Reed Reunion

Howdy! These 2 outlaws put on quite the rootin' tootin' reunion! They had a western theme to our camp trip this time and had shirts and bandans for everyone. 

There were many cowgirls present!

Grandma got lots of rocking time with the babies!

We went to the park one day and set up yard games. but the star of the show was the roping cow! My kids all loved roping and were pretty good at it! Carter and Rylee especially loved it and did it nearly the whole time. 

We all got a wanted poster shot. 

Except Carter I guess. 

And there there was Cowboy Chase! So sweet!

We had many laughs and lots of good talks around the camp fire. It was a pretty great relaxing time. 

The ladies!

Everything went gerat except our water day. 

We were trying to get our blown up paddle boards over to the beach area. I was preparing to get off with Rylee and take them to shore. I packed my phone, Rylee's phone, towel, shoes and sunscreen in the bungee cords of my board. Chad came over and flipped my board over to put the fin on the bottom of the board. When he flipped it back over, I realized that my phone probably slipped out! UGH! I was sick. I slammed my hands on the boat 3 times. Realized there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. Turned and stepped off the boat onto my paddle board. I took Chad's phone with me so we could still communicate through the kids phones. 

I was so sad. And so was Rylee. Our phones were sealed in a baggie at the bottom of the lake, still working and tracking and telling me on Chad's phone it was going for a walk! 

Once on shore and everything set up, I told my family my phone was gone. I was bummed! I did NOT feel like boating. So I gladly held this sweet baby so others could go have fun in the boat. It helped holding a baby when I was so bummed. 

It was sort of refreshing to be without a phone for a few days. Sort of. I still kept thinking of everything I probably lost and hoping that my google drive backed most things up. Luckily, I found out, it did. 

Grandma planned a cute craft for the girls and here is Ry's. 

We took many trips to the doc to 'fish.' and it was so cute watching these kiddos lean over hoping with everything they have to catch a fish. 

It was here that Carter decided he was going to be a fisherman! He picked up a pole that Chuck left at our last camping trip and claimed it as his own. He fished...well tried to fish....he learned a lot of fishing lessons, like untangling string from a tree and from under rocks. It was cute to watch him though. 

This is such a beautiful place! 

 And we franticaly bought a gas fire pit thinking that we would not be able to have a fire with all the fire bans going on. We found one the morning we left, because you can't camp without a fire! We found out though that we indeed could have had a fire because they are on government land....ok, whatever! So we used our fire the first few nights and had a real one the last night. Sure love this Reed Crew! We have lots of love and it just keeps growing!

The 4th

 We had a lovely 4th! All except for Chad being on night shift! He worked all night and then came home and ran his 5k! Carter ran also and they both did awesome!

A bunch of Carter's XC friends ran it too. One was dressed as a banana!

We sat in our usual spot with the Eash clan! And we took up enough space that no one dared to sit in front of us! 

Proud of both of these guys! Chad finished in under 30 min and Carter placed in his age group. 

We were promised a fly over from some big jets and they delivered! They were a bit late but it was still cool to see them for a few seconds. They were gone as fast as they came!

Love this guy! 

And America too!

And these kiddos and dog too!

Since Chad had to get to work, we had our fun in the afternoon! We had the Rowley's over to swim and eat and hang out! 

I highly reccomend you get some friends who will sit in floaties in the pool with you! 

That night we did go to fireworks after Chad went off to work. We actually got a pretty good spot and got off the street before it got too crazy! 

We truly are so blessed to be in America! We have so many freedoms and dreams just sitting at our feet. We literaly can reach the stars here. I've realized how fortunate we are after visiting other countries! I love the USA!

Miss Tooele

When I saw that I knew most of the girls running for Miss Tooele, I knew that I had to go! I secretly love watching pagents like this and have been obsessed since I was a kid...not really sure from what, but I do enjoy a good talent show. 

All the ladies looked stunning in their dresses!

Our cute old neighbor won Miss Teen Tooele. That was so exciting for her and us! It's incredible to see the person she has grown into!

Miss Eva from my old cheer team was crowned Miss Tooele! She was a runner up last year and tried again, and won! She's an incredible person! 

The other 2, Makayla and Sage. Makayla was in our ward years ago and came from a pretty sad home life and disturbing situations. She rarely talked and I always just felt sad for her. She has turned into an  INCREDIBLE young lady and has used her trials in life to conquer the world. Wow. I was blown away. 

And Sage, ah! I just love this girl with my whole heart. She has a heart of gold and was also on my cheer team and would do anything for anyone. She was always the first to act when we asked her to do something. She's a true leader and wants to be the Mayor some day! Such a stunning individual. I'm so glad I got the pleasure of watching these girls go far! 

 

Hymas Reunion 26

The Hymas Reunion kicked off for another year! Sadly, this year not many people came for the majority of the time. But we still had fun! It was just our family out in the boat but we had Grandma tag along for the day. We loved having her and I only dumped her out of her chair once!

She even went for a tube ride. I'm sure glad that my kids will have memories like this of doing fun things with their grandma. 

We even talked Carter into a tube ride. 

These girls begged to go to the library so they could have a book for camping. I didn't want to because they usually don't read them. But they both were little book worms and were often found in the hammock reading. 

Kenzie and Chaz's fam showed up for an afternoon. These girls didn't miss a beat and were off exploring and making sculptures out of mud. 

This guy kept up on his running and went for a run around the lake each morning. Which resulted in a tired guy! He sure works hard!

He fell in love with a cowboy hat and had many compliments from all his cousins on how good he looked and that he needed one. He went home and bought one a few weeks later. 

One evening we had a pretty good crew with Chaz's fam and Chase and Hollin showing up. Konnor came for most of the time and Cami and Chuck and Mason were present for the whole time. We really enjoyed laughing and talking around the fire and enjoying a good meal. 

That last night the rain hit! It rained and rained all night and rained some more once we got up. We had to pack camp up in the mud and had a fire going to warm us occasionally...but it was also wet so it was more of a smoke bomb than anything. We were an absolute mess, soaking wet and muddy! I hate wet camping so much!

We did manage to grab one last picture before we left camp. We did have an amazing time and glad we can always go. Just hated for it to end the way it did. I would have stayed one more day to let things air out if the campsite was free, but it wasn't sadly. So we hauled it all home soaking wet and power washed everything. All our camp gear has never been cleaner! I guess that's a plus!

 Happy (dry) camping!