Chris and Janelle's Wedding!

 Finally I have my pictures and my sister in law's pictures of Chris and Janelle's Wedding! Which was the reason we went on our vacation in the first place.  They were married in the Redlands Temple in Southern California.  Also, I now have my camera with allllllll my pictures from our vacation and I am in HEAVEN!!! Heavenly Father sure was looking out for me.

 Oh Happy Day!  That was the phrase on there wedding announcements which I loved! This pictures says it all.

 Tyler's family minus Spencer, who JUST got home from his mission and is coming to visit us soon

 Awesome getaway car!

 The reception was sooo cute! There was so much of Janelle's personal touch to it with her very original style. I loved it!

 First Dance

 Family Pic

Aunt Ernie, Aunt Beth, Grandpa Dan, Grandma C, Aunt Sarah, and Jane (Tyler's mom)  Let me tell you this bunch is a spicy bunch!!! Never a dull moment with them.  Amanda, Devrey, and I went shopping with these guys earlier that day and we were laughing in the car the entire time.

 Austin had to touch the tires of course...and get his hands all dirty

 Tyler Aunt Sarah, Brittan, Nicole, Andrew, and Uncle Rob.  This was my first time meeting Sarah and Andrew.  I'd met the other part of the family once before.

 All the nieces and nephews

 Blake and I.  Janelle made all the boys bow-ties.  They are adorable.  Too bad Austin won't wear his.

 Blake and Brittany.

 Boys

Blake started walking 100% on this trip.  He's been a good walker and hardly falls down from the time he started.  Makes my life easier!  I'm so excited to have Janelle in the family.  The girls are  starting to creep their way in!  We'll be overtaking all those boys in no time.

Wheat Pictures!

 This picture is right out my front door in Walla Walla.  It's a good thing we took the pictures when we did because they harvested the field the next day.

 3 of my sisters, my mom, and a niece or nephew from each sister.  They just started showing up and wanted in the picture!

Only missing our oldest sister...She was inside relaxing I'm sure

Bennington Lake

 We went to Bennington Lake for a picnic lunch with the kiddos. Everyone loved the back of grandma's truck

 I love this view of the lake and the beautiful hills of wheat in the background

testing the waters

 such a sweet face!

It started out just throwing rocks....

But soon everyone was in enjoying the water and there was no way we were getting them out!

The Tree

 While I was at home we had a HUGE limb break off our HUGE tree.  I spent a good amount of time climbing this tree when I was younger so it was a bit sad to see the branch come down...which is the one I spent most of my time on...maybe that's why it broke? :)

 We spent two mornings pruning the smaller branches off and hauling them up our hill to our dump pile.  The weather was hot! 95-100 degrees, but it was nothing like Texas heat.  I loved it! I could stay outside all day and not die.

This is about 3/4 of the branch which also took down another larger branch below it.  After we pruned off all the small branches, Bryson, my brother-in-law and my dad took a chain saw and cut the rest of the branches.  I spent the day hauling those up our hill as well.  Then Bryson got trimming happy and trimmed the trees that line our driveway, our dogwood tree, and the willow tree.  I loved it though!  It's been a while since I've done hard work like that.

Walla Walla Fun!

 Isn't my niece Kate the cutest! I love how she's posing in the mirror.

 We went swimming 3 or 4 times in my friend's pool.  It was great to get the kids away from the house so whoever stayed behind could have some QUIET time...Here I am with my sister Kara.  She is the BEST babysitter every and she sure got her fill this week.

 Lily and Kate. I couldn't help putting this one on. Aren't they adorable??

 Brooks was so sweet and gave Blake the ball to throw to him.  Blake would throw it, but it wouldn't quite make it to him.

 Austin kept saying, "Look mom, I'm swimming!"  While crawling along the bottom of the pool

 Doesn't Blake look like a chunker here?

 If you look closely at Jana's tummy you can tell she's pregnant.

Austin and Brooks.

 I have so many fun memories swimming at this pool growing up. Here I am doing a front flip

and a back dive.  I wasn't brave enough to do the backflip...I'm a bit rusty.  We even got my mom to go off the diving board and got a GREAT picture of her...but I won't embarass her by posting it.  I was just impressed she even jumped off. 

Caldwell, Idaho (2nd half of vacation)

 Tyler's older brother Chris got married July 14th in Southern California so we made a big 2 and a half week trip out of it and had soooo much fun! However, I lost my camera and ALLL my pictures(still not over it) so here are pictures other people have taken which I really appreciate. I am blogging our trip out of order, but I don't have any pictures yet from the first half of our trip. 

 This is at my sister's Stake Pioneer Day celebration which was Saturday July 21st. Also Blake's birthday!  So this is his birthday party!

 The entire production was awesome! They had so many fun booths to visit and even had dancers performing almost the entire time.  And it was almost 100 degrees outside.

 Austin and Kayla in a handcart...imagine pushing that across the U.S. with all your belongings. My mind cannot even fathom it.

 This was an old fashioned wagon Hurst display. Here I am with Austin and Kayla

 Lily and Blake

 Happy Birthday toothless Blake!!!

 We got a wagon ride around the parking lot

 Austin tried out the sack races

 He made it about 5 feet. It was hilarious watching him!

 Bryson, Me, and Tyler tried it as well

 Bryson beat us all but fell right before the finish line. Too bad he didn't technically win! haha

 Jamie was a pro at this one.  PVC piping.  Who knew you could have so much fun!  She beat Bryson pretty bad!

 Austin loved roping the steer! We got some good action shots of him.

 I love this picrture of us shooting the bow and arrow!

 Kayla and Blake! Kayla is undergoing chemotherapy right now and she is doing great so far.  She was out in the heat for 3 hours and kept up with everyone else.

 Benson feeding Blake some lunch

This was just one day out of MANY so there is more blogging to come!