Family Reunion

We went to Idaho for a family reunion on Nathan's side. On the way there we stopped in Utah for a little over a day to see Nathan's dad. Braeden and Ella (cousins) came over to play in the sprinklers and pool outside. While Nathan was on his dad's computer Nathan for some reason thought that his dad was spitting or dripping water on him. It turned out that the ceiling was dripping water from the bathroom upstairs.

Braeden, Ella, and Easto

Dad and Blair.
Blair was out playing with the kids until she got sprayed one too many times with the hose. I guess she was content just hanging out with Dad in the safe zone.

Ella pushing Easton on the swing.
It's weird that Ella is only 6 months older than Easton because she looks like she is at least a year if not two older than Easton.

We took off Sunday morning from Utah to Idaho so we could go to church with Nathan's grandparents. After church Nathan's brother came over and took Easton on Braeden's motorcycle. No worries. Someone was riding with Easton the whole time. Plus is has training wheels on it.

Video of Easton and Uncle Blake:


Easton seemed to have a lot of fun on it. While Nathan was on with Easton he let him control how fast they were going. Easton gunned it and wouldn't let go. Nathan finally had to tell him to let off on the gas. Such a daredevil.

Video of Easton and Nathan:



Video of Dad and Easton:




Video of Blair walking:

For some reason Easton kept having accidents at Nathan's grandparents and the weird thing is he kept peeing on the same exact stair (second from the top stair). It was really annoying but also kind of funny that he was that consistent.

We took the kids down to the river one night to feed the ducks.

Dad and Blair

Easton feeding the ducks. At first Easton kept throwing in whole slices of bread but he eventually figured it out and broke pieces off and threw those in instead.

Video of Easton feeding the ducks:

Blair thought the ducks were pretty cool.

After feeding the ducks we took a little detour to Reed's Dairy to show Easton the baby cows, baby goat, and baby sheep. Nathan and I were there earlier picking up ice cream to celebrate the fact that I passed my written DMV test. I am now officially an Idahoan. Don't judge me Shannah!

We took the kids to one of the local parks. It was a pretty nice park but there were a lot of people and it was really hot so we didn't stay too long. We actually ran into some of Nathan's extended family while we were there.

Nathan went to Utah for a day with his aunt and grandma to pick out some new cell phones for me and him while his aunt and grandma picked up Nathan's cousin from soccer camp at BYU. We actually didn't end up get phones (long story) but while they were gone in Utah Nathan's grandpa took me and the kids to Bear World. We drove through and got to see a bunch of different animals. Easton loved it! There were times when I thought I was going to hit an animals because they were so close to the car.

Grandpa and Easton

Not the best picture because of the reflection.

Tour bus where you could feed the bears bread. The bears would go and stand against the bus.

Easton next to the bear.

Bear cubs getting bottle fed. You could pay $35 to feed the cubs but honestly I didn't think it would be worth it. They downed those bottles like there was no tomorrow. I seriously think those people paid $1/sec to fed those cubs.

Video of a girl feeding a cub:

Grandpa and Easton

They had a petting zoo which Easton really enjoyed.

Easton feeding the baby deer.

Bear cubs. They weren't part of the petting zoo (unless you paid to bottle feed them then you could pet them).

Blair

Easton

They had a few amusement rides for the kids to ride on that were free! Grandpa took Easton on the first ride but then I took both kids on the rest of them. This was Blair's first time on amusement rides. I was a little worried how she would react to them but she was fine. She really didn't have an opinion either way. She just sat there.

Grandpa and Easton rode this one together.

Easton on the train. Blair and I rode on the train too but we didn't get a very good picture of all three of us.

On the roller coaster ride. This ride was a little crazier than I thought it would be.

Easton and Blair. I sat behind them.

We spent two nights at Nathan's mom's house. We took the kids to the neighborhood park just down the street from him mom's house.

Blair on the swings.

Braeden, Easton, and Ella riding the dinosaur.

Actual family reunion was the 31st. Nathan and I didn't really think things through very well beforehand so we actually had to leave the reunion early so we could head back to Cali. We wanted most of Sunday to relax from our 12 hour car ride before Nathan had to be back at work on Monday.

Easton and William.

Blair was supposed to be taking a nap. Actually I had Blair asleep in Grandma's trailer but Nathan was worried that she would fall off the bed or wake up and we wouldn't hear her so he moved her to the pack n play. Of course she woke up the second he laid her down.

Easton all ready to go swimming.

Video of the kids attacking Jarom:

They were all pretty excited to go swimming.

Blair swimming with Aunt Kaity. As you can tell she wasn't having a very good time.

It was definitely a very short trip but as always it was nice to see our family.