Before we left on Saturday family pictures were taken.
All 11 of Grandma Sorenson's Children were there. I would name them all but I do not think I can. There ended up being 94 people at the Reunion. Not every on was able to come but the group we had was great.
Shawn, Laurie, Bryan, Sheri, Von, Gina, David, Evelyn, Lidia, and Felicity. (Our immediate family. We are only missing Brent Andrea and Taryn).
Our little family picture.
Shawn and Laurie playing games.
Grandpa Von & Grandma Sheri & David
Gina & David out side the Reunion house
Lydia (Lauri's daughter or David's cousin) & her paper Mache
Shawn (brother in law), Lauri (Bryan's sister), Grandma Sheri, David and Bryan
In side the Reunion cabin/house there was a great big room where David just enjoyed walking and roaming around.
Friday August 8th, 2008- We had a great time at the park today. Bryan went golfing with some of his cousins and uncles and then met us at the park. We play some fun games & enjoyed lunch and a dutch oven dinner there. Some of the games that were played were a donut eating contest, Water balloon toss, Sponge and water game, rolling a ball with your nose relay, bubble gum blowing contest, and the three legged race. Some of the older guys also played 10,000 with the foot ball and a little softball. Then we went back to the Reunion house and had a great sing along. I think Rex put the Reunion on this year and did a great job. He even made some sing a long books so we all could sing along. It was a great night. We stayed up until around 12:00am singing.
The older cousins playing 10,000 with the football. Bryan said he was playing just to push his cousins around and make it difficult for them to catch the ball. He had no intention of trying to catch the ball himself.
In the park they had this cool tree. David and Bryan had fun walking under it. David thought he was Tarzan.
The children got to do paper mache around balloons. Landon (Bryan's cousin Lisle's Son) got some on his face.David playing at the park.
Zack and Gina during the 3 legged race. We almost won but fell right before the finish line. We had fun though.
Heidi(Bryan's cousin) & Gina during the bubble blowing contest.
Grandpa Von put his hat on David. David did not keep it on long. Sweet Grandma let David snuggle on her lap while I played some games.
During the games the adults had to paired with a child. I was paired with Zack Zito(?) (Bryan's cousin Lisel's son) We did pretty good on the water balloon tossing contest. Zack is 6 I think.
It was a hoot to watch every one try to role the small ball with their nose.
Quiet a few people tried the dounut eating contest. I took pictures instead of trying the donuts.
I was lucky and David took a short nap while we were at the park Friday. He only slept about a 1/2 hour. Still I was greatful.
Thursday August 7th, 2008- Sheri was sweet and watched David while Bryan and I went into Logan and played 18 holes of golf. Logan is about 10- 15 min from were we are staying for the reuion. It took us 4 hours to golf the 18 holes. We lost a lot of ball but had a fun time.
Friday moring at reuion they served some wonderful variaty of fruit, yogurt, granola, and cereal. David loved the variety. Look at his face. He really ENJOYED his breakfast.
David did great at the reuion. David woke up early every moring. 6:30am was his wake up time. This is our tent set up. Each morning we would let David play in the tent while we layed down for an extra 1/2 hour.
Wednesday August 13th, 2008- David and I spent the morning packing. Bryan took a 1/2 day of today so we could can leave for the family reuion in Utah. We a traveling with Von and Sheri. Von has been at Scout camp this week and we will leave as soon as he gets back. When Bryan got home from work I had the Tahoe packed and ready to go. We ate lunch and then headed into Boise. Bryan mowed his parents yard so Von would not have to worry about it once he got home from scout camp. Von got back from scout camp around 4:15. Bryan helped Von on-load the truck and we reloaded it with all of our stuff for reuion. We left for Utah around 5:30pm. We stopped and did a few geo-cashes on or way. We also stopped for dinner at Wendy's . Mom Sorenson (Sheri) was nice enough to buy our dinner. We arrived at Paradise Springs retreat in Utah around 11:00. The reuion does not start officially until Thursday evening so Bryan, David and I were lucky enough to get to sleep inside on a bed. The rest of the reuion we will be ouside in our tent. Only the first generation will get there own bedroom with a bathroom inside. When we arrived Rex and his family were there and Robert and Julie and some of there children were there. Every one else will be ariving some time tomarrow.
Tuesday August 5th, 2008- I mowed the lawn with David on my back so we could go play when Bryan got home. I got a baby sitter (Emily Corder (17)) and set up golfing with Kimber & Mike, Scott & Amanda and Bryan & I. We golfed in Caldwell at the Fairview golf course. We did 2 groups. The guys in one group and the girls in the other.We had a lot of fun. Then we came back to my house and had fish sticks, french fries, cantalope, pasta salad & chicken nuggets. Amanda was sweet and brought the canalope and pasta salad. We also played Bochie ball in the back yard. It was a fun game. It was great to spend some quality time with kimber and Mike while they were here. We also enjoyd the time with Scott and Amanda. It was great!!
Mike,Thomas, Gideon, Scott, Amanda, Gina & Bryan
Kimber, Mike, Amanda, Thomas, Scott, Gideon, Bryan
