Ice Blocking

In the middle of June one of Ryan's cousins was getting married so his family from Seattle came over. I haven't been able to spend much time with them in the past so it was a lot of fun getting to spend time with them all. Ryan and his cousin Mike were helping cook for the wedding reception and we were all helping keep things going and it was a lot of fun.
Here they are getting ready to cook.

Here they are toasting after cooking a LOT of hamburgers for the wedding. 

The next day was the last day we were all going to have together and Ryan and I were trying to find something to do with his cousin Gage that is 13 and Ryan came up with Ice Blocking! Ryan and I almost did this with his friends a couple of years ago and then it never happened so I was excited to finally get to do this. Ryan calls it "sledding for the summer time". Basically you ride big blocks of ice down a hill. We put some foil tins on top of it to keep our pants dry and it was a ton of fun. After awhile we got the rest of his cousins into it. Here we're all getting ready to go.

There Ryan goes!

 And he crashes. That's Gage right next to him because he just went down right before Ryan.

There Gage goes again and that's Austin in the corner.

There I go. I didn't fall TOO much that day!

Here's Jennifer.

Here are all the boys getting ready to go. His cousin Mike was going to take his son Austin down. They were using a double ice block, two blocks with a bigger tin. We found that to be more stable than just one block.

It was a lot of fun getting to spend time with his family and can't wait to see them all again in September for another wedding!