Thursday, May 29, 2008

Cousins, Parade, Birthdays, Slumber Party... What Fun!!

We had such a good time being with family this past weekend. Many of us were there together. We enjoyed seeing Leif and Jenn and their family, recently moved back nearby, and Steve and McKenna were there along with Tera and Jared and their kids, and of course Grama and Grampa. We enjoyed spending time with Morgan, but missed seeing her family as they arrived after we left on Saturday. I did see Chris for a few minutes at midnight when he sleepily came in while I was looking for my camera to take a picture of the kids sleeping. Aren't you up looking for your camera at midnight? We squeezed in so many events and had so much fun and came home utterly exhausted! Jacen asked today when we're doing it again. I'm so grateful for my family. We love them so much!

The kids riding on a recreation department float in the parade.
Albert and Jennifer at the parade.
Will and Jace and Leif watching the parade.
Grampa Jim and Tera watching the parade. For those of you who aren't acquainted, this is the Horned Toad parade! Don't you all have parades celebrating Horned Toads?
Albert and Will watch the parade.
Grama Shirley is riding her horse in the parade! Go Grama!!
It's party time and all the cousins are ready to party! They love to be together.
Happy Birthday to Carter and Maila!!
For a party game, the kids had little colorful plastic swords and they had to try to get as many mini marshmallows on the tiny sword as they could. They loved it! I think as many or more marshmallows ended up in their mouths! Jacen won with one hundred or more! They were all very ingenious!


Jennifer and Tera did such a great job making balloon things--swords, flowers, etc. I was very impressed!
Linnea and Sydney with their balloon swords.
The children had so much fun playing together that it was quite hard to settle them all down. They were excited just to be together. However, they finally fell asleep all over Grama's living room--it's a good thing it's so big!


1 comment:

Becca said...

It looks like you guys always have so much fun as a family!! Thats awesome!!