Well if any of you have been wondering where in the world I have been, we left last Wednesday for our annual "Chick" family reunion. It was out on the West Desert this year and with the exception of the bugs we had a great time.
This is my Aunt Pat and Uncle Dave, they moved to Cleavleland around five years ago from the Salt Lake area. They are visiting with my Grandma Wanda's brother Jean and his wife. This was my first time meeting them and it was fun to hug someone who grew up with my grandma.
This is Aunt Jeneil with my sweet niece Charity.
My beautiful mom! Happy Birthday Mom!
Uncle Chase with Luke!
This is my Uncle Pete, graciously showing us his "Duh" look, one more time for the camera!
LOL Thanks Uncle Pete!
Here is Grandma Kathryn with Charity!
Kenzi with her little sidekick, Charity!
Here is Grandpa "Chick" with my dad in the background.
Here are a few of the fun times we had:
Four Wheeler riding,
Bean Bag tossing! (Grandpa Chick and Uncle Jim, Chase and Trent above)
This is our family performing our skit! It was about the "blockheadism" that runs in our family! LOL! You had to be there! LOL!
Climbing!
Believe it or not this is an OLD grader we found almost at the very top of a mountain.
Mine Exploring!
There are old mines all over up there. This particular cave went back quite a ways. Chase and I were not very brave and so were at the very back of the crowd. When they got to the end of the mine shaft and seen the bat, needles to say, we were the first one out!
No reunion is complete with out sitting up late around the campfire!
Star Gazing was fun! The sky was so clear! We were wishing we had our telescope.
We got a lot of good laughs out of our hairdo's and dirty clothes. But Jacelin's picture tops them all! LOLLast, but definitely not least, was the hunting that was going on:
Yes, even Jacelin learned that those sneaky reptiles can be fun! She found a Horny Toad and made it her pet for about two days while we were there. She made it a cage and then tied a rope to her cage so that she could pull her "pet" with her every where she went. There were tears when it was time to go home and she had to let it go. Below is a picture of her pulling her horny toad along with her.
Now for the major league hunting expeditions:
Jax spent 90% of his waking hours walking around with his face to the ground finding all kinds of critters, Horny Toad, Lizards, Beetles, and..... well I will let you discover for yourself his other findings!
As we were leaving to come home he come running with this ever so cool lizard. It looked like it had leopard spots except it had orange ones and the underneath of his tail was all orange. We had to take some quick pictures before he set it free!
Hope everyone is having a great spring now that the weather is starting to warm up a bit!
Love you all,
Amy
7 comments:
Amy,
It looks like you all had a GREAT time! I wish we could have been there. I know it would have been more fun than all the work I've put in this week. This two weeks are the necessary part of the pageant that are not necessarily the most fun. I have been doing alot of learning and alot of reorganizing so that things run more my way now. I only have three more days this week to fit costumes and then it gets easier for a couple of weeks... until it's all over and I start on the laundry! LOL!
I love all the pictures of Jax's lizards and spiders. I don't like spiders but the lizards remind me of California. We used to find little geckos running about the house all the time when I was on my mission. Anyway, I am glad you shared so many fun pictures.
Velda said your parents had a hard time getting there with lots going wrong with the trailer and truck and tires etc... I hope that they got all fixed.
You should come and watch the video on my blog(just turn off the music list so you can hear it good). It is amazing. It really gives us insight on how we can look at our own lives and circumstances with a positive attitude no matter what is happening. A friend shared it with me and I really enjoyed it so I thought I would share it with others.
Well, have a GREAT day... I have to go back to getting my laundry done since this is my ONLY free day each week to get it done right now.
Love you guys,
Mimi
Wow what a great post! Looks like lots of fun! Made me want to go camping! In my trailer of course! I will never camp in the desert in a tent after seeing all those creatures Jax caught! Oh my goodness! What a kid! Tell him I will be having nightmares tonight ;)
Love you all!!!!!!
Oh and wow sounds like the house is coming great! I'm getting so excited for you!!!!
did you see i was picking my nose in that one picture! =D thats funny!!
trent
Trent,
LOL! I didn't even notice that! I had to go find what picture you were talking about! Then I laughed and laughed. Were you doing that on purpose, because Jax is pulling a face? It looks like you two were just goofing off for the camera.
Well it looks like you had a great time our on the Desert. Dont you know that is all little boys are ever going to do when out camping, Finding critters. My boys do that in our back yard. We have now had a racaoon in the yard and yesterday Jacob caught a little bird. Boys are so much fun.
Blog is looking good. Check ours out it sould be updated later today.
Jeff
Amy,
Enjoyed the pictures. I noticed Trent picking his nose the minute the picture popped up. How funny!!! We did have a good time even if it was hot and it took dad, Jax, and I all day to get there. Oh Well, you can't have everything go perfect in life. Altough it would be nice!! (How do you spell "altough"?) I wish we would have gotten a picture of dad with that stupid block on his head. That was so funny!! LOL!! You had to be there is right!! Did you know that Jax tried to sneak the trantula home in our truck in that stupid ice cream bucket. Dad just happened to look back there to make sure the trailer was hooked up correctly and there it was. Jax was not happy that grandpa made him turn it loose. But I am glad he did. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing that there was one of those critters in the neighborhood. LOL!! I'm being serious!!! Love, MOM
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