Summer Fun Part I: Family Reunions

We got to hang out with both the Millington and Stocking families this summer. In fact, our summer started with the Stocking Reunion.

The Stocking reunion is just Randy's mom and dad and four brothers (no sisters). His oldest brother has some excellent Air Force contacts and managed to get this awesome cabin in Island Park for the reunion.

Two brothers were unable to be there. One just had surgery for a bleeding ulcer (poor timing for emergencies, Kyle). The other one only gets so much leave from his deployment to Iraq so his wife and kids came without him. However, the internet is a wonderful thing and we got the chance to talk to Daryl over Skype (it was evening for us and very early in the morning for him). He got to show us his gun, which he must have with him at all times, and the kids were ooing and ahhing.

We just spend a weekend hanging out with family and enjoyng the beauty of Island Park. We played some games, went fishing, and ate a lot of food.

One of my favorite parts of the reunion was how patient the older kids were with the younger ones. This is my favorite picture from the reuion. Here is my 17-year-old nephew, a senior in high school, allowing himself to be mauled by the little kids. What a trooper.

Towards the end of June my siblings descended upon the ole homestead for the Millington family reunion. This reunion always consists of family pictures. Pictures of the whole gang (35 of us), pictures of just the grandkids, pictures of the grandkids with the grandparents, pictures of each family, pictures of my siblings with our parents...you get the picture.

Saturday night was the traditional shooting.

This reunion also included church, target shooting, floating the river, four-wheeling, and, of course, food. One evening, Randy had the camera and snapped this great series of Dallas and his wife.

Sweet memories, for sure.