Other stuff - LONG post but there are pictures!

We decided last weekend that we needed to get away so we went to the family cabin in Fruitland.  We went up on Friday night, and came home on Sunday, it was SO nice to get away for a few days. 

                                                 Our 3 sons, waiting to cook hot dogs and smores

 

Will discovered some red ants by the fire that were hauling either a tooth or claw of a bird away.

                                Matthew wanted nothing to do with picture taking, shocking, I know!

                                                                           Cutie Pie!

 

We got these HUGE marshmallows for smores, yeah they were a bit too big to work with....

                       They were kinda hard to eat because they were so huge, so they were MESSY!

                                  He's part frog, but seriously have you ever seen a cuter little bum?

 

Finally got a good one of him!

We also went to the Kennecott Copper Mine two Sundays ago, the boys thought it was pretty cool, and we liked it because it was free admission! We forgot to take a picture of the actual mine, oops, it can be seen from space that is how big it is, if you haven't ever been there......

This is the bottom of one of the wheels from the trucks that work in the mine

 

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Both Andy and I remember a time that you could climb on the wheel, and I remember that it used to look SO much bigger to me..... Both the actual mine itself and the wheel.











My entire family came this past week, my mom has 3 sisters, 1 lives in Colorado and 1 lives in California, and the other lives in Utah, so we haven't all been together for about 7 years (that was the last time we got a family picture done too) So everyone was here including my two cousins who are in the Air Force, so we had a fun-filled week, we went to Hollywood Connection, got family pictures done and had a BBQ on Monday, swimming on Tuesday and then most of the girls went and got pedis and went shopping on Wednesday, then today we went to lunch, it was a lot of fun to spend time with and see everyone.  I am the oldest grandchild at 30 and the youngest grandchild is almost 9, there are 8 granddaughters, 3 grandsons and then my 3 boys are the great-grandchildren.  My grandparents have been married for 51 years!! Here are a few pics...

 L-R Me, Abby (Co.), grandma, Lyndi (from UT, currently stationed in Missouri), Claire (CA), Dan (UT), Sarah (CA), and ShayLee (from UT currently stationed in S. Korea)

Abby and Andrew

I will post pics once we get them back!