Keele Family Vacation

We had our Keele Family Vacation this last weekend with all of Bert's family. It's quite an impressive group. Don and Peggy have 7 living children who all married and there are 33 grandchildren! There were a coupld of families who couldn't make it, but it's still a big group! We started out the trip on Thursday at This Is The Place Monument. It's a huge place and I think even if you spent a whole day there, you wouldn't see it all. We only had a half a day to squeeze in a few fun things. We started out at the pony rides which the boys both loved!


Then headed over to the petting zoo for a few minutes. Cooper got huge, red puffy eyes after that so I guess he's allergic to one of those animals! Who knows which one!?!

They had this really cute Mini-train that all the kids loved. It drives around this pond twice and there is a tunnel which was their favorite part. When Jacks got off he told me that the next group of kids was going to laugh so hard when they went through the tunnel because it was so much fun!!
This family picture took about 5 attempts. We started out on the other side of the wagon but the sun was in Bert's eyes so he's got his eyes closed or is making a really squinty face in all of them. Then we moved to the other side and finally got our shot!

On Friday we spent the whole afternoon at Terri's house swimming in her pool and bbq-ing. Bert has had strep for a week or 2 and decided not to swim so he wouldn't pass it off to anyone...which left me with the 2 boys that don't quite know how to swim but wish they did. Luckily Jacks loves all his older girl cousins and they swam with him and I didn't see him much after that.
This is Jacks and Jessica. He gets the biggest grin on his face when you talk about Jessica, Jennifer, and Steph! Thanks girls for helping me out and swimming with Jacks!!

The poor girls spent most of the day catching him as he would run and jump into the water. He loved it. He's getting braver and braver about getting his face wet. He's totally ready for swim lessons...I wish I would have signed them up for this summer!


This is Dawson and these 2 are so funny together. They are about 6 months apart and they have the best time playing together. They both love balls and so everytime we go to Peggy's you can find these 2 out on the basketball court shooting hoops and laughing. It's so fun to have cousins that are their same age...but also to have the older cousins that still love to spend time with the little kids. It makes things fun for my boys and more relaxing for Bert and I because the older kids will take them for a walk and play with them!!



On Friday evening we headed down to Mt. Pleasant to Sara's family's cabin. It's a beautiful area and a great cabin to hang out in. Unfortunately Jacks got carsick on the way down and threw up and then in the night he was coughing so hard that he threw up again. That was sure a pain to clean up in a pitch black cabin with just a flashlight.

The boys LOVED riding on the 4-wheelers. If you ask Jacks what his favorite part was he will tell you the fast cars. There were only 2 of them and a lot of kids to ride them so they didn't get to ride as much as they would have liked!

We had a weenie roast and Cooper liked helping cook his hot dog!

Then I had a turn driving! It was so fun listening to Jacks laugh going fast down the hills!!


This is my favorite picture from the whole weekend!! Cooper loves to spider-swing! He will come up to you and say "I wanna do spider with you!" You can tell from his face how much he loves it!!


It was a fun weekend and we enjoyed spending time with family!! Next week we're off to the Williams Family Vacation up in Bear Lake so there will be another long post coming soon!!