Every year when I was growing up, we would float Big Springs with our cousins, aunts and uncles and grandparents. It was so much fun and we loved it! Mike and I haven't floated since we had kids because...well, I am not sure what the excuses were. Anyway, this year, my aunt Rosalie and uncle Ryan and my cousins Lane and Megan and their families invited Mike and I to bum along on a river float! It was really fun, but I remember it being a lot more fun and way less work when I was a kid.
This is what we looked like starting out. Aidan wasn't much fun at first. He kept crying and whining and so I thought it was going to be even more miserable. However, halfway through, we figured out he just wanted to put his feet and hands in and play in the water...not float in a canoe!
Mike thought the kids would have fun in a raft to float down, with us pulling them behind. About half way through the trip, he said it was like pulling an iceberg and so he deflated the raft and they rode with us. This is how Cambree rode most of the way in the raft...
Soon, we were able to adopt out one of our children to another canoe. This is Brinlee hitching a ride with Jaxon, Courtney and Megan! She rode the rest of the way down the river with them. (Thanks you Anderson people!) Megan is due to have a baby in about 3 weeks!?! Crazy isn't she?
This is my aunt and uncle and Mikayla... she is Lane and Chelsie's little girl. My girls love playing with their girls!
Chelsie, Lane, Makenzie and Mason... (Ryan and Rosalie in the background along with everyone else in the state!)
Here Aidan is at the end of the trip kicking his feet in the water.
At the end we just played in the river while we waited for the boys to shuttle back the cars!
