Gummersall Reunion 2012

Hit the border!!

On our way!

Ready to get to the Farm!

Last weekend we traveled up to the farm in Grace, ID where we spent 4 fun filled days with family.  With 60+ people crammed into a farm house and surrounding tents it was a crazy Gummersall-fest. 

Thursday: Arrival Day.  Lance was so giddy to get out of town and get up to the farm that we arrived in Grace at 12:30pm... and were the 3rd ones there out of many travelers.  

Lance got tired from driving.. so I took over while he took a nap!

Most didn't come until 7-10pm, but we spent our time setting up our tent and I picked out a lovely spot under a shady tree to finish reading A Child Called It for my psych class.  We spent much of the late night just talking and catching up and it wasn't until 12:00am that we finally got in our tent and ready to get some sleep.

While setting up our tent we realized that our rain cover was no where to be found.  We didn't make a big deal about it because the forecast didn't say it was going to rain.  So into our open tent we went with ellie under the covers and Winston laying on a blanket in the corner of the tent.  3:00am rolled around with gusts of wind that were swaying the tent from side to side.  Drop. Drop. Drop.... it starts to lightly rain.  I woke up in a panic thinking my phone and clothes were going to get drenched.  Lance reassured me they'd be okay and he responded to my question of if we should go inside with "no... lets just take cover for a bit."  We took our other sleeping back and put it on top of our blanket to create a waterproof barrier and pulled our blanket over our heads to not get rained on.   It lightly rained on us for 3 hours with sparatic DOWN POURS! Everything was SOAKED.  At 6:30 am I couldn't handle being wet or cold any longer.  I grabbed my pillow and headed into the house thinking I could sleep a little more, but was sadly greeted by Grandma and Grandpa Gummersall who were already awake and getting started on breakfast!  Grandpa came up with a brilliant idea for me to go sleep in my car.  I ventured out there and let me tell you... it was heavenly.  I laid the seat back put on my hoodie sweatshirt and fell asleep until 9am!

Friday:  Float the River.

We ventured to Lava where we separated into two groups:  the pool or the river. Many of the aunts and uncles as well as the older cousins chose to float the river in tubes.  On our first pass down the river I was in a tube with 2 of Lance's Aunts.  Sitting in the front I got most of the splashes as we journied down the rapids.  It was a pleasant and really fun ride down the river until we arrived close to the end.  Our tube flipped over and none of us could grip our feet on the slippery rocks.  The current pushed us further down the river tubeless as our shins, knees, head, and feet scraped the under water rocks.  Needless to say we were all extremely scared and were hesistant as to whether or not we even wanted to float again.  We paid 6 bucks for 2 hours of floating, so we just sucked it up and kept going. This time we through a guy in each of our tubes incase we fell again. 

We came back to the farm and set up everything for an awesome adult volleyball game (which my team won... not Lances!)

soaked.

Wet from dominating the kiddie pool

Super hot all weekend. Searched for shade.

Both dogs were PISSED that I chained them up to their kennels by our tent... they wanted to party with the people so they dragged their kennels 50 feet from where I left them.. kennels tipped over.

Saturday:  Kickball slip and slide!

Lance was so excited to have thought up a fun game that they played 2 years ago at the reunion.  Kickball slip and slide.  At the time we only had a slip and slide to home base, but Lance gathered all the materials prior to leaving SLC so we could have a slip and slide into EVERY BASE!  With painters plastic, kiddie pools, and 4 hoses we were in business.  Towards the last inning Lance went to kick the ball and kicked it straight into the quanset and we thought it was a home run.  After running ALL of the bases and sliding into home with water splashing everywhere, the referee said it was a foul ball and Lance totally pissed had to kick again.  Lance didn't realize that where he was kicking was completely drenched from his slide into home so just as he kicked BOTH of his legs went FLYING into the air and Lance was down for the count on his back.  Broken he said forget it and went to the end of the kicking line. 

After Church Sunday.  Jared refused to be IN the picture...(but he was there)

Sunday: Church 

Sunday we spent the morning watching the olympics and going to sacrament.  Afterwards we just packed up our things and puppies and hit the road.  Our two dogs have never been so happy and free as they were on the farm.  They didn't run away so they were lucky enough to be free and not tied up.  They ran around and played... and played... and played! They were so so so exhausted by the time we got into the car that they slept the entire way home.

pooped out... Winston placing himself in the most awkward positions

friends....

lovers?....