Family Reunion #2

Since this entry is about the Nunn Family Reunion, I will add in our visit to the Young Nunns in Wyoming before the reunions. They moved to a new house since we were there last, so we got to see their new place. I loved the huge trees surrounding their whole yard.

We had a really fun visit...
eating steak cooked over applewood in the fire
swimming at the Dayton Pool
Austin left very early every morning to help Les at the Padlock Ranch
watching a movie on the side of the house
roping the dummy in the backyard
watching the dog training expert

Hanna and her buddy, Hattie

Taycee, the cowgirl

Lucy, Hattie, Hanna, Carly at the Dayton Pool


Nunn Family Reunion

Buck's brother and sisters held a family reunion at Beaver Creek Lodge. It was the perfect place. We each had our own hotel-like room, there were 2 kitchens so we could cook our own meals, and a big grassy area for the kids to play in without worrying about them being too loud or getting lost. We had family from Massachusetts, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, California, and Canada. Austin and I were in charge of this reunion, and we were super happy with how it turned out.

We rented canoes and took them to Tony Grove Lake. We were worried about going because they dug snow out the Tony Grove campground the week before with a backhoe. We thought the water might be super cold, but it was really quite pleasant and lots of us actually played in the water. It was so pretty and the wildflowers were all in bloom.


Who else would go canoeing in a long sleeve shirt, Wranglers with a buckle, and cowboy boots? Only Les (I guess Buck would probably do that, too). We say, live a little. Put on some summer clothes:)

Notice Austin is in a short-sleeved shirt with shorts and water shoes. He is a really good canoe driver.

McKensie, Taycee, Carly and Lucy after swimming

The Canoe Watchers (oh, look what Buck is wearing:)

We enjoyed a very entertaining Nunn Variety Show (not talent show).

First, Lynn and Tracey had a funny act.

The KidZone Band performed a couple songs. They rock.

Hanna performed The Deer Hunt by Larry, the Cable Guy. "And just when I thought I'd done the stupidest thing a man could do, I surpassed it. I took my wife deer hunting..." We found this awesome hat at Big R in Great Falls.

Nunn siblings - Lynn, Buck, Suzanne

First cousins

Second Nunn Cousins

We enjoyed Smores on the campfire while hearing stories about Grandpa and Grandma Nunn. I hope John and LaDelphia were watching their posterity!

Family Reunion #1

Jill

Randy & Carol's posterity

Funniest cousin of the reunion - Capri



My Sisters

We had 3 Family Reunions in a row this year. We were in charge of 2 of them so we planned them in the same location during the same week. Then my family planned our family reunion for the same time since we were in the country.

So our first reunion was Waite Family Fun Day (WFF) as it is called in email planning.

We stayed in West Yellowstone at the Brandin' Iron Inn. Then we spent the day with some of my family in Yellowstone. We had a fun day visiting geysers, hot pots, waterfalls, and Old Faithful.












I guess we were worn out by the end of the day waiting for our dinner to come.....
We stayed at a great cabin in Island Park at Mack's Inn (thanks to Matt & Jeanette). We started with Lindsey going to the hospital to get stitches in her ear after jumping off the bunkbed.

On Sunday, we went to church where we had our own private viewing of Sacrament Meeting in a side room. They had tvs in every room plus the chapel, gym and old chapel were all full. They had 3 Sacrament meetings that day and had a total 4,200 people attend that day. That's a lot of righteous tourists:)

Later that day, we went on a tour of Johnny Sack's cabin and walked around at Big Springs. We also took a family picture in our awesome matching t-shirts (another thanks to Matt and Jeanette and Diana). We shot off a candy cannon and shot paintball guns (thanks to Tristan). Then we had a family home evening of remembering the hand of the Lord in our lives. Families rock.







The next day we went on a super fun canoe ride from Big Springs down Henry Fork's River to Mack's Inn. We enjoyed a grand water fight in the middle of our journey.






For the night's entertainment, we went across the road from our cabin to Mack's Inn Playhouse to see the Phantom of the Grand Ole' Opry along with a dinner. We laughed and laughed.

Summer

We love summer!

We had two of Sarah's kids (Carter and Annie-Jo) enjoy our first week of summer with us. Sarah was at girls camp for the week, so we had cousins stay with us.

One afternoon, Dixie called and said, "Let's go to the creek." So we did. We piled in the back of Dixie's truck and went to the creek. It was super fun. I want to go again.



Next main event: The Farmer's Market
Jill decided she wanted to make flip flops to sell at the Farmer's Market. Sehe worked for weeks to make them, and she sold 8 pairs at school the last few days of school. But not so much luck at the Farmer's Market. Mostly older folks come to browse the market, not young kids who want cute flip flops.


Hanna made pony tail holders and caramels to sell. The caramels almost sold out.


Lucy has been asking for months to have a lemonade stand, but we don't really live in a good lemonade stand location. So she sold lemonade at the Farmer's Market and sold 44 cups of lemonade. She was cute.

CANADA DAY

July 1 is Canada Day, so we started the day of celebration at a parade in Raymond.

Grandpa and Grandma in their winter coats and Grandma with her purse.
One of the coolest entries of the parade

After the parade and lunch at Grandma's, we went to Payne Lake for some quality fishing.

Uncle Rod is the avid fisherman.

Carly was an excited fisherman, too. She kept reporting to Rod every few minutes that she hadn't caught anything yet.

We went for a walk up to Payne Lake Lodge.
The hills were alive with the sound of music.



Then more fishing and hanging out.


Last, we went to the park in Cardston for a party and fireworks. Hanna's school choir started the party by singing O'Canada.\
It was a fun Canada Day. Not quite comparable to the 4th of July, but still great!

Waterton
Austin spent the week at Joe's ranch helping him brand and stuff. The girls and I headed on our first trip of the summer to Waterton (along with a few thousand other people.)
We played at Red Rock Canyon,

hiked to Blackiston Falls,
and then played at Coppermine Creek.