On Wednesday the 30th of August we found out that the Behrend Family Reunion would be held at our (Idaho) house Saturday the 2nd of July. We arrived home Thursday night August 31. It was a mad dash to get everything ready in one day. Thanks to a good brother things went pretty smooth. Reed dropped off tables, chairs and an awning before we arrived home. I got all the grocery shopping done Friday morning and Tony got the yard work done. Tyler was a big help and had gone over earlier in the week and done some of the yard for us. Saturday morning is the Behrend golf game. Tony went to play and the kids and I got everything set up. I have wonderful kids, Tyler, Brianne, and her Tyler came early and helped get everything done! (Mike, Jess, and ShanTay were not able to be there until late Saturday night) I didn't get pictures of the day :( (to busy running around making sure everything was taken care of)
Hannah flew home with us. She did pretty well, but it was a really LONG day of flying. We had two lay overs, but we had to hurry to catch our next flights. Of course we had a long way to go each time. She had so much fun playing with all the other kids at both the Behrend and the Miles get togethers.
Sunday July 3 (Mikes birthday) we had two get togethers to attend one at Tony's mothers and one at my mothers. Here is how the day went...up early to prepare food, get everyone ready to go, (fast) drop off food to Grandma Miles house, go to Grandma Behrends house, (Tony left earlier to help with cooking at his moms) eat , talk, enjoy family, off to Grandma Miles, finish getting ready for meal, eat, talk, enjoy family, (Sunday no annual water fight this year) clean up, head home, DROP. I don't know where my head was but sadly I didn't get any pictures of this day either. It is a crazy weekend but I can hardly wait for next year.
Saturday morning Brianne thought that she need an apron, that is when she saw Hannahs in the closet. It actually fit her better than I thought it would.
When we got home Tyler showed what he had found earlier in the week. A Killdeer nest on the side of the garage. They hadn't hatched yet, but Saturday afternoon bam! there they were, all hatched. The mommy wasn't very happy with us for finding her babies. We tried not to bother them to much, but it was hard not to go look. She finally moved them , but it was not a good spot right in the drive way. I was worried that the would get run over so we tried to move them. Not a good idea they just started running out in the road. We kept and eye on them for a while and the mom finally got them all together in a safer place.
Monday the 4th we went to Wolverine. The one thing that Hannah said that she wanted to do while she visited us was go fishing. We just went up the narrows and enjoyed some quiet family time.
The guys just hanging out in the shade.
Hannah fishing in the stream. We did see one fish.
Cooling off in the water....Until they saw a snake.
Fishing wasn't any good , but playing in the water was.
While Hannah was in Ohio we shopped for things to put in her fairy garden. When we got to Idaho we went to the greenhouse and got the plants and container and this is her creation.
We also went to Craters of the Moon while everyone was there. I am pretty sure that I took pictures because I bought a scrapbook kit, but I can't find them anywhere.
Having everyone together is so much fun and I miss this sooooo much! The time went by far to quickly and soon everyone was off home again. Tony and the kids left before I did. I got to stay for a few more days. :)
This is a beautiful double rainbow that I saw one afternoon before I headed home to Ohio. You can't see the double in the center picture, but it was there. I had to take the picture in the front yard the back to get it all in. Idaho has great weather....sometimes.
