Barker Family: Island Park

We make our yearly trip to Island Park again this year. I LOVE THAT PLACE!!! We had so much fun. All of my brother and sisters except for Krishele were there for the whole week. Krishele was only able to come for the weekend because her kids are just to busy, so we missed them. My Grandma Parry was also able to come up for a few days which is always fun when she can come.

The weather was really weird while we were there so we didn't get to do a lot of the stuff that we normally do, like run the river, but we still had a lot of fun water skiing and playing on the waverunners.

On Sunday we went to Mesa Falls. I hadn't been there for a long time and Ben and the kids had never been there. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL!! I had forgotten how pretty it was there. The kids really liked it. After we got home from Mesa Falls we went to go shot potatoes out of the Potato Gun. We do this every year and have a great time with it. However this year we had a accident. Branden was on one dock shotting the gun and some of the kids had gone over by him to see him shot it. The kids were having so much fun watching the potatoes land in the water. I was standing on the other dock and heard a load sound and looked over to see Branden pull someone out of the water and he was really limp. I realized it was Colton, who had gone over to the other dock with Ben. I took off run to get Colton, because I thought that he had got hit by the gun and it had knocked him out. Ben grapped him and ran to the top of the dock just has I had gotten there. We started to strip him down to see what had happened and realized he was fine and had just got knocked into the water. Just after that Branden took off running back to camp and realized it had hit my nephew Bronsen. He had a huge bump on his head. They got the swelling to do down and he looked like everything was going to be ok but they ran him to Rexburg to make sure everything was good. We are lucky because Branden is a Intensive Care Nurser so he knew exactly what to do when it all happened. Bronsen ended up being just fine and we are so glad Branden was there to pull Colton out of the water.

We had a great vacation accident and all.