We had a pirate party which included a cannonball fight (water fight), pirate spyglass making, face painting, treasure hunt, and pinata. We then enjoyed dinner consisting of Salty Sea Dogs (hot dogs), Golden Treasure (mac n' cheese), Pirate Jewels (fruit snacks), Swords (green beans and french fries), Fish Bait (gummy worms and gold fish crackers), and of course Pirates Grog (root beer.) For dessert we had Flaming Cannonballs (S'mores.) I had fun putting the party together and I think the kids had fun at least! :) 
Natha, Lars and Heather hanging out. Heather making her cute faces. :)
Valden, Joelle, and Darion 
Alex and Joelle had a surprise visit from their mothers sisters! It was soo good to see them and I know Alex and Joelle couldn't get enough of them!
Most of the Bodily's and some of the McCrackens. We've got a huge family! 
Some of them went mini golfing. From what I hear, Valden won as usual.
Thain and Lisa's family and Valden and Collettes family and Brian and I all went up to Glaceir for Sunday afternoon and we had a blast! We played in the lake, took a short hike, and enjoyed each others company. It was a very relaxing afternoon.
Whitney enjoyed being out in the sunshine and playing in the water.
Valden and Darion always found the most exciting places to play in the water. 
I think Shalyce is going to be just like the rest of us and take a million pictures wherever she goes.
Telle loved the water and was so tuff and wore flip flops on our hike.
Whitney kept jumping from rock to rock.
Lisa is such a great mom. She was so brave to let her kids play in the river.
Bryce just relaxed with his feet in the water.
Everyone seemed to be enjoying the sunshine and water. It was so beautiful!
Tyler found all kinds of fun stuff to play in.
Brian enjoyed the trees and I think he's coming to love Montana as much as I do. For the longest time he thought I was crazy for loving such an ugly state... He'd never seen the upper part!
Bryce and Joelle enjoying the pretty scenery.
The mouth of the river into Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park.
How can you not love this place!?
After we played in the lake for a bit, Telle was showing me her awesome new fashion! Telle is such a fun little girl. Here are two of my favorite quotes from the trip from her."When I have kids, you'll be dead" said to... Me!!! I'm not that old!!!
"Jennifer, you glow!" also said to me when she saw my white legs!
Ty was so excited to get in the water!
Joelle, Miki, Bryce and Collette hanging out on the beach of Lake McDonald.
Ty was so excited to get in the water!
Joelle, Miki, Bryce and Collette hanging out on the beach of Lake McDonald.
I love this picture of Darion. He found the one patch of light to put his shoes on.
Isn't this lake so pretty?
The lake was surprisingly warm, despite what Telle's face says.
The kids loved the water.
I couldn't resist putting my feet in.
Glacier is such a beautiful and interesting place. I'll never get sick of it.
We lit off rockets while at Thain and Lisa's house.
I don't know who had more fun. The kids or Lars and Brian. They were like kids themselves!
Thain and Brian loading the rockets for launching.
After the launched, the kids all chased them down in the field. Tyler was so funny. He'd get his eye set on where he thought the rocket was going and just take off. He wouldn't look up to see where the wind was taking it. He'd end up on the opposite side of the house!
Such a pretty backdrop for the rockets!
The sun was so bright it was hard to see them sometimes.
Jonathon enjoyed just watching the rockets with me.
Nate was so proud of himself after he launched his rocket. Doesn't he look happy?
A smoke trail left behind a rocket.
Lars setting up one of the rockets for the kids.
Even the girls got into it. Go Heather!
Brian was showing off his "Catch."
Lisa and Nate enjoying the show.
After a while we started noticing the grass was "smoking" or at least it looked like it!
Heather making another face at me. :)
Jonathon and Lars eating their Huckleberry Icecream. If you haven't tried it, it's addicting!
Heather and I always have to get a picture. We didn't realise we had Brian, Natha, and Erin in it too!
We made S'mores and enjoyed each others company in Thain's pit.
Kevin, Tyler, and Brian wrestled on the trampoline.
Dad finally relaxed. He doesn't get to do that very often, and my cousins got to see "Uncle Scott" be himself. :)
During the pirate party we did face painting. I love that Heather chose a white beard.
We had so much fun dressing up and taking pictures.
Lars ran around with an electric bug zapper and killed a ton of bugs. This was his "Olympic" run.
During the water fight. The adults took pictures and the kids played.
Marianne and Alex's sword fight.
Leilla is a tree hugger.
The kids dug into the treasure chest. We had lots of fun stuff in there.
Kevin looked great in his pirate costume.
My pirate costume.
Rod and Jonene's family. Jayden, Taryn, Zarin, Leila, Kaylani. Rod and Jonene in front. Calden is on his mission and wasn't able to come.
Lars and Natha's family. Jonathon and Heather. Lars and Natha in front. Chris wasn't able to come.
Scott and Jenala's family. Brian, Me (Jen), Scott, Jenala, Alex, Kevin. Brooke, Grandma Bodily, Grandpa Bodily, and Erin in front. Michael is on his mission and wasn't with us.
Food, Food, and more Food!
Kallen and Morgan got into a wrestling match.
Jayden got wrapped up in a pirate wrap game.
Valden and Collette's family. Joelle, Miki, Collette, Valden, Bryce and Darion. Johnny is on his mission and Taj wasn't able to come.
We sure had a fun time.
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