It was a fabulous weekend with the Nielson's at a cabin in Schofield, up Price Canyon. It was a huge cabin with three floors. The top floor had TONZ of legos and building type toys for kids to play with for hours, along with a room and loft with bunk beds. The main floor had two bedroom, living room, family room, dining room, kitchen. The downstairs had two bathrooms and four more bedrooms along with pool table and ping pong table and foosball. All this space meant we each had our own room and plenty of space for kids and adults to play and not run into each other too much...that's what you need with an average of 50 people! Peter and I could honestly say we hadn't seen Corey have that much fun EVER. He was never in site...always playing with cousins outside on the swing set, or upstairs building something. He giggled often and ran, not walked, everywhere. He was having the time of his life. Same with the other kiddos. It was so nice because kids could go anywhere without any adult supervision and never be too far away. There was representation from all the siblings, even if some spouses or kids were missing.
Makayla and Brielle:
This is the swing Corey literally lived on the entire 3 days. It was mostly with his cousin Michael who is the same age.
We built boats out of cardboard and duct tape. Each family built their own. It was pretty hilarious!
Michael and Corey:
Testing out our boats: (it's name was the Minion)
The duct taped sucked and was peeling off...needless to say our boat was letting water in fast :)
Mannings: there boat did pretty well! They didn't use much duct tape which ended up being the key
Loveless'
We built bottle rockets. The dad's had just as much fun as the kids:
Rocket's name: The Flying Minion
Waiting to launch rockets!
It was such an enjoyable weekend. It couldn't have turned out any better! One crazy thing to note: Peter had been waiting for a call from Tooele for an interview with their EMS department. Well reception was very hit and miss here. Well he had missed like 4 calls from them. So he tried to call them back and couldn't get a hold of anyone. After calling Travis who works there we finally were waiting for the guy to call us back to schedule. So we get an extension cord (because Peter's phone was almost dead) and he puts it in the one spot that got service. Well low and behold he misses the call AGAIN. Finally he gets a hold of him and got the last interview spot! Whew, that was close. So here's to that next adventure!
For a more full review please refer to the inserts that will be put in this blog book. A Nielson Newsletter put together by Penny and Doyle.
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