Eyre Family Reunion

Well...I'm sitting here trying desperately to make sure I get in a post this week before we're off to Las Vegas for the weekend (didn't happen, we're back from Vegas...I didn't get the pictures added before I left...but alas, here is the post!). It's a little difficult though because not only am I trying to be a good mom and give my son the attention he needs and wants.....I'm trying to give my niece a little attention for a few minutes so my sister can go to the gym. Somehow, I got them to trade off crying moments for long enough to get them both to sleep though. WOW! Am I good or what?

Anyhow, my apologies up-front for the picture overload. We had a family reunion though, and we do have a son that is still new that we adore. However, I don't know if we'll get over taking pictures of him every five seconds. And why should we?

So...first, my sister from Canada came into town with her 4 kids. We went swimming the first night, then she and her husband skipped the country for a week, without their 4 kids.

Then it was time for a "This Little Cundick Family" vacation. We headed to Bear Lake and spent a very brief night at my cousin's cabin, before heading on to Jackson Hole. To say the least, we were both disappointed. It was way more commercialized than we both remember, and there was no fun shopping to be had! We did find one fun pair of baby sunglasses however!Next, we ventured on to Jackson Lake Lodge to see some wildlife, which cpc seemed to think was awesome!









We stayed the night at the Tent Cabins at Colter Bay. For a first camping experience with a baby, I highly recommend this option. Pmc made a delightful breakfast of French Toast, Eggs, Bacon and OJ.


To celebrate atec's 6-week post-op day, we hiked most of Inspiration Point at Jenny Lake. We had to stop at a lookout a little shy of Inspiration Point to feed cpc and ourselves, and decided it was beautiful enough for us to stop there instead of pushing atec too much. As we finished our nectarines, a chipmunk got a little friendly and took our pits right out of pmc's hand!


We loved the beautiful falls, and cpc seemed to really like the sound of it.....as well as his free ride in the Baby Bjorn. After a quick wade in the fresh water of the lake, we ventured on to the first official "K&M Eyre Family Reunion."





We spent the first evening playing a little "Lasso Golf" and collecting the GORGEOUS wildflowers (hint to my honey: I LOVE wildflowers!).




The next morning we just hung out around the cabin at Island Park, spending time just enjoying each other's company. Cpc took a nap that morning that melted my heart.




In the afternoon we rented canoes and paddled UP-river for an hour. Due to cpc's hunger, atec had to let her little sister help pmc row. :( She had been really excited to row the canoe....guess we'll have to assent to pmc's desire to buy one!

That evening we had a fantastic family meeting, in which the activity was to play charades with 1 prop each....a roll of toilet paper. The first round was to choose our favorite scripture story. Britt's family did "The Tree of Life," Britt was the tree, and Emer was in the "great and spacious building" mocking the partakers of the fruit of the tree! He's a good "mocker" huh? Our family, along with my other little sister's help, did the birth of Jesus by pulling cpc through the bottom of the bjorn!




The second round was our favorite movie....can you figure out what we're acting before they tell you?


That was all the activities we did with Grandpa as part of the fun.


Sunday morning we met Grandpa Don and Grandma at church, and then headed into Yellowstone. It was interesting seeing the park as an adult, as the last time I was quite young, and very afraid of falling into a hot-pot. Cpc did NOT enjoy the in-n-out of the car game. But he still enjoyed the short stints in the bjorn!









Before heading back to the cabin we took a little swim in the Island Park Reservoir. That night in an attempt to find my phone (which was never found) Howie and pmc enjoyed finding lots of coins ($2.00+) in the couches!


Finally before coming home we put all the grandkids together for a good picture!

On our way home we stopped to eat lunch near the new Rexburg Temple.





Once we got home cpc was entirely enthralled to be here! He looked around in awe at his familiar surroundings and slept VERY well!

Now, just to throw him off we're going to go on one more big road-trip before settling down for pmc's school year!