Paintball and Playtime

This whole week has just been full of fun, fun and more FUN!!! 

Where everyday is cousin day.

For this cousin day the boys wanted to go paint-baling and the girls.. shopping.

Well minus me and Jenna that is, so we joined the boys.

 Today was a day of first..

First day wearing a sweatshirt inside out.

First day shooting a paintball gun.

And I'm sure you can guess it, first day getting shot (noticed the giant yellow splat on my shoulder)

OWCH!!!

Oh and first day building a human pyramid. 

We went through cases and cases of balls, but I mean there were ONLY 15 of us.

Eventually we ran out and a lot more random people showed up, which meant time to move parties. 

Everybody went over to my Uncle Gary's to eat food, LOTS OF IT!!!

Sit around the camp fire, and just have a good time.

 Which for us meant many failed attempts at a cousin pyramid and acrobatics..

Gymnast blood seems to run in this family, or at least we act like it does. 

I really don't want these guys to go home, ever!!! 

Can grandpa just turn 90 every year please? 

Happy Birthday Gramps

You best believe it, my grandpa is 90! 

90 YEARS OLD GUYS!!!

And man is he still looking good. 

6 kids later and everything.

So all of his wonderful children threw him a party! Cause who wouldn't want to celebrate that number? Talk about an accomplishment.

Ever since my grandma passed away and grandpa left for Rexburg it's hard to get the whole family together because well there is so dang many of us! But all the brothers and sisters came and every family member that's ever been born pretty much.

 

He may not be able to hear anything with all of us running around but it sure was great having him home for a while! 

 

Banks Lake: Extended Edition

Before I even start, let's rewind.

Banks lake: my family's yearly camp out on the beach. 

Traditions consist of..

Cliff Jumping

Wakeboarding

Tube Wars

Outhouses 

Alex Kastanis and Jeff Butcher

Cosmo

Campfires 

Lake Chelan Water Park

&

FRUIT AND SUNSCREEN!!! 

 

So basically we camp on the beach for a week with our boat. 

When we aren't out on the water, we are tanning or eating on the sand.

It's the life.

 

This year was a little extra exciting because Jeff was wonderful and brought a slack line. 

Tan on the rocks, get hot, attempt to slack line and fall in the water. 

Life is good guys, and it gets even better.

 We spent hours tubing and wrestling on tubes and napping on tubes. 

We like our inner tubes. Can you tell? 

But this year failed to have a tube war. I need some new compitition. 

Every year we take the same picture in the same spot. 

So this picture is self explanatory.

Excuse our grubbiness though considering we haven't showered in a few days..

Yuck I know..

 But when we've done all the camping we can do we still have one more adventure in store.

Lake Chelan Water Park!!!

Every single year we stop here on the way home. 

This year we were especially burnt..

Hence the yellow noses.

Turns out all the lifeguards liked our look so we shared some yellow nose love with them. 

Next stop Germany. 

Okay not really, just Levenworth. 

We took the scenic route home to grab ourselves a delicious german dinner in this quaint town.

Until next year..

Or really the year after cause I'll be in Peru on my misson.   

Alex is Here!

Every year since I can remember my cousin from Arizona comes to visit from Arizona! 

We go to banks lake and run around Olympia all week. 

I'll talk about Banks in another post though because it deserves it's own.

On our way home we took the detour and stopped in Leavenworth.

Which was awesome!!! 

It's this quaint little German town in the mountains. 

Then we spent a day in Seattle. 

Pikes Place.

Gum Wall.

Gyros. 

The Pier.

 Us and our cards..

We play them at banks, at birthday parties and everywhere. 

I'm glad that I got to spend 2 weeks with this awesome girl!!!