The Last of the Cabin Trip

I don’t know why I am in such a not blogging rut, I guess it is finishing up summer and getting back into the school routine-more on that later. Here is the rest of our cabin trip.

Sunday we went to church, it was a very full sacrament meeting! We didn’t go to the whole block, luckily they had sacrament meeting at the end of the block so we were all able to get ready with just 2 bathrooms, quite the feat for 41 people.

Cathy and I took some family pictures for the Burch’s after church-I always enjoy taking pictures of families. It always makes me want to improve my skills and upgrade my camera though! 

The rest of the day was spent napping

Playing games

Matthew is an Angry birds expert now!

Editing pictures and reading

We also did a BIG family picture with all 41 of us. As the grandkids get older and go on missions is it going to be a while till we are ALL together again. So we set up a tripod and got everyone together. Jake was in charge of taking pictures so I got the pictures from him and I haven't done any editing yet on them.

Here’s all the grandkids, 26 of them. Averi was not happy. I couldn’t find Thomas's socks and didn’t think it would matter…I was wrong. Jared is the oldest at 21 and Averi is the youngest, she was 19 months.

the silly picture is always my favorite

Here’s the whole family. Kaylee got in a snit so isn’t smiling in any of the pictures.

The kissing picture..

We broke a fence doing this location

 

I liked this location the best, with the Provo river in the background. Most of the kids were done at this point.

Taking picture of 41 people isn’t easy. I think someone was going to do some Photoshop and swap some heads, I’ll have to get some copies of those.

We started the 4th with a flag ceremony

 

We played lots of games-the dice game & Nertz (I used to be really good and fast, I am not so good and slow at Nertz now!)

Gabe, Trish & Gabby & the Torgerson’s came up. It was fun to spend the 4th with some of my family too.

Gabe looking creepy in the background

Jim & Mike-not really fair that Mike still has a full head of hair!

Jim and Gabe wanted to get in the Provo river. It was FREEZING and really high and had a very strong current. Luckily they made it out ok!

Our little crazy Averi had to dip her feet in the river too. She said, “Burr”.

We did lots of sparklers and fireworks that night and had more game playing. It was a fun 4th of July.

 

We brought fireworks from Arkansas because they are much better than the ones they sell in Utah, they actually go up in the air. Jim and the guys (and Trish) put on a great fireworks show.

Jim with his parents, do you think he looks like his dad?

It really was a great cabin trip. Our kids had so much fun and loved being with all their Anderson cousins. They keep asking when we can go back. We left the next morning and drove to Denver and stayed the night there. The drive home the next day took FOREVER! Kaylee had a bug and threw up a couple of times and we were all just tired and cranky and ready to get home!

The Cabin

The “Cabin” has been in the family since the 1920’s. Jim’s mom grew up going there every summer. It has slowly been added to over the years. Jim and his family went every summer growing up so he has lots of fun memories of the place. A couple of years ago a tree fell on it during a heavy snow storm. Jim’s Uncle Ron and a lot of other family members have worked hard to repair the cabin and even make it a little better.

(Spencer Hale took this picture)

Jim and I haven’t been to the cabin since we’ve had kids. Our kids were so excited to get there. I was kind of dreading the cabin. Our last visit everyone got really sick, it was super hot and pretty miserable. I put on my game face though and didn’t complain. It helped that we stayed in the condo in Park City until Saturday; so I got to go and sleep in a nice bed and had a shower that works really good! Jim and I talked and decided we needed to do whatever we could to make sure our kids had a fun time. That meant not a lot of down time or relaxing for us, but our kids had a BLAST!

Kaylee loved picking the wild flowers.

Thomas trying out the airsoft gun. He really wanted to play with the big guys, but he couldn’t get them to promise not to shoot him so he was content to watch and cheer on Jim.

All the guys ready for Airsoft!

Roman going over the rules and boundaries for the game.

Grandma Anderson had the freezer stocked with plenty of popsicles.

Uncle Jake made walking sticks for the kids. Thomas loved his!

We took lots of walks to the fishing pond.

Saturday we rented a bunch of ATV’s for the day. I only got a picture of Matthew on one. Jim and I took turns going out. It was a lot of fun. I went out with Emilee for a while and we went all the way to the top of a mountain. She drove up and I drove down, it was pretty crazy and fun!

Poor little Averi got pretty dirty at the cabin! She loved it though.

Don’t look too close, you’ll se how dirty and dusty we are from riding ATV’s.

The kids were excited for the campfire and s’mores.

A full living room-our 3 older kids slept on the air mattress together. I think someone ended up in bed with use each night!