Last weekend we had a family reunion for my parents and their kids and grandkids. It was the first time that we had all been together in a couple years and I was so excited that everyone was able to make it! It was so much fun to everyone and to see how all the kids have grown. My sister, Jenn, planned the whole thing and split us into two teams for an awesome weekend-long competition. We earned points by competing in various games and activities including a scavenger hunt, trivia, air hockey, Wii games, and board games.
We went to the Nickelcade in Sandy and we were pretty much the only ones there since it was the 4th of July. But we pretty much filled the place up by ourselves. The girls spent most of the time at Dance Dance Revolution and the guys all spent most of the time at the basketball hoops, but no one could beat my dad's record of 75 points.
Believe it or not, Ben (the smaller one) beat Matt (the bigger one) in Wii boxing. And Matt is really good too!
We ended the day with an awesome fireworks show. It was great because we could see the Thanksgiving Point fireworks from my parents' backyard so we all just set up camp out back and enjoyed the show.
I am so blessed to have such and awesome family! I love them all so much and I can't wait until next year's reunion.
Last weekend we had a family reunion for my parents and their kids and grandkids. It was the first time that we had all been together in a couple years and I was so excited that everyone was able to make it! It was so much fun to everyone and to see how all the kids have grown. My sister, Jenn, planned the whole thing and split us into two teams for an awesome weekend-long competition. We earned points by competing in various games and activities including a scavenger hunt, trivia, air hockey, Wii games, and board games.
Our first stop for the weekend was to visit my grandma who now lives in Utah which is great because we get to see her much more often. My grandma has Alzheimer's so she has some trouble remembering all of our names, but she never stopped smiling the whole time we were there. It was so great to be able to have us all there to visit with her. Here she is holding my brand new niece, Autumn, who is seriously the cutest baby ever.
Here are the two teams right before we received our first clue for the scavenger hunt. As you can see, we were separated by colors: the blue team and the green team. We started at Cabela's and then were sent to Ikea and we had to complete a quiz at each place which involved running around each store trying to find the answer to the questions. It was hilarious because everywhere we went people we passed would say, "There goes another one of the green/blue team." Or something to that effect. The hunt ended at the end of a hike through Bell's Canyon. We all had such a fun time racing each other up the mountain but man was it hot!
We went to the Nickelcade in Sandy and we were pretty much the only ones there since it was the 4th of July. But we pretty much filled the place up by ourselves. The girls spent most of the time at Dance Dance Revolution and the guys all spent most of the time at the basketball hoops, but no one could beat my dad's record of 75 points.
Believe it or not, Ben (the smaller one) beat Matt (the bigger one) in Wii boxing. And Matt is really good too!
We ended the day with an awesome fireworks show. It was great because we could see the Thanksgiving Point fireworks from my parents' backyard so we all just set up camp out back and enjoyed the show.
I am so blessed to have such and awesome family! I love them all so much and I can't wait until next year's reunion.
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