50 YEARS!

We went home to visit my family and celebrate my parent's 50th Anniversary at the beginning of August. (We celebrated a couple weeks early so Ryan could be there). It was fun to reminisce and visit with family and friends I haven't seen for a while. It was really fun to look through old pictures and reminisce while we were getting ready for the open house. I started scanning my parents old slides months ago looking for pictures we could use for the party, and found several gems we didn't know existed. We learned a little about my parents while searching for pictures. We have very few pictures of them together, more pictures of my dad as a child, and my mom is holding or playing with a child in almost every picture of her.

One of my favorite slide discoveries, taken at Laura Lee's 8th Birthday
My mom, Pops, Laura Lee, Dad, Aunt Nell, Lance
Aunt Nell was actually Great Grandpa's (Pops) wife, but my grandma and her sister couldn't bring themselves to call her "mom" so they called her "Aunt Nell" instead.

Another favorite. My (barefoot) mom and dad at the Idaho Falls temple shortly before or after they were married.

It's been a while since we've stopped at this rest stop... we thought it was beautiful. Dakota had to read the sign about the Boneville Salt Flats, and asked a lot of questions I couldn't answer about the races.

Cutting the cake, then and now.

They said the didn't want a cake, but luckily some of their employees surprised them with this awesome tractor cake.

These girls took their job of shooing flies from the food very seriously.

We finally got some family pictures!