Starting off the month with a family reunion at Bear Lake in northeast Utah. My parents had left a week earlier for their mission in Ukraine and 2 of my siblings weren't able to come. But this is 7 of us with our kids.
We've had a family reunion at this house 3 years ago and labeled it The Fun House because it has 9 bedrooms, huge media room, pool table, video games, slides next to each set of stairs in case you would rather take a "slide" than the stairs, and downstairs has a sunken trampoline, play structure (swings and slides), basketball hoop, and putting green.
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| I know this is a little blurry, but it captures my game-obsessed siblings. |
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| Front row of the media room: Brooke, Ashlyn, David, Austin |
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Above this set of stairs is a lttle "play cubby."
Rachel, David, Anna, Naomi |
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The "Play Cubby"
Naomi, Brooke, Ashlyn |
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Silly cousins
Brooke, Ashlyn |
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| View of Bear Lake from the deck |
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3 of the 4 cousins born within 6 months of each other
Suzy, Gabe, Eli |
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Bear Lake's beach
Front: Luke and Jessica
Behind them is Aaron, Naomi, Molly, Megan, David, Zach |
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| Zach digging in the sand |
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| Brooke says "Go Ducks!" |
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| Baby Gabey "looking up" to Brooke |
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| Kids watching TV in a hotel we stayed in on the way home with 3 queen beds |
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| Gabey - 7 weeks old |
Our neighbor, Kayla (age 11), put on a week long dance class that Brooke really enjoyed:
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| Brooke, Ji-Su, and Kayla with the ribbons |
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| Brooke on the left |
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| Brooke with her award doll and ring pop! |
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| Brooke and Kayla |
Our annual Intel Summer Party in Vernonia:
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| They had a display of exotic animals and this tiger was gorgeous! They were serious about "please keep strollers back" because we got too close with our stroller and the tiger roared and jumped up at the fence! It scared us to death! The zookeeper said rolling wheels confuse the tiger. |
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| Brooke on a pony ride. Her face painting is of a butterfly. |
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| Zach playing mini-golf. |
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| David playing mini-golf and a "cactus." It was a cowboy theme party. |
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| Brooke driving an electric car. |
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| Brooke climbing the rock wall. |
I didn't see Nicholas and Zach much, they were off having fun on the gigantic waterslide, buffet of food, media tents, bounce houses, pogo sticks, craft room, collecting lots of prizes, etc.
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| David (age 4) and Gabe (10 weeks) |
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| Gabey and mom |
Before summer ended we went to Sky High (trampoline place):
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Zach, David, Brooke
You can see there are even trampolines on the walls!
The kids loved bouncing right into the foam pit. |
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| Zach went to Seatlle with Grandma for a couple days to get spoiled and to visit Aunt Sara and Uncle Tom. |
Gabe and I flew to Spokane for a couple nights to celebrate Grandad's 98th birthday with him. It was also a birthday treat for me and a nice relaxing getaway.
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| Gabe and me with our cute Suzuki rental car |
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| Grandad with his newest great-grandchild |
I enjoyed catching up with cousins and aunts and uncles too:
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Bob, Sam, Dalena, Darrell, Steve, Tiffani holding Kayla, Chris
Kate, Grandad, Denny holding Megan, Loretta
Elaina, Evan, Jared, Ben |
