The last weekend of July, before I went to Boise for a week, Owen's family had a family reunion. Owen's brother is working on a farm close to his parents house in Oregon and was nice enough to have all 35+ people, stay at their house for the weekend. Evie and I were lucky enough to have our own room (thanks Tricia!) There were people sleeping all over the house...lucky that it was a big house :) So to understand this better....There are 10 kids in Owen's family and I love every single one of them! One of his sisters designed and ordered t-shirts for everybody. I thought they turned out super cute! This is the reason you will see a sea of green in most of these pictures! The kids got to go on a treasure hunt, we had a mini carnival, we went swimming, went hiking, did the whole camp fire thing, shared memories and made memories! It was really fun and I was sad when it ended. The last day, one of his sisters told me how much it meant to her, that I would come to the reunion with out Owen. I am very grateful for wonderful in-laws that treat me just like their very own sister, daughter, grand daughter, niece and aunt. Here are a few pics...enjoy!
Evie in her Johnston shirt and ready for the treasure hunt!
I tried to get a good pic of Macie and Evie, but they weren't having it. These two were a little shy at the beginning, but by the end of the weekend they were laughing and running and having fun!
The treasure hunt continues with a little "daring" walk across the ditch :)
Next stop - throwing water balloons at the milk jug skeleton...I think this was Evie's favorite part...she. loved. it.
Raising the pirate flag...or something along those lines! Uncle Aden did such an awesome job putting the treasure hunt together. He's going to be a good daddy someday :)
Evie and her cousin Morgan. She was sooo helpful with Evie and I was so appreciative of it. When I first met the family, Morgan was only 9 and now, she is almost 16! She is beautiful, creative and so sweet. I love Morgan!
One of the activities we did was swimming...and no, this wasn't at the lake, although it looks like it! One of Owen's parent's neighbors have a swimming pool and was gracious enough to let us swim. Evie started going down hill fast around this time.....cranky, tired, hot, thirsty, hungry, a toddler age of 2....I don't know, one of the above. It was all I could do to keep my patience with her. Single parenting is hard work!
Of course something was not right and she refused to take a picture.... gotta love this age!
We were all in charge of a station for the carnival. This station was a game with whip cream, and bubble gum. The point is to eat all of your whip cream and blow a bubble with you bubble gum, which is at the bottom of your bowl, under your whip cream, first. It was disgusting..as you can see in the picture :) I didn't post the pics of me gagging and almost throwing up in my bowl..yuck! It was fun, though!
Evie loved her balloon :) There were lots of other stations. The kids had a blast!
This is almost all of the kids....I'm sure there are some missing. Evie is the one with her hands over her face because she didn't want her picture taken....this is pretty much how the whole weekend went....little stinker! I guess Lisa (owen's sister in-law) and I are in charge of next years reunion.....that's gonna be a lot of work! Until next year....
