Thuernagle Famuily Renunion in Montpelier

The first night, we roasted marshmallows which is always a favorite for the kids. It seems for the adults a treat that is pure sugar that's melted is not so appealing these days. Here is Josh and Joey waiting anxiously for their yummy treat.Andrew stretching with all his might to toast his marshmallows.
On Saturday we went to Bear Lake and had so much fun! We blew bubbles, built sand castles, threw Frisbees, exfoliated our skin with the wonderful sand, and just basked in the sun! Andrew sure had fun with the bubbles!
Olivia was amazingly good at blowing bubbles!

Doesn't Grandma Ruth look great!!
Abby had so much fun putting sand all over her!
The boys had a fun time shooting all sorts of guns. Namely 22s, pellet gun, and shotguns. They also shot bows.
Josh shooting the pellet gun.
Joey shooting the bow.
Oliver and Daryl shooting shotguns at clay pigeons.
Caleb throwing a clay pigeon for someone to shoot at.

A Mother's Proud Moment

For the last couple years I have been pleading with Joshua to try riding his bike without training wheels and finally he decided to give it a try. I think it was the fact that Joshua saw his little brother Andrew give it a try and it was even on Joshua's bike. And make sure to watch the whole thing because Caleb was just being Caleb at the end of the video...so funny!

Happy Father's Day!

We had a fun day for Father's day! It started off with the boys secretively putting on their gifts for their dad. We all huddled in the mud room quietly while dad was still sleeping and practiced saying "Happy Father's Day" in unison. Then crept into his room and woke him up with a nice surprise! The boys had a hoot and Jon woke up with a smile!Jon's favorite baseball team, the Cincinnati Reds!
A new fishing shirt and a new tie!
This shirt Andrew is wearing was just too perfect to pass up. It says "You don't hunt? I see no point in talking to you!" Jon loved it!
Here is my handsome husband with his 3 handsome boys...well one pouting in the corner anyway. It's a little ironic Josh didn't want to take a picture because earlier when he was wearing dad's new hat he asked me to take more pictures of him... Kids!

Boing! Boing! Boing!

This last monday we had a nice surprise...Aunt Katie and Abby came down from Idaho Falls! So we had a last minute bbq with them and Uncle Clay and Aunt Elizabeth. The most amusing part of it all was watching Andrew and Abby on the trampoline. Andrew was bouncing Abby and she was having full on belly laughs. It was so cute! Of course nothing tops the "trampoline hair"! Since Andrew has a buzz cut you couldn't see it on him, but Abby's was in full display! The picture below doesn't even give it justice. :) Thanks Katie and Abby for coming over and hanging out with us!!!

California Girls Trip

I hope everyone hasn't given up on my blog since it's been forever since I last posted. Jon had the camera for a little while from bear hunting and I just kept forgetting to get it from him. I didn't even have it on my girls trip. :( Luckily most of the others had one so I was able to get pictures from them. Here are my wonderful friends from California. Left to right: Jennifer, Kathryn, Me, Marie, Shauna, Thira, and Marie. Yup two Maries! We just had a ball! Everything from eating out to going to the beach to playing card games until 3 in the morning!! Ha!I was in absolute heaven at the beach. It was a perfect day! Somehow the beach at American Falls just doesn't compare.

Herst Castle

So here we all are at Herst Castle (which is absolutely amazing to see!) This is the view to the ocean from one of the patios (if you can really just call them patios 'cause they are so huge!).This is the pool outside that originally was smaller and was added on to. You can't see the two waterfalls that come into this pool. This pool was very enticing, you just wanted to jump in!
Here's the indoor pool and every inch of this room and pool are covered in tiny mosaic tiles. Half of which were gold leafed. Just amazing!!
This is the main house (there are 3 guest houses too) and we only saw a small portion of it. It was just huge and incredible inside. Many of the ceilings were imported from other palaces and castles and everywhere were beautiful art and statues.
The garden alone at the castle could've had its own tour. It was beautiful! Since the castle was built they've planted over 70,000 trees. Yes that's the right amount of zeroes!

New layout

So I wouldn't have normally chosen this cowboyish layout, but considering we're turning into cowboys I thought it was appropriate. :) Let's just hope I don't start talking like one y'all!