Cousins Camp 2014 (Phone Pics)

Idaho Falls Youth Arts Festival--painting, made monster feet, played toilet bowl basketball, begged for candy from all the vendors

 One of many trips to Geraldine's bakery for ice cream and peanut butter bars.  

Taking full advantage of Mer's fun new backyard.  Tess and Maur are playing dolls together. 

Sunset view from Mer's back window.  Seriously.

Raspberry crepes.  Need I say more?

Girls' trip to Ogden temple open house, Chuckarama, Aquarium, fun hotel and Mormon Women's History Initiative Conference.  Ambitious, aren't we?

Claudia Bushman at the conference.

Murdock cousins arrive--Dipsy & Papa entertain the kids for a whole afternoon.

At capacity Rexburg Rapids turns into a carousel, splash pad outing, with a little stomp rocket to round out the evening.

Owen went for a dip in his backyard water feature.

The kids and Uncle Ryan get all their energy out at Blast Off.

Cousins in matching jammies made by Aunt Reen.  And evidence of ongoing house projects we worked on at Mer's: sanding and staining her oven hood.

Cousins' camp was the day before.  All the cousins, but note that Liam and Reece are wearing the wrong shirts.  So we basically stood no chance of telling them apart.

  Kitty under the bridge.  Drew's not in this picture because he insisted on watching the "kitty" do his job.  He was very concerned with the kitty, how it sleeps, where it lives, etc.  I don't really understand this because I'm pretty sure he understands that the Kitty is Papa.  Huh?

Cute shirts, fun activities, wild stuffed animal hunt--all planned by our amazing Dipsy!

We tried a new water spot.  Coldest water on the face of the earth.  The adults were getting frostbite on their toes.  The kids didn't want to get out.

After all that, Dipsy and Papa were willing to take the older kids for a overnight trip at the land.  They are the Energizer Bunnies of grandparents.

Tess & Lauren reading in the trailer.

They even took them canoeing the next day (they keep going, and going, and going).

And motorcycles rides when they got back.  They were pretty beat by this point, but Drew would never forgive me if we left Idaho without a motorcycle ride.  Or three motorcycle rides.

Home again.  The kids did pretty great until we landed.  Then Tess broke loose, and the great wall of tears flowed down.  She misses Idaho, her grandparents and all her cousins.  Who can blame her?