Vacay

I am SOOO behind on my blogging. Today I am taking the day to get all caught up on my blogging. You see, it all started about a month ago when we went on vacation to Island Park, ID... A week away in paradise you could say. I'm sure I explain every year that Tommy's family has a few cabins up in Island Park and Tommy has been visiting like every year of his whole entire life... Thats about 30 years mind you (forgive my still making fun of how old young he is!) Anyhoo.. This was a big year! EVERYONE was going to be there.. Well, just about everyone. There were a few people we sorely missed. But, we had a jam packed week ahead of us and it was going to be nothing but fun, fishing, and relaxing! We went to the play mill twice and saw Beauty and the Beast and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.  We spent time with wonderful family eating lots of wonderful food. Tommy enjoyed fishing every second he could. There were some big ones this year too.. A 20-incher I believe... and I heard it tasted delicious! Maddox also really enjoyed catching his "nemos". I am so lame for not getting pictures of all the fishing... I was too busy relaxing!
One day we went into Yellowstone to have a picnic and we were also able to attend sacrament meeting.. In the park, surrounded by beauty. The picnic was so much fun and Maddox couldn't sit long enough to eat.. He had way to many friends to play with! His "cabin friends" couldn't get enough of him either!

Just a few of the cousins he made friends with this trip!

Such a little cheeser

BFFs

This was Maddox's chance to get back at his daddy!

Family (minus pops)

Another fun thing we did was have a mini-"survivor" game. The Richards did an amazing job of putting together all the relays and races. This game included (but was not limited too) canoeing the river, swatting the dads, floating a creek, going under and over, drinking tadpoles,  jumping from a rope swing, and much much more! At the end we were all winners and everyone had a BLAST!

We had one family evening where we played a game. I can't remember the name but two people put on their own life jackets that are attached by huge rubber bands and either person had to try to make it to a corner to get an apple (no hands) and make it back to the bowl. There were some great match ups and it was so fun to watch. 

This was Tommy vs Mickey

Stacey vs Julie

Thats right, Debbie vs Cathy!

Obviously everyone had a great time. Nothing beats family time!

Oh here are a few extra pictures of the Mad Man...

Maddox just chillaxin'

Here he is showing us his "cool trick".

Maddox and Stacey

Cake!

We love making the treck up to Idaho every year... It is soo worth it to spend time with everyone and be surrounded by all that beauty. Oh, and I forgot to mention all the MOOSE we saw this year! They were everywhere and Tommy and Danny had a few close run in's with them! Again, lame me for not having pictures of the moose! But, that was our vacation!