The Shepherd Family Reunion

The end of July we had the annual Shepherd family reunion thanks to Rick, Paula, and Dan. We went up to Crystal Hot Springs and got to enjoy swimming in the Hot Springs, relaxing and watching Rick and Paula do all of the delicious cooking. Paula did such a good job she might have to be the official dutch oven chef every year. Our favorite part (or maybe Jim's) was camping only feet away from a railroad track - we were awakened several times during the night by a train whistle and the ground shaking. Fun stuff. We were also awakened in the middle of the night by Nate throwing up. There are a few "sure things" in our lives and one of those is that one of our children will throw up in the night while we camp - lucky us. It was so dark, we just kind of scooted everyone out of the way and went back to sleep. In the morning Nate woke up with his hair straight up, throw up on his shirt, and dried blood from a bloody nose in the night (that is another sure thing in our family), he looked over at the throw up and yelled "Eww Kaylen, that's gross!" He didn't even remember throwing up - he thought it was Kaylen. It was pretty funny.

This was my favorite picture - it is our neice Baylie

Another funy story from the month - Mike and I were just about to go to bed when we heard what we thought was running water coming from the kitchen. I jumped out of bed flipped on the light to find Nate standing at the top of the stairs going to the bathroom through the railing!! I have to admit we were a little in awe at thenice waterfall we had coming from the second floor. We yelled at Nate, who was kind of startled, and asked him what he was doing. He said "just going to the bathroom" pulled up his pants and went back to bed. It made for a good laugh, but not a fun cleanup.