Sun Valley-Day 1

We met up with Blake's family in Sun Valley for a weekend of fun.  We arrived on Wednesday evening and after having a pizza party to start of the vacation, we headed up Trail Creek Road to go on a one mile hike up Waterfall Trail to Trail Creek Falls 



Who doesn't love to climb up rocks?  All the cousins made it on top of this rock; Sophie received a little help

The girl cousins....Brynn, Allie, Jane, and Lucy

 A picture doesn't do justice with mountains.
There were some impressive peaks off in the distance that we saw on our hike

Thursday morning we woke up and went on a bike ride with ALL the kids.  I'm pretty sure we looked like a circus train as we cruised through town with bike trailers, tag-a-longs, kids bikes, adult bikes; you name it.  We stopped at the bottom of the ski resort and tossed all the kids onto one of the chair lifts for a picture

She wore an itsy bitsy tiny weeny yellow polka dot bikini....We got in some swim time before afternoon naps

We also had some R&R after swimming.  We popped in some movies for the kids to watch.  The girl's all gathered in one room to watch a "chic" flick together

Papa took us all out to dinner at Trail Creek Cabin.   Dinner was fantastic and the service was the best I've ever had at a restaurant

More pictures of all the cousins....I can't believe we got all 11 kids to sit still



Family picture at Trail Creek

We wrapped up the evening with round 2 of swimming for the day

Allie, Jane, and Natalia loved running and jumping in from the side

Sophie loves her flotation device.  I don't even know what to call it, but she is able to float, spin around, and swim all on her own.   After an incident of being face down in the water from her life vest that is supposed to flip her onto her back; I am much more comfortable having her swim in this thing.

Sophie is a crazy girl in the water and will just jump in from the side of the pool.  I'm glad she loves to wear the "elephant" as she calls it and can enjoy her summer in the pool along with her mamma