Trevor + Kendra = Forever

My brother Trevor married the lovely Kendra in August. We were not able to make it to the wedding, but they had an open house in Idaho Falls the next day. It was an enjoyable reception, my job was to take pictures. I hope I did a well enough job, I would hate to not have captured the event properly. Congrats you two, welcome to the family Kendra we are excited to have you.

The two love birds after the ceremony

A family picture before the reception started, not easy to get all 6 little ones to cooperate!

My handsome husband all dressed up

Hanna insisted on Shawn & I having our picture taken together, which I am glad she did I like how the picture turned out.

Aunie & Papa, Oregon, and Boise

Clayton and Mekenna were able to go spend the first 2 weeks of August with Aunie and Papa. The first week was spent on a road trip and the last week was spent in Oregon. It sounds like their two weeks were full of adventure and great memories. I can't recall all that they did, but they visited Yellowstone, rode the train to Portland where they went to a big museum, and they visited their uncle Jason and aunt Christianna. Thank you Aunie & Papa for the valuable time (& I am sure $) you spent with Clayton & Mekenna.

After their two week trip we planned on meeting them in Boise, Idaho to make the exchange. We met Aunie, Papa, & the kids on a Friday night. We sat up and visited and them went to breakfast with them in the morning, but Dan (Papa) had to get back for work so that is where I journey with them ended.

We had planned one last summer activity before school started. We thought it would be fun to go to Roaring Springs a water park in Boise, and it was fun but very cold out. This was mid-August and for some reason a cold front swept through the area for the weekend. It was 70 degrees which is very cold for a swim park. We would hustle to the next body of water, because the water was warmer than the outside temperature. Even though we were freezing we had fun. We went on every water slide that we wanted to at least once and some a couple of times, and spent a lot of time in the wave pool. I guess the positive thing about it being cold was that there weren't as many people there so lines weren't long.

I didn't take any pictures because I didn't want to worry about the camera getting wet or stolen if we left it somewhere to go on the slides and in the pools. By the way the next weekend in Boise the temperatures were over 100 degrees, just our luck.

Group pictures-- the only pictures I took of the whole weekend!!

September Birthday's

As everyone can tell I am so behind on blogging, but I am trying to get caught up and will do slowly but surely. We only had one family birthday in September--

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS

September 3rd

Sorry it took me so long, hopefully your birthday card made it to you a lot closer to your birthday.

New Truck

We bought a new truck the first week of August. We have been needing one that got better gas mileage, had more room, and a flat bed. After looking in our area we found one that fit every thing we wanted/needed & more, however it was just over our budget. I tried to get the dealership to work with us on a lower price but they refused to budge, so we started looking online. We found our truck online at a dealership in Clearfield, Utah of all places. After seeing numerous pictures on the Internet and speaking to the dealership many times we decided to buy it. Putting a lot of faith into what we saw online and were being told we set up an evening to meet half way for our new truck. Luckily everything turned out okay, for the most part we got what we expected. So now Shawn has his Chevy diesel 1 ton flat bed white crew cab pick up that he has wanted for a long time. He loves it even though it is the basic model. Maybe next time we can get the truck with all the bells and whistles, will see.

I haven't taken any pictures of the inside, but here is his truck. Shawn even built the side rails, which is the best looking part of the truck if you ask me. Shawn does great workmanship on the stuff he builds.

Stained House

One of our summer projects was to stain the house and paint the trim green. It was in desperate need of a new staining. Many gallons of stain and trim paint and more hours then I would like to remember later we finished. The house looks great and we were extremely happy to have it done. Big thanks to my husband who for sure put in more hours than I did. Love ya babe!

BEFORE PICTURES

Shawn hard at work

AFTER PICTURES

Not as many after pictures, but we love the finished product especially the green trim!!

Cook Reunion - Heise

Some how the idea of having a Cook Reunion came up, so I helped my mom notify everybody of it and roughly put something together (this was at the end of July). The main purpose of the reunion was to try and get a bunch of my cousins together, since we haven't done so in quite some time. The reunion was to camp at Heise, go swimming, and to do a family dinner. The camping went well except for the horrendous amount of mosquito's. Swimming was good it was nice and warm out. The family dinner didn't last very long because a huge wind storm decide to break it up, not that very many family members showed up anyway. It was bad enough huge branches on trees were breaking and we were told we would have to leave because of the danger of another branch breaking. Not many of the few that showed wanted to continue the dinner back at camp so most everyone went home. We had fun with those who did show up, but for the most part I would have to say it was not a success. Here are captured moments of the weekend.

Chase & Emmalee really enjoyed playing with Oreo

The many face of Emmalee, such a ham

Gabe was really loving Oreo as well

Cousin Corey and Shawn relaxing in the sun by the pool

Cousin Corey and Shawn relaxing in the sun by the pool

Clayton

Mekenna

I promise you she is part fish, Mekenna absolutely loves the water

I love this picture-- I am not sure what was so funny, but Chase was laughing so hard I think he had pop coming out his nose. I love seeing Clayton's face in this picture.

Brooklynn was playing with small branches from the wind storm. You can see by her hair how windy it was getting, and this was calm compared to how hard it did blow.

Chandler & Mekenna

Oreo in the camper

Oscar in the camper

Cousin buddies relaxing in the camper

My mom & Teagan

Gabe - he is proud that he no longer has training wheels

Kayla, Teagan, Brooklyn, & LaRaye (my mom)

Finley Reese

Clayton

Hanna & Chris

Mekenna & Clayton playing with their Nintendo DS's in the camper, it that really camping?

Teagan also had fun with Oreo

Thanks to all of the family who did show and the fun we had!

Grandpa & Grandma Terrill Reunion

In July my Grandpa & Grandma Terrill had a family get together at their new house in Jackson Hole. We gathered and had lunch, visited and enjoyed each others company. Shawn had to work so I went for a few hours, but we also had plans with friends the evening so I had to get home for that. I didn't do very good at getting many pictures, but here is what I did get.

Chase playing croquet with his cousins

Gabe playing as well

Chandler taking a time-out to smile for the picture

Emmalee wasn't feeling very well so we got out the portable DVD player to watch the Wiggles

Trevor explaining something to Gabe & Chase, perhaps about the game of croquet

Cody, Kevin, & Trevor playing an intense game of croquet

Hanna & Finley- ready for a nap

Chris & Finley - enjoying a little nap on a nice summer day.