A few days after getting back from England, we loaded up once again and headed to Twin Falls, ID for a week long reunion with all of Travis' siblings at a church girls camp in the mountains.
Since Travis didn't go with us the first time, our first stop on the way was to see the Seven Magic Mountains. Let's just say it was 115 degrees and no one was very excited to be outside.
Luckily Idaho was significantly cooler and we even arrived before 2 am! We loved being up in the gorgeous mountains. A curious moose wandered into our camp one afternoon and we also saw some porcupines. One of our first treks was a short hike up to a waterfall.
I love watching cousins who are the same age playing together. I think Nora, Lincoln, and Alvin here are all just yelling at each other. I'm not sure why. Probably because they are 3 years old.
The first night all the kids put together a pretty involved talent show for the adults.
The boys performed several funny little skits, with the littles doing random talents like hullahooping in between.
And the girls performed a dance choreographed by Brooke.
It was an incredibly fun night! These kids are hilarious and worked so hard all day long putting the show together. I loved it!!
However trying to get 16 cousins all together for a picture was a bit of an ordeal, especially after Russell took a tumble (face-first) down the hill after this one was snapped. What a bunch of goofs.
Travis got everyone hooked on geocaching while we were up there so besides several cut-throat games of kickball, we wound up going out several times a day to look for treasures.
Calvin and Benji
Grandma sacked out with baby Kimball.
How to you convince your 15 year old cousin to give you and your cousin a piggy back ride? Just tell him it's for conditioning!
The kids were absolutely filthy at the end of each day -- especially since Nora refused to wear the shoes we brought her.
S'mores make every camp out perfect.
