Colorado!

A few weeks after my mom went home we packed up and drove to her house for a family reunion with my brother and sister and their families. It had been over 5 years since all of us were together! Way too long. It's a 16 hour drive and the kids (and the dog) all did really well traveling. Wesley watched a lot of Wiggles DVD's and the girls were begging us to turn off the dvd player, but Wesley wanted to watch and he has a very persuasive scream. :)

The cousins all had a great time together playing in the treehouse, swimming in the pool, doing crafts, playing with toys and making funny videos in photobooth on the computer. My sweet Grandma Johnson even flew out to be with us for a few days! The girls went to the American Girl doll store and the boys went to the Lego store. The moms took the kids to see Brave (I left Wesley napping while Brian worked, he was teaching an on-line class so was a bit busy). Both Nora and Miles didn't really like Brave, it was too scary, but Sophie and I loved it!

There was a big waterfight - instigated by my brother Aaron I'm sure, the girls played for hours with all their dolls, the kids watched movies every night until the fell asleep at 11:00, we had a fun 4th of July - even though we couldn't have a campfire or fireworks, and we had a family "Variety Show" where we had songs, skits, dances and lots of fun! Miles was especially funny that night and insisted on wearing a "costume" so Naunie found him a cowboy hat and huge cowboy boots and he gave us a great dance to grandpa singing 'Lime and the Coconut".

We had a great time being with my family, even though it was a bit wild with all of us in one house. Wesley was quite a terror while we were there and the cousins resorted to calling him "King Wesley - the Supreme Ruler" and asking his permission for everything they did. He was especially a stinker to Ruby, who is only 2 months older, and would hit or push her if she was within reaching distance. This part was not so fun for Brian and I because that meant we had to watch his every move. Stinker!

We rented a trailer to pull home because my mom had a bunch of stuff to give us (a bed frame and headboard/footboard, a lawn mower, some bikes and other stuff) Oh, and we brought home a kitchen hutch I bought at Goodwill while we were there. She also sent home some huge containers of colored chocolate disks for dipping. The green container tipped over in the back of the trailer and we had green chocolate oozing out the back of the trailer on the way home. Luckily it didn't get on anything that couldn't be washed off. It was pretty funny to be scraping melted green chocolate off the bottom of the trailer before we returned it! :)


We had a great time and were so thankful for the generosity of my mom and John for having us there and making it possible for us all to get together. I'm sure they are still recovering from it all! :)

I downloaded all the pictures from our trip to my mom's computer, thinking I could burn a cd of them before we left. But her computer was being funny and slow so I didn't get them burned. Once I get them I'll add them on to this post.