Taylor Family Reunion St. Anthony

For the Norman Taylor family reunion this year we went up to St. Anthony, Idaho.  Stephen and Alyssa were in charge of the reunion since Carrie is back east in Virginia.  They traded years, so nice of them.  Anyways, Alyssa's family has property in Idaho so we were able to go up there and camp for a couple of days.  It was from July 25-28.  We packed up our car and headed out Thursday afternoon.  That was the longest drive Variah has done in her short little life.  That girl doesn't love car trips, that's for sure.  We tried to time it so she would take her afternoon nap after an hour of driving, but that didn't really happen until 2 hours of driving with a lot of whining and crying.  But she finally slept even though her hand was on top of her head! Haha

We ended up being the first ones to arrive at the campsite.  We did a little exploring and Variah did a little bit of "biting the dust"-poor thing didn't see the step down from the grass to the dirt road.

Here is what our "home" looked like

The kitchen

The bedrooms

The view from the other side of the pond

The driveway

The dining room

It was a pretty amazing place. I can see why Alyssa LOVES going there with her family. I'm thankful she let us enjoy it as well.  We had lots of fun and here are some pictures to prove it!

Variah loved climbing up the stairs of the slide

Ashley and Camille testing out Ashley's new hammock

Grandma and Grandpa Taylor with the kiddos

Melissa, Jessica and McKinley

Sam and many of the kids

Stephen's truck got stuck while trying to set up the zipline. Sam was able to pull him out with his truck

"Fat man in a little coat" Haha, Daniel liked wearing a small lifejacket cuz then it didn't ride up when he jumped in the water-good thinking huh?

Variah loved swimming too

My cute kayaker

Ashley, Camille and Debbie

Variah was napping so we jumped in the canoe and went out for a bit

Alyssa and Breklynn

Sam and David

Such good form Tiff!

Anna loving the slide

Spencer, Brayden, Marika and Tiff

Ziplining Pictures:

Daniel

Me

While I was flying through the air Variah was pointing me out to Grandma T

Daniel

We also had some times of relaxing:

Brayden and Me watching the fishermen

Daniel

Breklynn

Jaxton 

We also had craft time

Painting rocks

Making marshmallow shooters

And because you haven't seen enough of Variah here are some pictures of her while we were camping

Yes she can play the guitar AND the flute at the same time

She loves pushing her stroller

This is how she slept at night-all bundled up in a snowsuit

It was a great reunion!

Thank you Stephen and Alyssa for planning it!