{Summer Vacation Volume 2}

 This year was the Walker Family Reunion near Yellowstone.

This meant that all of our Walker Family would get some much need time together (all 36 of us) in one house for 4 days of lake fun.

We traveled over 2 days, with a stop in Salt Lake at Uncle K and Auntie E's house and in Rexburg, to show the boys our first college. (Rexburg sure has changed in the many years it has been since we lived there!!)

 While in Island Park the boys got to do many of the things they have learned to love since we began having Walker Family Reunions....riding wave runners and in the boat, tubing down the river, fishing, enjoying the cool weather of summer and spending lots of time with all the cousins.

They loved staying up each night to play cards with the "older cousins" and K loved driving the wave runner. E was a bit chilly, like his mother, and we often wore our light jackets around especially when we went into Yellowstone.

In Yellowstone we saw bear, elk and chipmunks (K loved the chipmunks), Old Faithful and the Painted Pots. We met up with our cousins and played in the river for a bit too.

 

We sure are thankful to have a great family to spend time with and who are willing to spend their Summer vacation time with us all!



{A Visit}

We were excited to be able to spend a day with Grandma Walker and Grandpa Will on Monday. They came to Vegas to deliver a few gifts they brought home from Italy for our family and spend the day with us.

The boys also got to be taught a fun 2 person Italian card game that they continue to play together each day and Grandma made cinnamon rolls with them too. That was the one thing they asked if she would do with them while she was here. There was a time when every visit to our house she would make cinnamon rolls with her. And this is on of their fondest memories of time spent with her.

We are happy to have them home again and excited that we will be able to visit with her more often now.

{Return Missionaries}

We traveled to Draper Utah, for a quick weekend trip to welcome home our Grandma Walker and Grandpa Will. They returned after serving an 18 month mission to Rome Italy.

We were excited to see them and to be able to attend their church meetings where they spoke of what they learned while being in Rome all that time. We got to visit with them and help get everything ready for the luncheon at their home after church.

We are so happy to have them back in the States again and only a car ride away.