This past week was our first Allaway family reunion. This is my (Priscilla's dad's) family, for those of you who are wondering. We got together in Trout Lake on my grandfather's farm and it was perfect. This experience was like traveling back in time to my childhood, but being able to take my own son with me to the place and the people that meant so much to me growing up. Here are a few pictures and reflections of our time there. Above is a picture of the hay ladder, where they used to load hay into the hay mow (mow as in rhymes with cow, unsure of spelling). All of my cousins and I as kids would climb up the hay ladder into the hay mow where we built forts, played hide and seek, and we made a giant swing with a fire hose once. The hay mow was our favorite place.
Don't you miss the days when you wore your swimsuit all day and were unashamed and it didn't matter if you had a full diaper and were dirty. Man, those were good times, and here are all my cousins kids doing exactly that. Liam is with Jeb in the middle and Jayden and Eleesha (my sister Stephanie's kids are on the left and right).
Okay, so my cousins are hicks. But they are really nice people! I am proud of my family. Here is Jeb shooting a potato gun that they made out of pvc pipes. If you look very closely you can see the potato just being fired out of the shaft. It's hard to believe that just a little bit of aerosol hairspray can make a potato fly like that!
Liam and Jeb watching the cows feed. My grandpa was a dairy farmer, so we visited a nearby dairy and watched them milk the cows and the kids fed baby cows. Liam loved it and was amazed at all the animals!
Oh the fun we had! The food was great, it was awesome to see family all together in one place, and we had such fun riding bikes, feeding pigs, playing horseshoes, shooting guns. Can't wait to go back again next year! This was like the best vacation at the best time for us! And we finished off the weekend with a big bang. God gave us a huge thunder and lightning show that went for hours right around us! The lightning lit up the whole sky and the thunder rolled. It was awesome! I love the city, but there is something about the country that I miss. I love the simplicity, the dirt, the peacefulness, the quiet. The city is great, but I believe a little country is good for your soul!
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One of my favorite memories of visiting your family in Trout Lake is going out on the patio to watch your dad and Jason put on a show with the potato gun. One time they hit the roof of your neighbors' barn and I was just sure the whole thing was going to collapse. Potato demolition!
gina, i'm so glad you've been able to witness the amazing potato shooting phenomenon! it's quite entertaining!
It makes me smile and giggle every time I think about it. Your dad was so cute, all giddy like a little kid and serious like a physicist at the same time. Hee!
I find it so fitting that the only adult in the picture of children is Jeb. Totally fits in.
yeah...he likes to wear his swimsuit all day and play in dirt just like the rest of 'em!
I love the picture of the tractor. That should be framed. It sounds like the all american festival. I love that barn. Is that where you had your reception?
no, that's not where we got married. we were just up a couple fields from grandpa's farm though. jeb took the pic with the tractor and the barn. i love it and i think i will frame it because i already have 2 paintings of grandpa's farm up in our house now. i like pictures of barns and tractors a lot, but this was like "it" for me because it brings back those sentimental feelings of growing up!
guys! im not even a part of this family and im so caught up in it right now! love this post, i feel like it should be in country magazine or something. i wish i lived on a farm....
sounds like the ideal family reunion, so glad youve got such a wonderful fam!!
Hey guys, long time no see! Little Liam is very adorable. We missed you at the big cascade reunion!
tara! country magazine is a good idea, i'm sending it in! by the way, you have a good family to...because you guys all get to be on oprah!!! :)
brenda, jacob is adoreable too...we've been reading your blog! i haven't checked in a while though becuase...well...you know why...you're a mom and busy and all that!
Hey how did Witness do this year?
Awesome! And we actually had an audience for them to perform for this year!
I miss Trout Lake and being in a swimsuit all day walking down the gravel road with you Pris!
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