Summer Travel ... 1800 Miles

From our house in Hyrum, to a night in Idaho Falls, to the ranch in southwest Saskatchewan, to visit Grandma and Grandpa in Cardston, Alberta, to a family reunion on Flathead Lake near Glacier Park in Montana, back to Hyrum is 1800 miles. Our kids are excellent, well-trained travelers. Even Carly did great. We did have to stop a couple extra times to feed her, but she was a great traveler.

Nunn family photo

We had a really fun time. We went swimming in Cardston at the river and at the Cardston swimming pool. We had a tea party with Grandma and rode the pony and the horses. My kids loved hanging out with their cousins. They love to play in the horse trailer and on the haystack.

Taylor, Jill, Kaela, Hanna, Julia posing on the haystack

Lucy riding Grandpa Buck's pony, Blaze

The family reunion was so fun. It is a Gwilliam Family Reunion of descendants of Martha's grandparents. When we first got there, it seemed like the gathering is getting too big (122 people and like 32 kids under the age of 5), and then it poured rain for half of the first night which doesn't make for pleasant sleep in a tent. But by the end of the 3 days, we had laughed and cried and had a great time. It is truly a quality family. The place where we had the reunion was awesome, lots of room, they cooked & cleaned up all of the food, there was a really fun place to play in the lake, no mosquitoes, beautiful view, etc.

Grandpa Buck defended his Wrangler Water Skiing Champion title. He had water skied in wranglers at a family reunion 18 years ago. He made a new buckle out of a pie plate and then water skied in his Wranglers again. He rocks. What a cool grandpa.

Grandpa Buck water skiing in his Wranglers.
(modified water skiing since there were no skis)

There was a really fun blown up tube called a blob. The first person would jump onto it and crawl to the end. The next person would jump off and it would shoot the person at the other end off into the water. My 11-year-old niece blobbed me, so I didn't go very high in the air before going into the water. But it was a fun time.

Austin jumping off the tower onto the blob

Kaylynn jumping off the tower onto the blob

Summer Photo Shoot

I decided to try to be the photographer and take pictures of my girls to put up on the wall in some matching picture frames I found on clearance. We took some quality pictures in a park in Logan and at Spring Hollow Campground up Logan Canyon. Trying to take pictures of 4 girls is an adventure. Carly was either asleep or not happy to be getting her picture taken, plus she had a blowout. Lucy had to go to the bathroom many times. Lucy's shirt was torn into two pieces by the time we got home. Then as we were coming out of the canyon when my cell phone got service again, Austin called and his car had died and was sitting in it waiting for us to come and get him.
But to look on the bright side, I did get some pretty cute pictures.

Hanna

Jill

Lucy