Sister Reunion

Kache(kileys), Luke(Saras), and Renton(Ericas) sitting on Kollins monument. We had as many little boys at the sister reunion as there were sisters!! Erica, Me, Kristin, Trish, Kiley at Kollins monument Claire and Brek (tricias),They took turns crying the whole time, it is so hard not to be able to talk!!
Claire and Brek, no wonder they cried the whole time, they were always buckled in the car driving some where, poor kids!! This is one of their happier moments.

I had a fun chance to go on a vacation just for me!!!! It was our sort of annual sister reunion, this year we went to Sara's house in the Provo area. She just bought a new home there and was willing to let us all come and stay with her. Her home is beautiful, she has good taste! Erica and Kiley came from Wyo, and Nebraska, Kiley had to drive the farthest (is that a word mom?) And she had to do it alone, well with her little boys. But they drove, and I drove and Mom and Trish and Kristin flew to SLC and I picked them up on my way through.

The first day we just hung out and ate of course. Wednesday we went down to Delta UT. My brother Kollin is buried there and his headstone just barely came so we went to see that and visit his grave. It was a windy/rainy day. It was nice to see his headstone, Sara did a good job on it too. Delta has a nice Cemetery, it is well taken care of, which I am thankful for. We came home and had lunch in Provo, Kiley requested Mexican food (she is pregnant, so we let her have what she wanted!!) It was good food anyway. Then on to shopping. I think that pretty much sums up the rest of the trip, shopping, shopping, shopping. I couldn't have planned it better myself. I LOVE to shop and UT has some great shopping. We went to the Provo mall, twice, Tai Pan, IKEA, BYU bookstore (we did you to BYU campus also, but it was to go to the bookstore, so more shopping), Bed bath and Beyond, Target, Walmart, you name it we went to it. Not all enjoyed the shopping as I did but everyone did it with a smile even all of the little boys we had with us. It was sad and hard to go home. But we already have next years reunion planned for Kiley's house in Nebraska, should be fun!

Mom, Trish, and Kristin rode back with me and stayed the night then we drove them to the airport in Boise, their tickets were 29$ out of Boise, can you believe that! So me and the kids did a little more shopping in Boise after we dropped them off. They have some good outlet malls and I never get to stop when I have Ryan with me, (he doesn't value shopping like I do) So I got the kids a few things at Carters and Osh Kosh, they had great summer sales. We of course had to stop for lunch and play for a while and then we finally went home. It was a long week, but so fun.

I am glad to be having a quiet week this week. It is good to be home, I missed my kids and Ryan. Ashley stayed with my friend Kristen (so she could stay in school) Emma and Justin went to Grandma Telfords, she lives 30 miles away so she couldn't keep Ashley too. Ryan spent most of his week up in Arco planting grain, he loved it, sleeping in stinky hotels, eating fast food, and camping out with his brothers, he had a good bachelor week, but was happy to have us all back.