Trip to Yakima

We were planning on going to a Richins family reunion in July. There was a Tree family reunion the exact same days in Yakima, celebrating my Grandpa's 100th birthday, but we weren't going to be able to make it. We were going to go to Yakima for a visit a few weeks later. Mitchell started getting very sick though and we really needed to go see him. The kids all ended up getting very sick and we weren't able to go anywhere for a few days. We ended up getting to Yakima in time for the closing day of the Tree reunion and were able to spend some time with Mitchell. Jared flew back Utah to work and then joined us for the time we were originally going to be in Yakima. Then we all came home together. 
We took a family picture with Mitchell and the entire Hatfield Family while we were there. 

A few pictures from that day at the reunion...

Caitlin meeting her cousin Eden

Lots of cousins!

We were so grateful to get to spend time with Mitchell!

Yakima 2nd ward pioneer party

4th of July

We had a quiet 4th of July just by ourselves this year.

Festive Family

Jared had fun making decorated pancakes that morning.

And we had fun eating them.

We spent the afternoon playing on the slip-n-slide. Mackayla didn't want to get wet so she got the job of taking pictures. These next few are all taken by her.

Notice the mountain on fire in the background.

Jared and Bradley were pretending to shoot birds

Delicious hamburger dinner

Then we made smores for dessert and homemade ice cream.

Caitlin hanging out with Mom

Sparklers!

Watching the small fireworks show that Daddy put on.

One afternoon the kids were trying not to get wet while playing in the sprinklers.

Right before we were suppose to leave for our summer family reunion trips, the kids all came down with a bad stomach bug. Jacob also had a high fever and was very sick!
We got a visit from the Hatfield family while they were on their Utah part of their summer trip. The kids loved getting to play with cousins!

We've had a ton of wild fires here in Utah this last month and some of them have been fairly close. You could see in the picture before that the mountain was on fire during the 4th of July week and the week before that the mountains on the other side of us were on fire. These are a couple pictures I took of the smoke from that one.