July Fourth

Last year was the first time that Emmett got their own fireworks show. Of course we missed it last year and this year we planned to get there but got busy playing Volleyball and got left too late to make it in time. But we got a great view of them from the Bench, so we stayed up there and watched. I didn't get pictures because the camera was dead so i just had Ben's cellphone. Here is a video of the Grand Finale. I just happened to start to video right as it was starting and got the whole thing. Kyzer LOVED them! Every time one went off he would say "BOOM"! It was so cute! Sadly, this is all I have from this years 4th of July. Amber took a bunch of pictures with her camera of everyone while we did fireworks at Lonnie & Jenifers, so hopefully she will send us some, cause she got some really good ones!

Mouritsen Family Reunion 7/3/10

Over the fourth of July Weekend every year Ben's Family has a Reunion. This year the Theme was from their Scottish background. They played games from Scotland, learned a Scottish Dance, learned where they inherited the Scottish background from, learned a lot about the Scottish and what they eat, and many more things.  It is always so much fun to get together with the Family and learn so much! Here are (LOTS OF) pictures from the second day of the reunion.

                               

My Boy

The Kiddos doin' some fishin'.

They threw in an empty hook and got back a gummy worm.

Chillin'

Poor Jacob was so sick = (

Warming up for the big show

Showin' off their kilts 

Left to right:

Jeramiah, baby, Chad, Paul, Will, Tommy, Uncle Ralph

ahhhh, the shade!

Daniel & Eileeny

Ben & Adam decided they wanted Kilts too.

They had the little kids in a Log throwing contest too. Helen was AMAZING!

Roman

Amy playing the Bag Pipes up on the hill.

Almost everyone who dressed up

Ben & Landon                                               

He came back every time with a cookie or two. Silly Boy!

 

Benji in the Rock throwing contest

The start of the tug-of-war...

...and then they broke it.

Ben, taking Jeramiah down. LOL

Paul & Ammon

Colten & Landon

Pretty awesome throw Benji!

Coltens Ballet move with his deep toughly yell. LOL

Chad, Attempting the 130lber. 

    

Music Time

MaryAnne playing dress-up.                                            

'Strip The Willow'...

... aka ' The Virginia Reel'.                                                                                      

Very Musically talented

Amy

Little Edward

all the kiddos were falling asleep during music time.

Aunt Sharon & Uncle Ray

  Music time always finishes off the Reunion.                

         

Videos 7/3/10

Here are a few of the videos we took at the family reunion during the games and stuff. This years Theme was from the Mouritsen Heritage of Scotland, so all the games they had came from Scotland.  It was really neat to see our Family doing these things from long ago, and the Guys LOVED it!  They are fun videos and I wish I could post all of them, but there are WAY too many!

This is the Tug-of-war video. It was SOO funny to watch this! This rope was 3 to 4 inches around (easy), and the first two times they started they broke it in half. The 3rd times the charm right? Most definitely! They had to make two groups so that they wouldn't brake it again, but it worked. The wars didn't last long (cause our Guys are so strong, lol), but they sure were a lot of fun and the Guys enjoyed themselves.

This is the type of wrestling they did over there. I'm not sure what they call it, but it was really simple and they had so much fun doing it!

Kyzer was so into watching them play all the games and the next morning he walked up to Ben and put his arms around him and starting growling and jerking him around like they do in the video. It was hilarious!

This is the Log throwing.  The point of Log throwing in Scotland is so they could use the log as a bridge when there wasn't one and they needed to get across a river. So the Goal is to throw it so that the one end hits the ground and then it flips over as strait as possible and the other end hits the ground on the other side and...you have a bridge to walk across. I Believe they had 5 logs and they ranged from 60 lbs. to 130lbs. If you could get it to flip strait enough to make a bridge then you got to proceed to the next biggest log and so on. 

 Here is Ben Throwing the smallest. He didn't get to the last two because Adam broke the 115lb. and nobody could really even throw the 130 lb. But it was fun and they all did awesome!

 My Favorite part of these videos is Kyzer cheering in the background. Somehow he knew when they were supposed to go and he knew when to say "awwww...or YAAAAAYYYYY"! If you turn the volume up you can hear him really well in this one.

This one is of Adam ( our whoppin' 130lbs. 20 year old who did just as good as anybody) throwing the 80lber. (I believe).

Here is Colten Throwing the 90lber. ( I think). He strongly believed (because Chad told him) that if you yelled really deep and toughly that you could always get it over. lol, if you listen you can hear him. And Honestly, I think it really does Help A LOT!

This one is of Nathan trying to throw the 130lber. It took a long time to get it up onto his shoulder and he still couldn't get it, but a few of them at least tried. I just wanted to post this one to show how difficult it was to even stand still with this one.  Good Job guys! You all did great!

Trip to Idaho- More visiting

These are a few pics of one of the days we spent with my sister Kami and her family and Grandpa & Grandma Pulley.  Grandpa & Grandma got this little double trike thing for Emily to use but she didn't have anyone small enough to ride in the back or even small enough to peddle it while she rode in the back, so she really enjoyed having Kyzer there to ride with her. They had a BLAST!

Erika is the most Tomboy-ish girl you will EVER meet. no joke!

Having so much fun!

Talkin' to Gram

That night we went and had dinner with Kami & Andy & the kids. Here is what the kids did while waiting for dinner.

He LOVES the Trampoline!

A couple days later we went on bought Fireworks. Between Uncle Lonnie, Adam, and Us we spent $300. couldn't believe it! BUT, we had two VERY fun filled nights! 

Kyzer laved playing with the football!

This is a ladybug firework. They were so cute and were great fun to watch, and of course, I picked them out.

Adam making Sparkler Bombs

Trip to Idaho

We took our yearly trip to Idaho in June and July and had a GREAT time!  We had lots of family BBQ's, went swimming @ Black Canyon Dam with family, went to Roaring springs water park with Michelle, Hesston, Adam, and Jacob (unfortunately we didn't get any pictures there : ( ), went to Orofino and had a picnic and swimming @ the Clear Water River, got Sealed in the Temple, floated the Payette River, Played lots of ValleyBall, attended an awesome Mouritsen Family Reunion, and had lots of fun visiting time! 

I am going to have to do several post for the trip because we have so many pictures, so heres the start! There will be lots of video's also!

Benji & Ky playin' football

Hesston

Can  you tell these two are brothers?

Cole

Trying extremely hard not to smile for the camera

Family swimming and chattin' at the Dam.

cute CUTE kids! They had sand flying everywhere.

We had a BBQ after this but didn't have the camera out. While we were outside eating a huge wind storm came in and almost blew us away! The kids took blankets out and hung on to the corners to see if the wind would pick them up, and it was definitely pulling them around. I was sorry I didn't get pictures of it.