Wilson County Fair 2016

 We had a fun day at the Fair last weekend-here we are at the top of the Ferris Wheel! Great view!

                                            Can you see us on the Pirate Ship???

Trying to enjoy some fun weekends while it's still "Summer weather"!!!!!!!!!!

Someone got their ear's pierced!!! :-) August 6th

 Okay, so this REALLY nice girl was at Claire's and Emily was up for the challenge, SO we were brave and got our ears pierced!! She got her birthstone color, and loves them!!!

 SHE WAS SOOOO EXCITED FOR THIS DAY!!!!!!!!!  I said I was in 2nd grade when I got my ears pierced, and that's all she needed to hear to make an argument!!! :-0  She started school the next Monday in the big 2nd grade!

Just For Jane Trivia Night (June 23rd)

 We had an awesome night celebrating Aunt Jane's battle with Multiple Myeloma!!! The celebration included an Auction, Trivia, and a charity raffle game. 

 My cousin David did a superb job of being auctioneer and leading the Trivia night on the mic!!!!

 There is Kailyn and cousin Amy, who was amazing to organize such an incredible event!! Way to go!!!!!

 The auction was full of many items, and I believe there were over 300 people there to challenge and celebrate that night! I was amazed the entire evening by such loving compassion and commitment people had for my aunt, and how much we can really do when we come together to help others.  I truly believe in the power of Love, Faith, Family and Friends!!!




 Aunt Jane and Uncle Rich along with mom took a journey down and followed us back to TN, staying throughout the week with us.  What a super fun week of family and fun, and especially celebrating the life and good health so far of Aunt Jane, who will continue to fight through some hard times with cancer treatment, but so far she has won the battle!!!

A Visit to Idaho to Celebrate 50yrs.-2016

 We stayed at one of brother-in-law Rich and Kari's friend's beautiful home in Swan Valley, ID, but they call it a "cabin" on the Snake River. 

 There was a man-made pond, where there was LOTS to do, including kayaking, trampoline and swimming!!!!

 

 Rob enjoyed every minute of fly-fishing the river, on the shore behind the cabin!! No trout to be had, but there was a valiant effort!

 We all had lots of fun floating down the river-it was COLD!  But it was a blast!

                   The River Rat-Pack!!

 We had a special 50th wedding anniversary cake    and RIBS for the festive dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our other very fun adventure took us to the Teton and Yellowstone Nat'l Parks, which we drove through all in one day-of course it was just one portion of each of them, but Old Faithful was the highlight in Yellowstone!!!!!!

                                                      Grand Teton Mountain Range

We had a great adventure out in Idaho again this year with all the Bull cousins-we'll be back!!!!!

The celebration continues......!!

 So, after 2 prior celebrations, we finally had a pool party for Hailey's 11th b-day and all the girls had fun swimming, and then making their tye-dye shirts in the barn!

 Here is where the creativity of tye-dying was performed-they made some really neat designs!

Here are a few samples of the tye-dying experiments.  We were very impressed with how the colors came out bright!!!