Emily hosted the DeBry cousin Olympic games which included races, tug-of-war, a shaving cream/cheese ball game, silly string and other chasing games. The kids loved it!
Lining all the kids up to start the games
The adults were ready to race too!
On your mark, get set, GO!
The kids had to take turns covering the boys' heads with shaving cream. Then they tossed cheese balls onto the shaving cream. The team with the most cheese balls, won! There were plenty of cheese balls in this family :)
The five lucky team candidates
Some more cheese balls!
tug of war
On one of the nights, we drove up to a great picnic spot in Provo canyon. David brought hoagie sandwiches and cake to celebrate the recent birthdays. Mark played football with some of the kids and David had a treasure hunt for them. He also had a Family Home Evening lesson on patriarchal blessings and brought copies of Mark's ancestors' blessings. It was really neat to read through them.
Chowing down on hoagies
Opa, Grandma, Mark and Makayla
Happy Birthday!
Adaline, Kay-Kay and Marilyn
Mark and the kids playing football
Emily and Laura. Beautiful!
Me and my honey-pie
David doing FHE on patriarchal blessings
On the way back down the canyon, we stopped off at Bridal Veil Falls and let the kids hike up. Mark tried to take Derek up the rocks at the bottom while I watched Jared cry because he wanted to go with Mark and Derek.
One afternoon we were privileged enough to take a tour of Michael Coleman's art studio. He is a famous western artist with paintings that usually start at $30,000. He has painted several things for multiple temples and sells a lot of paintings in the Jackson Hole area. His studio is eye candy and a little overwhelming. It was hard to even try and focus on one area of the room. He has traveled the world and is a huge hunter. Every animal in the room with very few exceptions was killed by him. His collection consists of mostly animals but has lots of Indian artifacts as well. Nothing is a replica. Everything is authentic! The craziest part was that he let (and encouraged!) all of the kids to look and touch and handle anything they wanted. Here are a few pictures from this amazing studio.
Where the magic happens
Yup. A shrunken head. Yup, it's real.
Anthony checking out a lot of Indian stuff. The belt hanging down is made of rows and rows of elk? deer? antelope? teeth. I can't remember which. Each moccasin is worth between $8,000 and $10,000 dollars. He has a ton of them!
Some of his latest paintings just strewn around the floor
Makayla loves owls. I don't know if she realized it was real....
More beautiful Indian stuff. Very heavily beaded and decorated
There were swords and guns everywhere!
A lion with a leopard skin on its back. Michael is in the background telling hunting stories
Several cool animal heads. I like the gator skin behind
Posing in the treasure trove
That, my friends, is a Narwhal tusk. Illegal to even get in the U.S. anymore
A sarcophagus from Egypt. The Smithsonian had it in the basement and sold it to Michael
A real, genuine, samurai suit. There is a box below that Michael hasn't even opened yet with histories of some of the Samurais
Michael's library
Michael loves this set. It is illegal to own these birds so he has them on loan from the Bean Museum. Whenever they want to display them, he takes them back. Otherwise, they sit perched in his hallway.
How many heads can you count?
We asked Michael what one of his rarest possessions is. Here is one of only two known buffalo fetuses. Obviously the head is missing. The round, beaded patch is where the umbilical chord was.
This is the only replica in the whole house. Michael used to have a real flag like this but the government found out about it and made him turn it over to them.
Michael Coleman is a wonderful, talented, fun person to be around. It was such a fun day and he was so gracious to all of us. I could have stayed and listened to his stories all day. What an amazing experience!
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