Family reunion in Idaho

Every couple of years the Higginson side of the family likes to hold a reunion with all of Grandma Higginson's siblings and their kids. This year it was up in Idaho at one of the family member's farms. We had so much fun and, even though I've been married into Ty's family for 5 years, I don't know everyone so this was a great opportunity for me to get to know the family better.

Dwight and his wife, Jamie, were the hosts and they had such fun activities planned for all the kids. Right in their front yard was a bounce house, which Milo headed straight for. Next to the bounce house was a blow up slide that I was unaware had water at the bottom... that was where Milo headed next. Buh bye cute outfit that I had planned for the day and hello swimsuit for the duration of the family reunion :) They also had a large pool set up in the backyard that Uncle Kip was kind enough to take Milo swimming in for a bit.

Dwight and Jamie cooked the most delicious hamburgers and homemade fries from potatoes that they grow on their very own farm. The adults were all able to sit and catch up with everyone while all the kids got to be free and run around on the farm. Milo spent almost an entire hour playing with all of the many dump trucks that were in a sand box and then another hour chasing the chickens around. It was little boy heaven! Dwight was even kind enough to let the kids feed a bottle of milk to the two new baby cows that they had.

After keeping Milo up hours past his nap time, he passed out in the car as we decided whether or not we would stay the night in Idaho or head back home. Some of the family were going huckleberry hunting the next day and we knew that was an opportunity we could not pass up! We got a hotel room to share with Kip and Linda and headed to Walmart to get some pants and buckets for the next day. Did anyone know that Walmart sells pants for $8? Not me! I almost became converted to shopping at Walmart forever after I saw all their amazing prices...almost.

The next day we headed out bright and early and headed up the mountain to pick some berries. We went with the York family and our guide was Larry's cousin, Scott Beech. I have always wanted to do this! We were super stoked. Milo LOVED grabbing all the berries and eating them.

He eventually discovered that I was putting tons of berries in my bucket so took it upon himself to hold it for me and eat all of them.

Milo lasted for quite awhile picking berries but then he was getting super tired of not really being able to walk around amongst all the tall bushes. Ty and I took turns taking him back to the car for snacks and we even managed to get him to take a little nap in the car as well. During one of our moments trying to pass the time we decided to take some selfies :)

After spending a long day picking huckleberries (and yes, it was everything I imagined it would be, we had a huge bag full of berries!) we headed back to Utah. On this trip, we discovered that Milo does amazing on road trips, hallelujah!

Now, with all of our huckleberry pickings, we had to make some of the famous family huckleberry jam. Linda and Kip came over to our house the next day and we spent all night canning some delicious jam.

We were so proud of ourselves that the jam turned out and it is the best jam we have ever had! We all had way too much fun and hope to make this a tradition.