Glanzer Family Reunion

Birthday Boy Gavin!!

This guy brings so much excitement to our lives!  He has a zest for life that is so fun to watch!  He can be the most loving and helpful little guy!  Can he really be 7 years old now?

Going off the high dive during swimming lessons!

Making Selfies on my phone!  I love finding these little gems....

 Playing with one of his presents with Ellionna, which was a dinosaur dig. 

He wanted a Minecraft ice cream cake.  He had it all planned out.  We got a green colored cake and he put his Minecraft figures on top of it.

 

These summer days can be exhausting!

Backpacking the back country of WA

Tyler took the two oldest kids (and the dog) on their first backpacking trip.  It was a 12 mile hike roundtrip.  They had a lot of fun!  We love Washington and all the great outdoors!  This is practically in our backyard!

It was a little rainy on the first day.

 The deer were very friendly and inquisitive.

 B-E-A-utiful!

This place is called "Spider Meadows"

Tyler hopes to make this a yearly tradion each summer.

Utah

Makenzie and Jordan and two of their cousins got to go to a two day science camp with Southern Utah University.  It was up in the mountains and it seemed like they had a lot of fun!

Tyler had to fly home after a few days to get back to work.  Unfortunately, the next morning Ellionna woke up dry heaving and was not in a coherent state.  She scared me enough to take her to the ER.  They checked everything.  She wasn't happy about getting her blood drawn and getting an IV, but she  was still not acting normal.  They had to give her morphine to get a cat scan done.  After that, she started coming around and talking and acting herself!  She was mighty tired though...

  

And then she asked for ice cream... So we knew she was coming around, although she threw it back up soon after. 

I had to laugh because my Dad had his arms folded like the bear behind him and he didn't even know it!  

 Ellionna got sent home with all the tests coming back normal.  We think she was having some absent seizures, but we will never know for sure.  She has been fine ever since!

Sisterly love!!  

We took the kids down to St. George for the day.  There was a fun children's museum there.  They could have stayed all day there!

Little miss is now sitting up!!

We played outside at a splash pad and small stream.  

We saw the Sister Wives family there.  That's my claim to fame.

We enjoyed the Cedar City fourth of July parade.  Small hometown parades are the best!  It did not disappoint!

We, of course, had to visit Grandpa Sherman and decorate his grave.  We sure do miss him!

My Dad put the kids to work with mowing the lawns... a childhood memory that I have!  

We had a BBQ and fireworks with Josh and Mandy.  The dogs are Shayla's mom, Pixie, and brother, Otto.