O Canada part 2 Matkin Reunion

We celebrated my Grandpa's 90th Birthday with this reunion and let 90 balloons go. We stayed at a church property in Magrath that has a water slide built in the hill. It was a ton of fun despite the weather raining on and off.

Family Trip, O Canada! part 1

We left July 2nd for a fun trip in a borrowed motorhome, more on the motorhome later. We stayed a few days in Tracy's old home town of Raymond, Alberta. Here are some pics from that. I decided to try my hand at some pictures of the kids in my uncle's garden.

Justin

Liz

Ben

Tabi

Caleb

Of course they all wanted some funny ones too.

"Jumpoline" disaster

The tramp we got for the kids at christmas had a mishap. Ben and his friend were jumping on the tramp with water under it. Ben's friend went up and the tramp went with leaving a leg behind. When he came back down, it bent. Luckily we got it at Sam's club so were could return it. Unfortunately, they don't carry it without the enclosure so we had to fork out some more money to get it. We put it up and it was missing a spring. Ugh! We took it down and returned it. Fortunately we were able to get a better one that is now in the yard with lots of use already.

Lehi Round Up Days

We were able to borrow a motorhome for our trip to Canada so we decided to take it on a test drive and took it to stay over night with our friends the Beckstrands then all the kids decided to ride in it over the the parade in Lehi where we hung out at Uncle Mark's business on main street. We have such great memories going the the parade there.

Nibley Days

Tabi and Lizzie particapated in the Nibley City Children's Play. It was Sleeping Beauty Western style. They practiced only 8 times then had 2 performances. It turned out really great. They still sing the songs around the house.

The kids decided at 4pm that they really wanted to ride in the children's bike parade that started at 6pm so we hurried and decorated their bikes with what we could find in the house and Tabi, Ben and Justin dressed up.

Caleb pulled Liz and Allie in the bike trailer for the bike parade.

Justin and Tabi loved their balloon hats.

Justin wanted to do the dunk tank but backed out before he got knocked in the water.

Ben was the first person to do the dunk tank when they opened. Big surprise huh?

Waiting for the parade to start.

We did the 1 mile fun run. Caleb to first in his age group, Tabi took second in hers and I took 3rd in mine.

ben's baseball

Ben's baseball team was 14-1 for the regular season. He got to start learning some great skills which he hopes will help him be a fantastic player in the future.

bike

Justin had a friend over and then is started to sprinkle just before he had to go home and it made this cool shot.