Family Reunions

Okay so back in August the Washington group came down for over a week. Wow, what a week it was! We had fun with dinners, playing, and activities. However, most of that got hampered by the stomach flu. Yep we shared the stomach flu with everyone. It hasn't quite been long enough to be considered funny yet, not quite. The rest of the time was fun though. We ate good food, had fun swimming, playing volleyball, games at the barn, and had an interesting boating trip. The boat did not want to cooperate, turns out is was some emissions thing that was causing all sorts of trouble. It was an easy fix, if we had only known. Mar tried to break her leg, but the kids had fun swimming in the reservoir.

Mar will not be happy I posted this pic. Thankfully, just a huge really nasty bruise. I really thought she had at least cracked it.

 The kids swimming.

 

 One of my favorite things about getting the family together is listening to all the stories. Here is the siblings minus Diane, and Bonnie is in for Ron. Aunt Kay wasn't able to make it due to the fact that school was getting ready to start and she had all sorts of meetings with the faculty.

 

 Lyvi LOVED Aunt Bonnie. She seriously sat and gabbed for hours with her, multiple times. It is too bad we don't live closer I think we could have found a babysitter!

Unfortunately, that is all the pics I took. We were hit and miss and super busy with the bug. We passed it around our family in a matter of days and then all the Washington group (except a select few) got it right as they were headed home. The last day everyone was here I think half of the people at the barn (there were more than 30) had it, the rest of us went swimming. The girls had so much fun with their cousins. They have like 6 other girls their age. Kaite and Miriam were inseparable. Ash hit it off with Elizabeth and Mia, her and Mia still text. We sure are going to miss them and hope we can see them soon. We had a ton of fun!

After they left George flew in for a week and James drove down. We hit the pool and the cabin. It has been so long I can't remember everything that was done, but we had fun.

James showed up solo, too bad Amanda couldn't come. And he showed up with a rat on his face?!? What is that about James? He shaved it before he left.

This was taken with my cell and came out way blurry.

George with the girls.

Cooking smores' over the grill since there was a burn ban in effect.

Lyvi chillin.

Mar and Lyvi hiding from the mosquitoes.

The swing set was taken down with all the snow last year(?). So since everyone was there they decided to put it back up. This was a lot scarier than it sounds!

Ky and James carried the huge log up the ladder. All us girls stayed under the safety of the roof in case it did come down.

  James' side was really unstable.

Ky's side was last. I am just glad nobody got hurt, let's not do that again!

George came over and played some wii before he left.

Then Mahon and Cindy came up over Labor day weekend. They shared their happy news with us, which Ash picked up on the fastest of everyone. I am more than happy to unload all my baby stuff!! We spent a fun night hanging out with them and playing ticket to ride.

Then we had a BBQ at the in-laws and sang to Ash. The boys killed hornets, there are some funny pics of this! Me and Chantelle hit the mall and did some girly shopping for Ash's b-day.

Family photo; Lyvi was sleeping.

 

 That was pretty much August and the first part of September. I think we literally had a day or two between groups, it was kind of a crazy blur. We really had fun and it was nice to spend so much time with family. Hopefully, we don't have to wait too long to see everyone again, the holidays are coming. I will say it was a relief to get back into a routine when things settled down. 

I was originally going to make this 3 posts, but I don't think I ever would have gotten to that. I am already at least 2 more behind as of now.