Family Festivities

On Saturday, July 6th, we had our annual Tolman family get-together. Except, this time, Josh's sister Tiffany and her family didn't come (we missed them), and the Harris/Randall family clan (about 40 in number) did.

 

Josh & Edward grilled hamburgers, and we had a large, late afternoon, lunch feast in Edward & Kathy's beautiful backyard! It was super delicious!

 

 

Here was my contribution--Ranch Cucumber Bites with fresh-from-the-garden radish slices:

There was lots of sitting & visiting...

Kathy & Josh

 

Malachi & Molly {his girlfriend that we all adore}

 

Gideon & Alyssa (with cousin Brian Randall's baby boy)

 

Several of the Harris/Randall women

And lots of playing outside...

Gideon pulling my 4 boys on the giant stride--

notice Micah's trick of riding it upside-down?!!

Playing on tubes/boats/rope swings in the ditch

Menfolk playing the annual basketball game of "Lightning"

Swinging on the gigantic stride and jumping in the ditch:

 And the Tolman boys/men worked all morning on building the waterslide near our house, and everyone enjoyed riding it that afternoon, too!

 

Here's a few shots of the boys in our family riding the homemade waterslide:

Jonah

Gideon

 Malachi

 

Micah

 

Ammon

Kanyon (this was the first time he's ever attempted riding this waterslide!)

and Josh (this was my favorite slide photo of the day!)

It was a nice family afternoon full of festivities. I love where we live, and having the opportunity to have people visit in the summers, because our ranch is full of fun activities!