Fuller Family Reunion

So we are already gathered up north. We might as well cram all the activities in at once, right??? The Sherwood Reunion ended at noon, which gave us just enough time to rush back to the cabin in Pinedale and give Wavee a quick nap before showing back up at my Aunt Kathy's house at 3:00 p.m. for just our Fuller Family Reunion. The bumpy ride up the Pinedale rode made for some funny pictures in the car. It looks like Wavee is sleeping, when in fact she is caught in the middle of saying, "Ah--choo!"




For this portion of the 24th of July weekend, my sister Jennifer was in charge. And nothing says family reunion like watermelon and sticker wars, right?!?!?!

Who dared go after my baby???

The kids played a game of wooferball and jumped on the tramp.

As usual for MY family gatherings, Court just made faces at me...(and I will give you three guesses as to what he is saying!)

And then came time for the pinata...

Waverly didn't seem to get in on the excitement of the mad dash for the candy once it busted open.

But instead preferred to rely on Daddy for her sustenance...

We were lucky to not lose her to the main highway. That kid NEVER slows down.

We finished things off with a Mexican Horseshoe tournament---I was beat out 'promptly' in the first round of elimination! And then everyone skedaddled to make it to a showing of Beauty and the Beast. Delainee spent the night in town to see the show and we met up with her again the next morning at the parade in snowflake. Now that is what a small town parage should be. Way cute!

After the parage we headed back to the cabin to clean up and we headed back home from our jam packed week in the mountains!

Aaah, I cannot tell you how happy I was to be reunited with MY bed!

Sherwood Family Reunion

So after our fun camping adventure we headed up to Pinedale to TAKE a shower first of all!!!! But then the jam packed 24th of July weekend began. Thursday evening kicked off the Sherwood Family Reunion at the Taylor rodeo grounds. My mother is a Sherwood. One of 12 kiddies. I have 72 1st cousins--72!!!! I don't normally take the time to head up to Snowflake/Taylor for this thing since I have been married. But this year my mother was responsible, and so we were STUCK!

Thursday night festivities included dinner and a dance. The girls thoroughly enjoyed themselves.


Laetner, on the other hand, was merely suffering through until time for COOKIES--which we then sat and ate double fisted.

Friday festivities included a grave site prayer at Grandma and Grandpa Sherwood's gravesite, followed by a carnival of sorts. We had prizes and guessing games, and raffles, and booths of ALL sorts of crazy activities. That portion of the 24th of July Weekend ended after lunchtime, but that was NOT the end of the fesitivities for that day....

Camping at Woods Canyon Lake

Admittedly we are NOT campers. But for some reason, we have been getting the itch for it and talking about just DOING it. So since we had got Court a snazzy camp stove/ oven for Father's-Birthday, we figured we should put it to use.

We left Monday morning (July 19th) and headed up to Woods Canyon Lake for our 1:oo pm check-in. Camping has check ins???? We had a great little campsite that backed up the national forest and was VERY strategically located near both the bathrooms AND the potbable water spigot---NICE!

We had quite a sweet set up, and Waverly had NO inhibitions about becoming one with nature around her!!! While the other kids tended to gravitate to some of their 'usual' habits.

Although, Wavee wasn't really cooperating when it came to the nap department.

Can't blame her, it was actually pretty warm in the tent during the day. I was pretty cold the first night in the tent, but the 2nd night was much more manageable---mainly becuz we made daddy sleep on the floor and the rest of us cuddled together on the air mattress. My kiddies are space heaters!

On one of our little nature hikes, Laetner found this cool little fort that had been created against a big rock.

Here is the other side of it--holy cow!

We hiked down to the lake, and the dam, and even went crawdad fishing.

We found some huge rocks that looked like turtle shells, and Laetner insisted we needed to go on TurtleShell a'ventures' in order to find more.

Court decided it might be a good time to ponder the real meaning of life...CUCKOO!

We had a lot of fun, and definitely will be doing it more often. Next time, we just need to pack our bikes!



Aaah, the joys of 2 year olds and camping! Ü

Swim Lessons with Miss Briley

Last summer Miss Judy and Miss Briley decided they weren't doing swim lessons anymore and we were DEVASTATED.

This Summer Miss Briley had a change of heart and opened up her Beach Club to us! Waverly was ESPECIALLY lucky and got to spend two different sessions with Miss Briley (one was while Delainee and Laetner were still doing workshop with me) It worked out perfect for Court to take her everyday. And per ALL my other children she cried EVERY day. Luckily she broke the trend of throwing up in the pool everyday as well--- a trend I am certain that Briley was happy to see broken.

Wavee would NOT stop crying if Daddy stayed to watch, so he was asked to leave the premises! Ü Luckily Aunt Shelby was one of the helpers in the pool and she would give me the lowdown on how Wavee was doing during this first session. Apparently she was told that she could only cry when it was her turn, so she would wait patiently on her pool step, and then sure enough when it WAS her turn she would start squawking. And she just didn't seem to understand the task of going under the water to retrieve a ring at the bottom of the pool. She would just go under water with her eyes WIDE open and just GRIN!

By the 2nd Session, when Delainee and Laetner were able to come, Wavee was "a big girl now!" She never cried, she made it down to get the ring, she walked like a monkey, made it to the side after diving in, kicked and pulled, splashed everyone on the pool step, waited her turn on the diving board, played "wake up Wavee", tasted the water, EVERYTHING! (although she would sneak out of the pool and run around in circles---that naughty thing!)







We don't have a pool, and I am a little shy of the sun, so we don't always get a lot of practice swimming, but this was the summer that EVERYTHING finally came together for both Delainee and Laetner. We had big strokes, and big kicks, and finally seem to have mastered the side breath.







Thank you Miss Briley!

Octa-Mom (Minus One) Over Here

When you look on the side of our house, you would get a glimpse of what you see in many backyards.

A garden caddy.

Pretty straight forward.

Or IS it????


Meet the Ladies...

Big Red, Little Red, Blacky, Spotty, Mario, Luigi, and Sabrina!
(we won't speak of Medium Red---may she rest in peace)
And we have a gnawing suspicion that Big Red is NO lady!




We purchased these chickies as wee little babies during Spring Break and have been loving and doting on them ever since. Court and his brother Dan made them their luxury condo and 8 ft run to hang out in on the side of our house, and we have been waiting around for the end of August beginning of September (the obligatory 6 months) for them to start laying their eggs.

Except two of these ladies must not have gotten the memo, cuz they are laying em at 4 months.

Almost the size of our store bought white eggs, but everyday they look a little bit bigger so I think we will get there.

The proud egg gather-ers...

Laetner was HORRIFIED when we actually cracked them open and ate them as scambled eggs! Ü