my cousin Allen's wife) beat us all. Go figure. :) We were looking spiffy and excited while we were warming up!

Allen gave interviews afterward. :)

After the main foot race a challenged Jenna and Will to a race. I beat Jenna, but just barely. Then Mary grabbed me and wanted to race again so Mary, Jenna and I raced. Logan got some finish line photos (that small tree was the finish line). I thought they looked pretty cool, even though I look pretty not cool in them!

The family reunion started out at the park, but after lunch we had some crazy weather blow through so we moved over to the church gym. Here's my Mom and all of her siblings.

 These were taken on Sunday after church. We had to have an  updated sister picture!

And back to the reunion. Joel had fun playing some horseshoes.

We were happy that Joel was able to come up for the reunion. When he left on Sunday he packed up my Mom's piano (now my piano) in the back of this truck and brought it home for me. Thank you! We had so much fun being with all of our family. I think this is the first time in many years that all of my sisters and their families have been to the family reunion. I miss them all already and I can't wait until we can all get together again.

Mesa for a wedding

I'm very behind on my blogging this summer. My niece, Erin, got married on June 7th and Joel took a week off of work so we could go to Mesa for the wedding. Do you want to hear the terrible thing? I brought my camera, but didn't take one picture! No joke! We stayed with Mary and Logan in Phoenix. On Monday, the 3rd, we were able to spend some time with friends in Mesa. We went to Peter Piper Pizza with Reyn and Heidi's family for lunch, hung out at their house for a bit in the afternoon, and had a barbecue and swam at Reyn's parent's house along with Jared and Andrea's family and Eric. It was great to see them again!

The rest of the week was spent basically getting ready for the wedding and reception. Mary made the wedding cake and I was able to help with that (a little). It turned out amazing! The wedding was Friday morning in the Mesa temple and the reception was Friday evening. It was beautiful and I think everyone had a fun time.

My kids were so happy to be able to play with cousins that we haven't seen in too long. And it was wonderful to see my sisters again. The one thing I miss about living in AZ is being close to the sisters that live there.

Baseball

Baseball has been over for awhile now, but I wanted to add the boys pictures because I thought they were both so cute! They had fun, and we'll probably sign them up again next year.