Total Bliss!

I feel like our life's have been turned up side down lately. Josh has been working out of town during the week, and since I have 3 baby sitting kids during the week it means we do a lot of staying home! Which means on the weekends we have to cram everything we need to get done into just one day. So it is usually a lot of Josh staying home with the kids while I run errands. Or me and Josh passing each other handing off the kids while we try to squeeze everything in. So you can imagine how excited I was for a long weekend away in the mountains with nothing to do except the occasional (and I do mean occasional) face wipe down, and no where to go!

Heap Reunion 2009

We went up early Thursday morning and totally enjoyed our family and the outdoors! Here is a little (oh, ok a lot) of what when on!

There was a whole lot of this going on! Oops! I think I was suppose to be watching him while his mom was gone on the quad! At least he had fun right! This is my adorable nephew Bryte!

I think he was afraid he was about to get in trouble!

This is Rylenn making the world famous Witches Brew! I actually don't really know what Witches Brew is, I just know I made it when I was a kid! It's a mixture of mud, water, leaves, and anything else that you might think would go good in it. The best part is, you mix it in the hollow of a log! (this is the cleanest I saw her all week, it must have been just after that occasional wipe down!)Ok now this was a funny story! My nephew Brig had been counting down the days till he could get up on the mountain and shoot himself a chipmunk! So my cousin Colton took him and his son Mason out hunting several times a day, and they always came back empty handed (he was using a BB gun, so I think most of us knew his chances were small.) Well a couple of days into the camping trip Brig leaves to go hunting, and comes back with this little guy! We were all shocked! Colton said he has no idea how it happened! He said the chipmunk just kind of fell out of the tree near Brigs feet. We were all laughing and joking saying that the poor chipmunk saw Brig coming and decided to just end things and jumped! But we didn't say that to him of course we all congratulated him on having the best shot around! He was pretty proud! I couldn't believe it! Talk about a dream come true! This is Brig with his hunting face!

Haydenn just enjoying being outside! And for those of you wondering, yes she did start to walk right before we left, but the bumpy ground didn't help her at all. So mostly she just crawled and was a filthy mess the whole time!

Thanks to my in-laws who so graciously let us take up their 2 quads. There was a whole lot of this going on. Everybody else had there quads to, so it was just nice to be able to join in on the fun! On the quad is my nephew Hyrum then Tucker then nephew Bryte, my brother Cam is driving and Rylenn is in front.After that comes a lot of this! Since we barley got any rain, it was so dusty. So any time you went out on the quads this is what you came back looking like! Cameron covered in dirt!

While we were there I took some family pics of my sister and her 3 boys! They are so stinkin cute! I love these guys!

After I took pics of Brandi and the boys, these two little rascals wanted me to take pics of them!

These two crack me up! They can be the best of friends or the worst of enemies. Thankfully most of the time they are best friends! They were so cute together all weekend and had a blast!

Rylenn was in heaven playing outside all day long! Someone please remind me why we live down here in this heat, where the majority of the year you have to be cooped up inside!

Here is that famous face that I love so much! Tucker with those gorgeous dark eyes and all those freckles, although in this pic those freckles are covered with dirt. Even with all the dirt he still melts my heart!

I can so remember doing this with my Dad when I was a little girl! Riding the bucking bull! He grabs ahold of your hands and feet and then bounces you up and down usually on a couch, but your lap works to. He tells them they are on a bucking bull and after a couple of bucks. He tips them over and says you got bucked off! Haydenn loves to do this with my Dad, I think she could do it all day long!

I think this pic is so funny! I have no idea what she is doing, I think I told her to say cheese and this is what I got!

No this isn't real! But Tucker had just as much fun, scaring everyone with it! Crazy kid!

Here is a group of us doing what we did most of the week and that is play Scum! We would play for hours on end. But just a word of warning, Scum can bring out the most competitive side in anyone! Me included! Those were some serious games of Scum!

Every year Emmys birthday falls over the Heap Reunion weekend. So she always gets to celebrate with all her cousins. This year I was a little lazy,(or as I like to think of it, as a little creative) and didn't want to spend hours in the camper by myself wrapping presents. So we sent Emmy and all the cousins on a scavenger hunt all over the mountain looking for her presents! I think the kids had a really good time. It was so funny to watch them run from place to place, like they were about to find gold or something. After they found all the gifts we came back to the camp site and had cake and played "Freeze Dance" to Emmys new Taylor Swift CD. Here is all the cousins getting ready to play. I love how Bryte is coping exactly what Emmy is doing!
The kids played so hard all day long that by the time the sun went down the kids were dropping like flies! All you needed was to get them to sit still by the fire and that was the trick, out they went! It seemed like Tucker was always the first to go!

This is my cousin Kashley! Always willing to pose for a picture!

Saying good bye. This is always the worst day! This is Emmy with her two most favorite people in the world, Brinley and Kashley!

By the last day everyone is pretty much exhausted. This is Hyrum laying down on the toy haulers loading ramp!

I love this picture of Bryte! Just being himself!

My little sister Sawyer and my cousin Crew! There are best buddies! They think they are to cool to pose for a picture, it was like pullin teeth to get this one!

This is my cousin Erikas little girl, Holland. She is so cute! Her and Haydenn are really close in age. This year they both pretty much just stuck by their moms but hopefully in years to come they will be great friends!

These girls had a total blast all weekend! They would play in the tent for hours at a time, coloring and rocking out to music and just being girls. I'm so glad Emmy has so many girls to play with. They are making memories that will last a life time. Jayden, Saylor, Kashley, Emmy and Brinley.Just like every other year, we had a blast! Can't wait to see everyone again next year!