Where Have I Been!!!

Or, Should I say where have I not been!!! We have had two very crazy weeks here at the Turley house. It all started with the 4th of July... First off I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the 4th of July!!! It's one of my favorite holidays! My Grandparents, Aunts, Uncle, Cousins, Parents, Siblings and their families all got together and spent the day in Menan. Menan, is a small little town about 20 minutes outside of Idaho Falls - It is the perfect small town celebration! Dunking booths, fish ponds, yummy food and a small fun parade that the kids love because they get a ton of candy! We have gone the last couple years and have loved it! Then, after that we all headed back into Idaho Falls and up to the Shilo - it's a hotel on the river- My Parents get a room there every year because the fireworks are launched right down from there so we have awesome seats for that. The kids swim and we always have a yummy dinner and treats there too!

Saturday July 5, my Niece Kaylie was Baptized and the family all got together after that for another fun day of yummy food (are you seeing a pattern here with the food! Family gatherings=good food!!) and a croquette tournament.

Sunday July 6, The Turley's arrived for the Turley Family reunion! James' Mom does a theme week for the cousins and this year was Cowboy Cousins!! She had them decked out in cowboy attire and they got to go and ride horses, play cowboy games, learn know tieing, learn about snake bites and much much more! They spent a day playing water games and spent a night out in the tent with Grandma and Grandpa! McKay was lucky this year because his Birthday was on the 9th and he got to have quite the celebration with the family. They all spoiled him pretty bad! For his Birthday he wanted to go to Ross Park (a water park), eat at McDonalds and have rootbeer floats!!! McDonalds is a treat around here - I'm not into the whole happy meal thing!!! But, try figuring out how to put 5 candles into a rootbeer float!!! We ended up taping them on the cup!!! We ended the family reunion with a surprise Baby Shower for James' Sister Wendy! We had been planning it literally for months and it was so much fun to see how surprised she was. We are just so excited for them!!! They have one Son Jackson, who is 10 and have been through so much to get this little boy here - It was a true reason for a big celebration! We had a lot of fun putting it all together!

After the shower we took off With Jason and Kristin and their family (James' Brother) and headed up to do some camping on the Grays River. It is such a beautiful place!!! We spent Saturday in Jackson Hole, WY and headed home on Sunday!!!

So, as you can see it has been quite the busy two weeks! Plus, we are busy this week loading up again!!! We leave Saturday for 2 weeks camping at Redfish Lake!!! Lots of good memories are being made!!!

Blogger isn't letting me upload my pictures so those will be forthcoming!!!