The next morning, Tim and Julia brought Olivia down so my older 3 could meet her!! They were so excited to hold her and play with her. She has grown so much already!! We went out to eat yummy mexican food and then hung out at Grandma Nuttalls while we waited for Michael to get back. He needed to make a trip into Salt Lake to get a part fixed for the jet skiis as well as new tires on the trailer...
Once back, we headed up to Wolf Creek-near Eden,UT where Micheal's parents were able to rent 3-2 bedroom condos for the 24 of us to stay in...It's been a long time since we'd been able to do this...It was a lot of fun!! We spent a few days hanging around the condos...there was tennis, racket ball and a large pool for us to all swim in....
We also spent a few days on the beaches at a nearby reservoir. The kids took rides on the tubes and the guys took turns pulling or riding the 2nd jet ski on their own. Found out that according to the rules of jet skiing...we should have only been pulling one person in the tube at a time...You can see in the below pic...top right pic...that we have a rider on the jet ski and two tubes being towed with two kids each...BIG NO NO...HUGE FINE!!
Everyone enjoyed the sun and sand. The kids (and dads) had fun digging out a huge hole...One morning Grandma located someone who was willing to give all the grandkids rides on their horse for a very reasonable fee. Grandpa was a great sport, especially in the pool...
We had gobs of fun playing games, some nights may have been a bit too gaseous, but overall a great laugh!! The girls also enjoyed showing their cousins different things to make with oragami paper. Even Mike & Chris had fun folding away. The morning we left, Kassi realized she had a loose tooth...during the drive, she wiggled and wiggled that little tooth until she was pretty sore. A few days later, she found out that she had a second wiggly tooth!! Not sure if you can tell from the pic, but both the bottom two teeth are a bit off...
Grandma also had several fun projects that the grandkids worked on. Stenciling and thumb-printing a pillow case, gem butterflies, flower clips, and a magnetic family board. One afternoon, after a game of Phase 10 & eating through 1/2 a jug of Jelly Bellys, we gathered the kids together to "feed" them the "discarded, questionable tasting" jellys...perhaps that was a mean prank to play on them...
We spent one morning hiking around. Another morning the guys went shooting...Mike said he was grateful that Spencer provided the ammo, it was the first time he was able to fully load his ammo clip without thinking about the money he was spending...they also spotted a large moose that morning, unfortunately no one thought to bring a camera...
One night we had a fun game of family jeopordy and learned many new facts about each other. One discovery that night was that Nathan's belly could be "inflated" to be as large as Lisa's preg. belly!!
We spent an afternoon competing in family relays and water balloon games. Learned that David can tie water balloons fast but not faster than using them all up in a water fight. Everyone was a great sport and I know the kids had fun!!
Until next year!! Oregon Coast here we come!!
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That really does sound like a fun week! A little bit of everything! I can't get over Kaylee...she is getting so grown up looking, ahhhh! I notice it more in pictures than in person for some reason!
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