All the Family!

 OK, so this is getting long, but I want to be sure to share the pictures of the family from the reunion.  We had a group picture taken and then broke down into smaller family groups.  This group picture is of My mom, her kids and spouses and their kids.  Let's just say that families can sure multiply quickly!

At the old town area there were some fun photo ops... like locking the kids in the local jail :).

 Vance's fiance' Jessica with Sandra :)   

Grant as a cowboy

Mhari and Sandra posing in the western girl frame :)

Grant and Talmage :)

Grant and Mhari on the wooden horse and Sandra on a huge piece of petrified wood.

Grant almost standing on the huge petrified wood.

That evening at dinner... all of the family eating :)

cousins bonding :)

My mom with her brother and sister sharing memories of their parents... the ones who started this huge pile of people :).

Deer on the way into the canyon.

 Our family tree.

Aunt Shay with Baby and Grant with his favorite cousin :)

Mhari was having a hard day... Uncle Paul helped out and cuddled with her :)

He even got her to take a nap :)

Uncle Westen and his little girl.

Paul and me.

Heather and baby.

Heather keeping baby happy with the cell phone ;). 

Talmage with one of his favorite cousins.

The kids, especially Talmage and Grant, had a great time playing soccer with everyone.  We have enough people to get a good game going on too!  

It was hard to pull the kids away when it was time to go... but we had a long drive ahead of us to get back to TX.  It was great to see everyone and build cousin friendships for the kids!  Sorry if this was long, but there are even more pictures that weren't posted ;).

Bryce Canyon

We had a nice time exploring Bryce Canyon.  I've always thought the canyon was beautiful.  I love the color and the cool shapes.  It seems unreal the way the rocks are formed.  

Here are some pictures for you to enjoy... maybe even help you feel like you had the chance to visit Bryce too :)

The kids had a great time, but we had to be careful they didn't get too close!

One of my favorites!

Mhari

Clark

We did try to hike down into the canyon a little.  Let's just say that going down with a stroller wasn't a good idea and I got many a crazy look, as well as comments, from people.  


Oh, and needless to say, I didn't make it down very far.

We ran into my Brother and his family just finishing the 1.3 mile hike.

They look like they just went on a stroll!  I guess the backpack was a good idea if you wanted to take little ones down that trail!

After our little hike we decided to do the rim trail.  This was a nice paved trail along the rim of the canyon, not down it.  We made it a lot farther and went to a cool look out point.  That's where a lot of the scenic pictures came from.  The kids did well on the hike and we had a nice time exploring Bryce Canyon together!

Reunion Fun

Friday morning we ate breakfast together and then all of the families had different activities to share.  It was a fun morning!  The kids especially had a blast!

Here is Clark at breakfast eating his first apricot.  Um, he loved it and would have eaten the pit if I let him.  He had several more by the time we were done at the reunion :).

Sandra and Mhari waiting for the fun to start.  I think they are growing into some beautiful girls and they are such good friends too!

Giant Twister!  

Face painting!  Sandra later had a crown added to her decorated face :)

Clark took a nap for a while... so sweet!

Talmage got a tiger face... he really liked it!

Grant was also a tiger :)

My sister, Holly, being a human sock puppet.  Too funny... can you see her "decorations"?

Sandra and Holly playing puppets.

Clark modeling the rosettes that I was teaching.  He left it on top of his head too... probably because he couldn't tell it was there ;).

Mhari is a butterfly, oh, and don't forget the pretty fingernainls!  The only problem with the face paint is that it blocked the sun so well that Mhari still has a butterfly tan on her face - which is at least better than the butterfly sunburn it started out as!

The picture of all the kids who had their faces painted!  There was some cool stuff:  dragon, aquarium, lots of butterflies, flowers etc.!

The whole gang who made sock puppets.  They all had a great time with their puppets!

That finished the morning.  After lunch we were left to our own plans... so it was off to explore the canyon - tune in next time for Bryce Canyon pictures :)!