YUMA and the RIVER . . .

Last weekend we made a trip down to Yuma to stay with the Haines Family and spend a day at the river, my most favorite vacation place EVER, in fact Clay & I hope to one day have some kind of place on the river. Luckily we were able to get out of town at a pretty decent time on Friday so when we arrived in Yuma we had time to stop by the Brandenberger's house and see my Aunt Donna & Uncle Steve and to our surprise, Jake even got home before we left so we got to visit with him as well! They fed us sonoran tacos and beer and we had a really really great visit!! Aunt Donna busted out Jared, Jake & Jason's huge box of lego's from when they were kids and Trey & Rhett were in hog heaven!! Rilyn had so much fun throwing the ball for the dog ... huge surprise because she normally doesn't particularly like dog's!!

Donna, Me & Jamie!! This was an extra special trip for me because the 3 of us have been friends since kindergarten and have always kept in really good touch but this was the very 1st time we have all 3 gotten together with all of our kids!! Pretty cool stuff!!

Rhett & Taylor were total buds the entire weekend ... I'm thinkin Taylor might have a little bit of an eye for Rhett!! Haahaaa!!

Clayton helping Trey reel in his carp!! The boys each caught two fish, all of them pretty good size!! I have a feeling that mom is in for a lot of fishing in the future as the boys have caught the fishing bug as bad as daddy!! The good news is that they are at a point where they can cast & reel all by themselves!! In fact they both reeled in a bass all on their own last weekend!!

Trey's carp!!

Rhett's catfish!!

The whole clan: (mine) Rilyn, Rhett, Trey (Donna's) Teagan, Koen (Jamie's) Jack, Taylor

Jesse (our captain) took us into this little cove thru the tully's and everyone got out and hiked up to this old Miner's house, where someone used to live and mine!! Rilyn was sleepin on the boat so I didn't go but the boys loved it and I sent daddy with the camera!! From the pic's it looked pretty interesting! When they got back Trey told me "momma they even cooked with a stick and I bet there's no way they could have had pizza"!!!

Once we were back at the dock's Jamie gave all the kids some left over bread & chips and they got to feed the ducks ... Rilyn absolutely loved it ... she was so excited I thought she was going to go right over the edge of the boat!!

Rhett, Taylor & Koen after bath time ... 2 monsters and a lion!!!

There are tons and tons more pictures I could share of our weekend, we had such a great time!! Thank you Haines Family for letting us crash your pad and for taking us to the river ... we will be back sooner than later!!!