Every year for as long as I can remember we have gone to Lava Hot Springs over the weekend that Josh's birthday falls. I think that ends up being about the 3rd weekend in July every year. It used to be that we'd just go to the pool on Sunday, but as of the last few years we've gone camping for the whole weekend! It's always a weekend I look forward to! We do the same thing every year, but it's still so much fun!
We got there on Friday and set up camp. We had dinner as soon as we could because we were all starving. Then we played bocce ball, horse shoes, some ninja game that I forgot the name of, word on the street, animal noise games, and others that I'm sure I'm forgetting! We are full of games, and ALWAYS find ourselves laughing!
This is just a quick little video we caught did of Jack! He's my mom's most favorite dog, and he is spoiled to say the least! We all make fun of him that he's not too smart even though she'll argue with us that he's the smartest out of all the dogs. In this video he actually does seem pretty smart ;)
The next day we always float the river all day. We've learned over the years that if we get the huge quad tubes we don't come out with river wounds. To anyone who's ever floated the river there you know that it can be pretty brutal if you fall off your tube! We always hang out by the big waterfall, and the boys look for sunglasses that other not-so-lucky people have lost. Then we usually float the river a couple times! We had a few head bonks going off the waterfalls, but overall our injuries stayed at a bare minimum...which is good for us!
That night we played more games, and we celebrated Josh's birthday because that was his actual "birth date". We threw in my mom's name when we sang happy birthday to him because hers was just a few days prior.
On our last day we always spend it at the pool. It's been tradition for our whole family to have a competition down the slides to see how can get the farthest. There's always like 10-15 of us lined up at the bottom of the slide from standing where we stopped. It's always so fun! This year we also played lots of soccer and had a Bocce ball competition!
I have the BEST family in the world! It was so fun to be together with everyone, and we all missed Brad so much! Having such a fun weekend to look forward to, though, did make the time go by much faster!
The next day we always float the river all day. We've learned over the years that if we get the huge quad tubes we don't come out with river wounds. To anyone who's ever floated the river there you know that it can be pretty brutal if you fall off your tube! We always hang out by the big waterfall, and the boys look for sunglasses that other not-so-lucky people have lost. Then we usually float the river a couple times! We had a few head bonks going off the waterfalls, but overall our injuries stayed at a bare minimum...which is good for us!
That night we played more games, and we celebrated Josh's birthday because that was his actual "birth date". We threw in my mom's name when we sang happy birthday to him because hers was just a few days prior.
This video made me laugh so hard because my dad sings "jolly, jolly, jolly" the whole time (standing for Josh and Molly).
On our last day we always spend it at the pool. It's been tradition for our whole family to have a competition down the slides to see how can get the farthest. There's always like 10-15 of us lined up at the bottom of the slide from standing where we stopped. It's always so fun! This year we also played lots of soccer and had a Bocce ball competition!
I have the BEST family in the world! It was so fun to be together with everyone, and we all missed Brad so much! Having such a fun weekend to look forward to, though, did make the time go by much faster!
No comments:
Post a Comment