I'm hungry Mom!

Sam found a box of his crackers in his diaper bag I had left sitting out from our trip and started feeding himself. I had to snap a picture it's the first time I've seen him do anything like this and watching him eat is pretty funny. Maybe I'm home too much, everything Sam does is pretty funny, although I think most would agree kids in general are pretty dang funny.

The Samuel Martin family reunion

Every three years, the descendants of Samuel Martin, Jared's great grandfather get together in McCall, ID for their family reunion. Three years ago was my first time at the reunion, Jared and I passed out wedding announcements at the reunion. This time we came with little Sam and passed him around to all the family members. We had such a great time and I learned a lot of Jared's family history. Here are some pictures from the reunion. This first one is Sam with Papa Mel, who has now nick-named Sam, Bubba.

Every reunion there's a 3 on 3 basketball tournament. Jared's team won. Here's Sam on the side lines.
Jared took a break to play hide-and-seek with Sam.
Here's all the Mel Martin family. All of Jared's siblings were here at the reunion, a first in many years. Sam had not had his nap that afternoon and so he was not happy at having to sit still.
They have a ropes course at the camp so Jared and I competed on all the challenges. The zip line was the most fun.

The lake was so beautiful but a little cold, Sam was a trooper though. There was a trampoline on the water. Bella, our niece, jumped with us. I think Jared used to be a cheerleader. Go Team Martin!

Sam's enjoying his propel on the lawn not so much the life jacket on the boat.

We even got in a little wake boarding. I'm not sure who this is on the air-chair but I thought it was a great picture so I had to throw it in.

Here's one more picture of Sam just because he's so cute.

Christmas in July

Jared finally got a new bike a couple of weeks ago after getting his old bike stolen out of our garage over a year ago. It was like watching a kid tearing open his christmas presents as I watched Jared unwrap his new mountain bike he bought on ebay.

Celebrity look-alikes

Okay so I saw this on another blog so I had to try it and the results are listed below. I think everyone should try it with a few different pics and see who you can how many celebrities you can look like.

Jared's celebrity look-alikes

My celebrity look-alikes

Lake Powell

Jared, Sam and I went to Lake Powell last weekend. Jared has been wanting to take me there for years since I had never been and Lake Powell is a fond part of his childhood. So, when we heard Jared's sister and family would be there we decided to invite ourselves along. I found the desert landscape beautifully set between the bright blue and blue water. Oh, yeah...check out Jared's sweet moves on the wake board.

Mine are pretty good too...I learned the last time I went wakeboarding with our friends Rick and Janae, that if I don't want a major headache from face planting to let go of the rope and I'm getting really good at staying inside the wake.

My goal was to jump the wake and I did it although we don't have a picture to prove it. I never actually landed it but the important thing is that I got air.

Our 7 yr old nephew, Max, took some tips from Jared on how to ski...

Don't forget about Sam...

He spent his time sleeping or in the arms of all his cousins. It was too bad he was teething the whole time. His second little bottom central incisor finally broke the surface the last night there. Poor little guy.

Thanks--Mike and Michele, we thoroughly enjoyed our stay on The Rector Set or Sumertime (I'm not sure which one is the actual name.)