Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Shively Family Reunion Campout

Last month we had the
Shively Family Reunion
My family was in charge of it and instead of doing a little BBQ at a park we decided to go camping at heisi hot springs it was a blast!


On the drive there

When we pulled up of course all the boys were out exploring the big hill of rocks

 since lil Jackson lives in Cali he doesn't get to see this side of the family much, but he sure did make some good friends fast

That night we had pizza and then an out door movie! it was alot of fun we put a big sheet on the side of one of campers and had the movie projected.
Every one had there camp chairs and all the kids were laying on blankets in front, it was such a nice calm warm night perfect to watch tangled.


Craft time for the kidos

 the zip liners



The manly men going golfing

Jenn & I found some wild life on our nature hike
 Jenn at the very top!

the view from the top of our hike,
it was nice that we had the whole place to our self, we could be as loud as we wanted to be with out worrying about
campers around us

It was funny cause Jenn's brother and his family was camping in the site just to the right of the little mountain


Jamming to some music on the hike



My niece Cami lou all ready to go swimming

Cami lou and the after-math of swimming all day

after dinner we played
"minuet-to-win-it"

this one you had to put some stuff on your nose and put cotton balls from one plate to the other

Nicole reping our fam

This one you have to stack 5 on your forehead

Of course my brother J.D. won

"The Mummy wrap"
some how they talked grandma and grandpa in to being a team and trying..
Jenn & I reped my fam and won,
we were cleaning up and grandpa was still spinning! he is stud

Some of the boys, i love these kinda pics, i love looking at all of the pics of my cousins and i at this age camping they are so funny so hopefully when these boys get older they can look back and these will remind them of some good memories


This game was kinda tricky, the couples did this one



Jenn didn't want documentation of her holding a baby (very rare occasion)


 Cami trying the famous pretzel salad

HAHA now this
game was my fav to watch!
you have to get the Oreo from
your forehead to your mouth.. simple right?
not at all! It took prob 15 min
for some one to get it!



You have to make funny faces to move your face muscles to move it down so we all got a kick out of watching everyone

 I wish i would have gotten a better pic of the
"Shivley Family Tree"
in the back ground, my mom and sister Nicole spent SO much time on it, at the bottom of the tree has Grandma and Grandpa's names and then there are the roots of the tree both of there parents then each branch has my aunt and uncles names then on the branches is all of there kids names( my cousins) then there kids are the leafs so when they have a new baby just put a new leaf on
there are only a couple of us couins left that dont have leafs yet, but all in due time :)


 Thane is in such deep concentration

FINALLY!!
thane won


Sunday, August 21, 2011

Yellowstone Camping trip 2011


I'm trying to catch up on all the fun i have had this summer!
I finished beauty school and have been working my old summer job flagging waiting to take my cosmo boards to get my licence it is kicking my butt! hard work but
the pay is amazing.. today ways my only day off this whole last week! i
worked 73 hours, yes there were
some mornings when my alarm
goes off at 4:30am i just wanted to
push snooze button, yes there are some afternoons i just want to give up and go home, and yes there
are some times my feet hurt so bad i want to cry but at the end of the
 week and when that pay check comes its all worth it.. anyways.. that has been the reason i have been slacking on keeping up to date cause the rare occation of having the day off I have alot better things to do then be sitting at home on the computer, but such is life..

Last month I went camping for a whole week in Yellowstone with my friend Jenn and her brother, sister in law,
and her cute little niece.

I love Yellowstone with a PASSION
the last couple of years i have been wanting to go but no one would come with me, so i was really excited for this trip. Also i had never camped there just day trips, it was so nice not to feel rushed to see everything and get to relax.

The fist day we went on a cool little short hike to a little waterfall we were at the top of it and we looked across and saw this..
non of us had seen one and everyone that saw it hadn't either, we showed the pic to the rangers and they said they had never seen anything like it I'm pretty sure we discovered it!
Jenn found this cool make-shift fishing poll
The beautiful Falls
Here is out lil albino friend again he was just loven on the sun heated rocks

Looking out just amazes me, thinking about all the animals that live out there that we can't see 





My mom always told me if you want to take a pic of some cool scenery have some one in it cause it might not seem ask cool as a photo.. so, there is alot of random pics with Jenn in them, haha she hates pictures or I probably would have taken 100's of pictures


We camped in a campground right on the lake it was just a hop skip and a jump from our tent I loved it!

we were looking around in the hot pots and spotted a penny!

Pictures do NOT do this place justice.. if you have never been here you hate to go at least once in your life time!
I'm grateful we live so close


Jenn sporting Maya's cute hat


Going on an adventure, hiking a trail that is closed.. dun dun dun...
The beautiful lake!

Where is Jenn?

Random tree in the lake


 
Jenn thought this was a good spot to read a book


Maya & Her fav Aunt
Playing tag in the woods


Checking to see if the tin foil dinners
are done

Jenn and i were in charge of one of the nights for dinner and we sure did
a good job!

They sure were delish!


The perfect mollow


I love the outdoors so much, I just can't get over how breath taking it is!





on another nature hike

 

AMAZING VIEW



SO Many stairs 
We spotted a birds nest under one of the steps
Messing with my camera while Jenn
rock climbs






Love birds floating while the sun sets
If you look closely you can see one of those beaver things, there were tonz of them!



yes yes i know its only a chipmunk,
but if you know me i love all kinds of animals.
(if it was up to me my house would be a zoo)

some cool guy at Old faithful started the wave in the crowed while we were waiting..
It made it ALL the way to the other end



It was kinda windy and 2 people lost
their hats!
in the steam from the hot pots


It was such a nice get away after i finish school and started working a TON

well there we got that post out of the way, just a couple more before I'm all caught up this was my first full day off all week!
i have lots to catch you up on of my exciting life!