July 4th and 5th

Everyone was really helpful so that was such a blessing. In fact, just about everyone held Scout for me while we were there. She slept on just about everyone too. I wish I had gotten more pictures of the people that held her but here is just a small picture of who did.

We had devotional every morning. It was good to have all the young folks do a devotional.

On the 4th we went down to the general store that is pretty famous for the area. Mom gave us all 5 dollars to buy something. I wanted to find some Christmas ornaments for the girls to show where they had been. The ones I found were SUPER cute! I also let Sadie pick out some candy for herself. She was so excited!

Chrissy and I went paddle boarding after that and were joined by the Aunties and Mom. We finished that off with some hot tub time!

Andrew was good to watch the girls for a bit!

Emily was so good with all the kids. They loved her too. Here she is watching three two year olds. They were jumping all over her.

We were blessed to get to hear Grandpa Hatch talk to us about this wonderful country, followed by our lovely Grandma Hatch. We are so blessed to be able to get such an inside scoop to our government. They understand more about the freedoms we have than most Americans.

Unfortunately the weather was terrible, we had some crazy thunderstorms so there were no fireworks. This is how Sadie felt about that.

Haha. I know this one is blurry but I loved seeing them with their Aunt Chrissy. They all love her!

Everyone else left the morning of the 5th but we were blessed to get to stay until the afternoon. We played in the morning. The water was super choppy but it was still fun.

Dad told me to go out on the Seadoo. It was freezing and the wind blew the water into my face so I didn’t last long doing that.

I forgot that I had gotten some sparklers for the girls at the general store so we had to hurry and light them before we left for the airport. Aunt Chrissy was nice to help them do that while we got everything ready to go.

We were lucky and got to fly to Chicago with Grammy, Grampy and Chrissy. They held the babies for me and helped them nap.

 

They stayed on the airplane at Chicago and we got off. We were super sad. Lucky for us though, they had people get off the airplane so we got to hang out with them for a little longer in the airport. After they left the people in line with me for our second flight saw how pathetic I looked with my two kids and I had several people ask if they could help me. That was really sweet because I was close to having a meltdown.

We got on the plane and both kids had meltdowns. I was holding it together (I was tired and sad to leave my family) until some guy came and sat in our extra seat even though there were like 5 other open ones. We were in the last row too. And he didn’t say a word to us. So I started crying too. It was pathetic. He didn’t talk to us the whole flight and didn’t help at all so that was a little hard. I usually pray when I am flying by myself that I will be fortunate enough to sit by people who will help me and who like kids. I had forgotten this flight though so I guess it serves me right!  It was a pretty sunset!

We survived the three hour flight though and look who was waiting for us at the gate!!! I was so happy to see him and to have his help getting us all out of the airport. We were happy to see our Daddy!

Wakeboarding and Sausages

We went out early on day three to go wakeboarding. I LOVED it. It is so fun. I got up all three goes but only stayed up for at the most ten seconds. It was a blast though. I am right foot forward. I tried left once and crashed about two seconds in. But I was really excited for the opportunity. The last and only time I had done it was 11 years ago on this same lake.

I got back and Sadie was happily playing away with Grammy and Chrissy. Sadie was so happy to have a bunch of kids her age to play with. She loved it.

My favorite was when Callie went on the dock and started pushing everyone off. Most of them just abandoned ship after they saw her push someone in. Then she gracefully jumped off too.

I am really sad this is blurry but I like this picture

The kids loved later when Grampy was rolling them up like sausages. Sadie laughed and laughed.

The puzzle people and cute Chuckles.

I love that my girlies love to play with each other. So fun!

Reunion Cont.

The rest of the week was a blur. It went by so fast and was just filled with so many fun things. I loved that Sadie and Maggie got along so well. Callie and Andrew were so nice and planned for car seats and bumbos and pack-n-plays for me so I didn’t have to bring them. They also got the food and planned well for the little kids. They did a great job. The bought so much food that we didn’t have time to eat it all.
Everyone was super helpful with my kids. They would watch them for me so I could go play. Especially Grammy and Grampy. They were wonderful and sacrificed so that I could go play. They are so sweet to STILL be sacrificing for their kids and grandkids.

These girls loved the beach! The water was perfect. It wasn’t to cold and felt perfect with the humid air. I forgot how different that feels than dry Utah! Look how beautiful the view is! Jess and Mary Alice have so many toys that we were able to play with. It was awesome. I loved paddle-boarding. It was so peaceful and n ice to just be out on the beautiful water!

There were things for everyone to do. Paddle-boarding, kayaking, boating, swimming, playing in the sand, sitting and talking, etc

We were so happy that all of these people came. Not everyone could come but we loved having as many as we did!
Mom did a lot of the planning and she did a great job. There were so many things we could do. Mom did name that tune which was really fun. Everyone on Callie’s team always won though so maybe not the funnest for everyone else I was on a team with Blake though and he was shocking me with how much he knew!

Look at this beautiful lady! What a wonderful lady for us to look at and see such a shinning example. We love you Grandma Hatch!

While Sadie was sleeping I went tubing with Carolina, Lynsday and Blake. It was a lot of fun. Uncle Jess was such a good sport letting us do this and taking the boat out for everyone all day long.

The first time I went out with Lyndsay and we had a good time.




This place was beautiful!
Got to have one of the knockoff!

What a blast. The water felt so good every time I went in!