We just had the family reunion with Megan's side of the family. "Just" as in 2 months ago. My excuse for just now getting to writing about this? My work and travel schedule. Megan and I calculated that I've been averaging 14 or 15 hour-days for the past 6-ish weeks. Ok, ok...you're very astute: 6 weeks is not 2 months. What about the first 2 weeks? My excuse for that? It's society's fault, and I cannot be personally held responsible. But, enough finger pointing, blaming, and excusing...let's get on with the summary!Megan went ahead and posted a collection of photos from the reunion for me to blog about, so let's see what we've got here.
This looks like our nephew Jonah taking a quick spin on the scooter on our back patio. While it's not a Spiderman scooter, I think it still worked for him.
Aah, here's Max collapsed after a day of playing in the water and sun at Holiday World. Holiday World is like Disney World, Indiana Edition. Instead of Tomorrow Land, and Adventure Land, it has 4th of July World, Thanksgiving Land, Halloween Town, Christmas Village and Ball Point Pen Day World and it's actually pretty fun. We spent most of the day in the water park and Max finally passed out after attempting to drown all day.
The trip to Holiday World was actually an adventure in itself. We were delayed leaving because we couldn't find Ben's shoes. Then we left the garage door open and had to turn around. Then we realized that we forgot Megan's swimsuit (an important item to take to the water park) and turned around again. Then, dark black clouds filled the entire sky and it started raining like a monsoon. After calling Holiday World and receiving their assurance that it wasn't, in fact, raining there, we decided to continue our drive anyway. As we drove and drove and the rain didn't seem to ever let up we kept calling Holiday World to inquire about the conditions there and they reassured us that "it never rains in Holiday World." We got there, and sure enough it was bright, sunny and hot! It was a Festivus miracle. We had to leave at 7:00 p.m. due to rain at Holiday World. (But we had a great time on the way there and back making up a song about our adventures to the tune of "We Will, We Will Rock You".)Continuing on the water theme, we had a blow-up pool set up in our backyard one of the days so that the kids could track water and mud into the house much easier. Here's Benj, Grant and Gavin doing their best to tackle each other in the water.
Michael discovered Heaven and started playing guitar.
Nathan discovered Michael and joined in.
Jonathan discovered Nathan and Michael and took a turn playing drums.
Leah discovered her husband, Jonathan and showed him the correct way to use drumsticks! Who needs Rockband or Guitar Hero? We had a blast playing the real thing.
Nathan discovered that if you fly all the way across the country with your family of 9, and then get up at 6:00 a.m. to play golf with the guys in the family, that the couch will attack you in the afternoon and force you unconscious.
Here's another picture of playing in the pool in the backyard with Jessica, Ammon, Benj, Grant, Garrison, Scott, Gabby and Jonah.
Kaitlyn did something fun at the reunion, probably. She loves getting her picture taken.
Ammon, on the other hand, does not love getting his picture taken. He will turn around so you can't see his face.
Bonnie, Gavin and Ali figured out how to make a water slide: you put the slide into the water.
On Sunday night we had a family talent show. Alison showed off the ninja move that she saw on Ultimate Ninja Challenge that we found on satellite one night while everyone was here.
Kaitlyn used a candlestick as a microphone to sing Taylor Swift's "Love Story." Michael acted as the M.C. for the evening and was hilarious.
Nathan discovered that if you fly all the way across the country with your family of 9, and then get up at 6:00 a.m. to play golf with the guys in the family, that the couch will attack you in the afternoon and force you unconscious.
Here's another picture of playing in the pool in the backyard with Jessica, Ammon, Benj, Grant, Garrison, Scott, Gabby and Jonah.
Kaitlyn did something fun at the reunion, probably. She loves getting her picture taken.
Ammon, on the other hand, does not love getting his picture taken. He will turn around so you can't see his face.
Bonnie, Gavin and Ali figured out how to make a water slide: you put the slide into the water.
On Sunday night we had a family talent show. Alison showed off the ninja move that she saw on Ultimate Ninja Challenge that we found on satellite one night while everyone was here.
Kaitlyn used a candlestick as a microphone to sing Taylor Swift's "Love Story." Michael acted as the M.C. for the evening and was hilarious.
We wrapped up the reunion by flying 1 row ahead of Nathan, Melissa, Maddy, Jenna, Holly, Bonnie, Ben, Amy and Ammon back to Utah to attend my sister's wedding (which I blog about in approximately 2 months). It was great to see everyone and I think they all had as much fun as we did.
4 comments:
Happy to see that you're back home and blogging again! "Love Story" will forever and always remind me of Kaitlyn. Hugs to everyone!
I was glad to finally see that someone else had experienced the attacking sofa. Our sofa attacks on multiple occasions--sometimes even when you are not expecting it.
You have such a clever way of documenting your family fun. Everyone loves reading about it and it brings to mind all the fun once again.
Love,
Dad
That was so considerate of you to set up the pool to make it easier to track in mud. I'll have to look for similar opportunities while I'm there. Speaking of which, I can hardly wait to see you all!
Love,
Mary Lee
Better late than never, I always say. And it was worth the wait. Looks like lots of fun. I hope my brothers get married and have more kids so we can do fun stuff like this. (Aaron's siblings and their kids are all too old for Gavin to play with...Sad.)
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