"Life is just like an old time rail journey ... delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride." Gordon B. Hinckley

Jul 28, 2011

Happy Birthday Grandma

We celebrated Josh’s Mom’s birthday a couple nights ago and it was a really fun birthday party. Jake and Katie made dutch over dinner and it was super yummy. The kids all played and had a blast as always. Jason and Jess were turning on the sprinkler system to see what was wrong with it and the kids had fun running through the sprinklers every time they turned one on. Josh’s Dad made ice cream and we had rootbeer floats, it was a fun birthday party!!

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Jul 24, 2011

Fullmer Family Reunion

We had my Dad’s family reunion this weekend in Tetonia, on my Grandparents land, such a beautiful place. The weather was perfect, and there were no mosquitoes!! We had a great time, the kids played hard and came home very dirty (which always tells me they had fun). We are staying so busy this summer with lots of activities going on and we are loving it! We are booking up every weekend with something fun because summer doesn’t last long!

Of course Jaxon with Pa Pa!! (Notice the binky in one of Pa Pa’s hands and a capri sun in the other) No wonder why Jaxon likes Pa Pa so much!!

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Jaxon’s first time eating a Cheeto and he loved them!

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Kenna sharing a cookie with Jaxon

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Kynzee Kate, such a cutie!

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Jaxon’s buddy….Uncle Jesse

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Grandma and Grandpa Fullmer (Grandma was busy talking to someone)

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The kids spent hours on their motorbikes, always fun for them!

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We always have a raffle…so much fun especially when I am trying to take care of kids and I don’t hear my raffle ticket number called!! Sorry Monika!! This year we raised $700, we use the money to buy things for the land so that we can have fun when we go there.

These are my cousins Monika and Whitney

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My brothers Nick and Nathan

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We played BINGO with these fun BINGO cards! And I won twice!!!!

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Uncle Kenneth and Aunt Michelle in charge of the BINGO game.

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Emma

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Kenna had these balloons and she was tired of holding them so she ran up to Jesse and said “Here Jesse hold these for a minute” then she ran away and thought it was funny that he was stuck with them. Jesse was not happy.

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So he passed them on to Jaden and Jaden was smart enough to start passing them out to all the kids and eventually most of them ended up in the sky.

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Mindy brought rocks and paint for the kids to make rock creatures, they loved it!

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Nick and Kenneth cooking dutch oven potatoes.

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Kenna got to hold baby Kolby again and she was in heaven, she loves that baby so much.

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Kenna and Taya stayed in the trailer close to Kolby, they were watching every move he made.

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Aunt Mary loving on Kolby!

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Katie and Rodger with Kolby, they are such good parents, Kolby is so lucky.

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I even got some precious time with the sweet baby, I love him so much.

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My sweet sister Katie, such a cute Mommy.

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Uncle Jesse and Karlee. Karlee didn’t know she was sitting on Jesse’s lap because when her Mom set her there she never looked back to see who she was with, if she would have known she would have been screaming!!

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Jesse and Uncle Bill (two of a kind)

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The famous trike that all the kids love to ride when the go to the reunion.

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Seriously the biggest fire ever! Monika was about to get burned!!

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I had to put this picture on here from last years reunion, so exactly a year ago this is how little Jaxon and Karlee were, now look at them….

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Still best buddies!!

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Every year on the way home from the reunion I always want to stop and take a picture of my kids in front of the Tetons but I never stop because the perfect spot is on a hill and we are always pulling the trailer behind us and it wouldn’t be easy to stop. Well this year I drove myself and I didn’t have the trailer so I stopped. My kids were so dirty from playing so hard and their hair was a mess and I mean a mess because of taking their helmets on and off all day, but I took a picture  anyway. It was a beautiful day and considering I made the kids stare into the sun I think it turned out to be a pretty picture. The kids were blinded by the sun and they were not happy with me, but hey you can see the Tetons on the background :)

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It was little better this direction!!

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