Our second (and last) big vacation for the summer was the Adamson Family reunion with Bert's parents and siblings. This year Dave was in charge and it was held at Farragut State Park in northern Idaho.
We decided to go easy on the drive up and took two days to travel up to Spokane. So Saturday night we stopped off in Dillon, Montana at a little hotel. Our first family stay with the 5 of us in a one room hotel room, it wasn't too bad!
We arrived at Dave's house in Spokane Sunday afternoon where all but two of Bert's 9 siblings and their kids had congregated.
Kaylie and her oldest cousin Michael immediately bonded and hung out for a big part of the reunion. He was such a sweetheart with her.
Emma was in heaven with all the girl cousins. We all live so far away from each other we don't see them much. Here she is with Kaitlyn, Ruthie and Sadie.
We spent the night at Dave's and spent the next morning getting ready to go camping for three days at Farragut. The girls spent the morning out in the back on the trampoline.
Shortly after arriving at the campground we took a Ron Adamson family picture. All but one of the 10 kids and all of the grandkids were there. Justin is currently in Ecuador serving a mission.
Left to right (all of the adults anyway), Eric, Andrea, Ryan, Gary, Melanie, Liz, Bert, Dave, Tiffani, Scott, Tiffany, Kimi, Landen, Codi, Joe, Becky, Mom, Dad
And our little family portrait
Mom and Dad
And a few shots from around camp, we spent three days and two nights there. Went swimming, swinging, had a great afternoon of games for the kids and ate lots of food.
Kaylie still hanging out with Michael, she's giving him one of her "big, big, big!" kisses as she calls it.
Cousins playing games
My little family. You can't tell from the picture but all my kids, even Jacob loved it. Lots of free space to roam, new things to see. And my the part that made it low stress for me, lots of adults to help keep an eye on the kids.
In the tent. Somebody is tired.
Uncle Joe brought a climbing rope and rigged a swing for the kids. Best entertainment ever. There were always at least 2-3 kids waiting for a turn.
Kaylie's in heaven. My favorite was watching her stand on top of the picnic table yelling for help to get on the swing. "Michael, I need you!" she would yell.
Bad picture of Jacob running around, but it's the only one I have.
Emma on the swing.
Olivia is about 6 or 7 months older than Jacob. Our last day the spent about 15 minutes running around holding hands. They of course stopped as soon as they saw the camera.
Grandpa spent much of his time making hiking sticks for all the grandkids. Thank you grandpa!
We had a ton of fun and can't wait to do it again! We are in charge of the next one, I hope we can put on one as least as good as this year's reunion.
