After breakfast we headed out for a big family hike around String Lake. Branson loved sitting in the front seat up with Daddy!
We have to laugh at this picture because pretty much EVERYONE in the Egbert family owns a Honda Pilot. Here are just 4 of the 6 in the family (missing ours and Dean and Janets old one they gave to Casey). Adam thinks we should get all of them together and send in pictures for a commercial!
Later that evening we all drove into Jackson Hole (which is about an hour drive from camp each way) and we went to an awesome dinner show at the Bar J Wranglers. We all got a traditional cowboy meal with meat n’ taters and the worst watered down lemonade (which they explained was fairly authentic since cowboys didn’t have lemonade) and then they started the show. They had 4 or 5 different cowboys singing and boy howdy they were AWESOME! My favorite was the guy with the deep deep base voice singing “Bid Bad John.” He did a great job and I couldn’t help but do some chair dancing as I listened to the songs. I really enjoyed the show. Adam bless his heart took all the kids outside (as they were WIRED and too excited to sit still for several hours) where he was able to watch the kids and catch up with his nephew Kyle who had just flown in from Texas – so unfortunately he didn’t get to SEE much of the show. But he did get to at least hear it.
The next day we were all pretty worn out from the day before and so most of us took it a little easier. We had it on the schedule to go and do the Alpine Slide and Tram that day – but pretty much everyone boycotted that idea for hanging out at camp, taking naps, and catching up around the campfire. However, later that afternoon we all did venture over to Jackson Lake for a little swimming action for some, and rock throwing for others, or to just sit and read a book. I absolutely LOVED this and just felt like I was in my own little heaven looking across the lake at those mountains! My goodness were they beautiful!
That day we also had our big family meeting where we do our sisters gift exchange and then pass the baton on to the new reunion people (who will be Steven and Marcie). Dean presented us each with an amazing book he had compiled with stories from the Egbert and Felix ancestors and then he also presented Mumsie with a book we all sent pictures in for showing just SOME of the incredible quilts she’s made for us all. The book had over 100! It was amazing and she really loved it. Dean also talked about missionaries in our family and had each of the boy kids who would someday go on missions stand up. It was pretty cool to see.
That night we had a big thunderstorm come in and boy oh boy did it pour! It was during dinnertime too so it became quite interesting trying to find places to eat dinner without getting soaked or being in 3 inch deep puddles. Needless to say a big toasty fire was in order after dinner to dry us all out! We had a great time talking though and sharing stories.
The last day of our adventure was Saturday and most everyone just got up and started breaking camp. We did as well seeing as you had to be out of the camp ground by 11 – but because we weren’t heading home and were going over to Idaho to stay with Sister Wilding from my mission – we took our time and had one last adventure before taking off. Our final destination was to visit Jenny Lake.
Adam ended up not being able to find parking (especially considering he was pulling the trailer by now) so he dropped off me and the kids to go and look for a space. In the meantime Dawson ended up face planting it on the pavement while running and cut up both of his hands pretty good requiring a few bandaids. CRAZY. I also had to take all 4 kids to the bathroom and that was pretty fun too, especially considering all 3 of the boys refused to go into the ladies restroom with me and the line for the girls side was 20 people long! Luckily the kids were good though and stayed right where I told them too after they got done going. 🙂
Daddy showed up about then and he took a trail down to the Lake and then found ourselves a nice little secluded picnic spot down by the water. It was PERFECT!
