Boyer Reunion

Well, my pictures are out of order, oh well. The last day of our reunion, we went to Waterton. While driving out of the park, we saw this black bear right off the road. The kids were pretty stoked about seeing a real bear. We also saw a grizzly bear on top of Bears Hump when we climbed. That was pretty cool too. Gotta love the wild life in Waterton!

Me and Chaddy in front of Cameron Falls. He's so handsome!

Riley and his cousin Brandon. These two were inseparable. I don't even remember seeing them much at the reunion, they were always off playing!
Emily and her cousin Sydney.

Here are the Boyers: Barb, Champ, Lucky, Blackie and Rocky. I love these guys and I'm so thankful to have them as my family.

HELP!!

Here we are at the top of Bear's Hump. We climbed it! I remembered it being a nice little hike... ya, back when I was 16! Man it was hard! Chad had to push and pull me the whole way up. I'm glad I didn't bring Emily and Shelby. Chad had Hailey in the back pack, and Riley ran the whole way up! It was a beautiful view though once we were up there.

Blackie and Debra with their daughter-in-law Sarah and Grandson Tyson. Cute little family.

Just eating some chips!

Rocky and Suzie and Tanner were able to come up from Utah. What a fun time with them. I joke that I have to move to Canada to see them, since I never saw them when I lived down there!

And here we are, my brother and sister. How I love them. They sure make life fun for me! They are the best ever and I am so grateful to have them as my brother and sister.

This is with our husbands Chad and Jonathan. And while I love my sis and bro, it's not complete with out our other halves. Now we just need to get Jord married..... ;)



Just finished taking group pictures. Sitting on the porch of the cabin we stayed in. It was an amazing cabin! Room enough for us all to sleep and eat and play. So worth the money. We had so much fun all together.



It wouldn't be a reunion without Jordan trying to take Tate out with his Jujitsu! Jord did really good, and while he didn't tap out Tate, Tate did go and throw up! So it is a toss up at who really won. But everyone got into it. Chad and Jonathan, Cam tied one hand behind his back and let the kids go at him. It was fun.

Game time! Dip your nose into Vaseline, then into a bowl of cotton balls, and transport it to the bowl at the end of the table... quite funny to watch!


Wrap up the mommies with toilet paper game! Yay, that was fun!

Put the cookie on your head and get it to your mouth without using your hands game!

Hailey and Mia, Jeff and Sarah's little girl.


Riley and Brandon watching Jonathan, Chad, Jordan and Cam play Bacci Ball. They had fun. Down there at that net, me, Chad, Jordan, Crystal and Jonathan all played Badminton. It was one of the funnest times we had. Who knew that Badminton could be so fun! It was a great reunion. I feel very blessed to belong to the Boyer family. While we can be ridiculous and crazy, we can be serious and spiritual. I think we have a bond that is unbreakable. I don't think I'm the only one that knows that we could count on anyone to be there for us if we needed. Isn't family great?

Stampede.. Yee Haw!

We went to the Stampede. It was really fun, but extremely expensive. We road the LRT (train) downtown to the grounds. We had Corn Dogs for dinner... 5 dollar Corn dogs! Geesh. The kids went on a few rides and they had a blast. They also got to "milk a cow".


Petting a pony. While we were in the stables, there was a mad cow going a little crazy. So we hurried ourselves out of there!


This is just a picture for my brother. "Lanolin? Like, Sheeps wool?"

Moving

On the actual 4th of July, there were fireworks at the ball park... Melaluca field. The Hydes of course are right across the street from the field, so we headed over there to watch them. It was also the last time to hang out with our dear friends. Fun was had by all, as usual. I was grateful that it was late at night that we had to say goodbye. I don't think the kids quite grasped the concept that we were moving to Canada in the morning. I braced myself for quite the tear fest, but luckily, they were all too tired to know. Saying goodbye was too hard. We sure love the Hydes. Here is all 9 of our children!

The Monday morning we got the biggest U-Haul we could get, all the Elders and friends from town that we could manage, and in less than an hour and a half, this baby was loaded and ready to go! Sarah D. was the organizer in the truck, and I don't think that we could have fit it all in without her packing job!

So, our rent-a-car that we were assigned was a 2011 convertible red Mustang!! It was totally not practical, but way fun! Before we left Chad took our wonderful friends the Droegemuellers for a ride! I don't know what we would have done without their help. James vacuumed my entire house and Sarah swept out my whole basement. It shaved hours off of our time. How we have missed our amazing friends!

Here I am in Great Falls, just before returning my Stang! It was way fun to drive, helped to curb the tears that flowed, no, not really. I'm pretty sure I sobbed all the way to Montana. But at least I cried in style!

Once we got to the border, we had to wait for 2 hours while they processed the paperwork. No worries, by this time we are very good at waiting! But all those months of waiting for our LMO paid off, because we had no trouble getting through! Once clear, my Mom (who came down to pick us up with Crystal) brought out the Canadian flags! Oh Canada! It was quite the trip. Very very emotional, both happy and sad. But when you are doing something that you know is right, that the Lord wants you to do, it makes it all alot easier. Now a new adventure begins!

Utah Love

TEN YEARS!!! Ten years we have been married. How wonderful. (this post is a little behind, sorry) We took a trip down to Utah to have one last Hurrah with the Deans. And little did I know, that Chad planned to wisk me away for the night... without the 3 oldest kids! So we took a little walk down by the Provo temple, and reminisced of days gone by. It was wonderful and such a beautiful night. I couldn't have married a better man for me than my Chaddy. How grateful I am to him and for his love and friendship. I hope the next 10 years are as adventurous as these last have been!



We stayed at the Hines Mansion in the Library room. It's the exact room we spent our first night in together. These stairs led up to the double jaccuzi with a skylight roof.

Model poses!!

Here we all are at the little slide park in Provo. Kent ordered us a 7 foot sub sandwich. Which was just enough.. until Taylor and Jordan got there.. I think there could have been another 3 feet to feed them!

Back at Spencers house for Father's Day dinner. All the boys were there and they had a slam dunk contest. They had a blast!


Kent was having a ball just watching all his boys and grandkids have so much fun. I don't think anything could have made him happier!

Shelby, Matty and Hailey hanging out in the shade.

Michelle, Marcie and Cassie. Such pretty girls!

Riley was having SO much fun with all his cousins and uncles and of course his Dad.


Can you get a more handsome group of boys together?? All the Dean boys minus Atticus and Alex. (Mikes youngest boys)

It was a little bright! But here are the Dean girls. We are only missing Kristy in here! Pretty girls.

All the grandkids.

Emily, who was deathly afraid of this dog at the beginning of the day, was holding the dog and never wanted to let go by the end of the day!

Fourth of July!!

Here we are at the parade! We were so lucky to find our good friends Jolene and Eric! So they scootched over and we sat with them! The weather was nice and even cool, so it was great! The kids got lots of candy and had a ton of fun! Can you find Riley??

I just had to take a picture of all the American flags... wont see so many of them again in a long time. A beautiful sight.

We are all very proud to be American. These floats created very tender feelings with Chad and I. It is going to be very difficult to leave the USA. We love our country and will always be American. We know the Lord wants us to be in Canada, and that is a beautiful and blessed country as well. So it's all good. It's just good to see Old Glory in all her Glory!

Nothing like the afternoon nap after the parade and before the fireworks!

Sitting out by the river. We got there around 5:00. We just had a tiny little spot... sorry everyone around us! We got a little rambunktious! But I love being by the river with all the people. You can feel the excitement in the air!


Thinking of non-running games to play! Always a good match of arm wrestling between Emily and Riley!


This picture would be so good if it wasn't so blurry. How I love 4th of July. It is my favorite holiday. What fun we had! The fireworks of course were worth waiting for. A wonderful day.

Emily's Birthday

My little girl turned 6 years old! She wanted an Ariel cake. I think it turned out great. We had our friends the Hydes over for cake and presents. During the day our other friends the Droegemuellers came with us to the Spray park in Rexburg. It was a very fun day.


My four beautiful children. How I love my kids. I could just eat them they are so cute!

Birthday and fun!

Here is the Fisherman cake I made for Chaddy for his birthday! His birthday weekend he went on an overnight fishing trip to Henry's Lake, and could think of nothing else all month! So he had a fish themed birthday! I LOVE this cake I did. I love making cakes, it is so fun to see something so cute and yummy come together!


Of course we had to have our neighbours and friends the Hydes come over to help us eat the cake. And Uncle Jordan was there too! Happy Birthday Daddy!

Here is my so handsome little man! He went with Chad fishing, out on the lake and everything! Riley caught this fish all by himself! Yay Riley!



A few yards of bubble wrap = way too much fun!

I wanted to do something special for my kids teachers. They were such awesome teachers and I so appreciated all they did for my kids. So I made these sugar cookie flower bouquets! I think they turned out really nice!