Enjoying Each Other

Well, we had a great time with Charity's family in Lava hot springs, Here's some pic and a breif walk through what we did.

It was an 11 kid camp out every night in th living room at the conference center.

Statton, Kenya and Nick Statton, Mia, Maddie, Nick, Chandler, Kenya

Which made for some good snuggle time.

Ty and Elijah, Then Maddie and Kylee

The place we stayed was right next to a small river that you could rent tubes and float down, it looked pretty harmless, but Charity and Kenya got dumped half way down and could not stay above water for about a minute. The water slowed down and we were able to recover. Kenya however will never touch a tube or a small river again, charity has a sprained finger from trying to pry Kenya off her to get her back into the tube. Tadd and the other "adults" decided to go farther up river where there was rumor of a 10 ft water fall you can go over. After about 20 minutes Tadd came back with a bloody head and ear, Bob had a bloody back and head, and everyone else had many scrapes and bruises. Apparently no one told them you should not try to act 16 if your not. Everyone was bandaged and babied, then they went back up to try it one more time. Do we blame this on the upbringing or loss of brain cells over time.

The next day we hit Lava Hot Springs water park to see what other things on our bodies we could damage. Scott and Elle attemped the 32 foot diving platform and Tadd got a mid air shot.

All the sain people just swam in the pool and hit the waterslides.

Then on the last couple of days we stayed safe and Ben made a great treasure hunt for the kids which Sarah provided pirate tatoos for I'm not sure which was more fun, the hunt or the treasure itself. We followed the treasure hunt with some sushi made by Chris who was in Japan for 2 years and perfected Charity;s favorite dish, California rolls. Fireworks and a historical tour through the ancestors cemetary to end the whole sha bang. Bringing a close to a crazy, but fun family reunion.