Family Reunion Fun

This past Saturday we went to a family reunion for Grammy's family in Stephenville. It was held at the Senior Citizen's building. Here the boys are playing with their little cars on a ramp that goes from one room to the next.

Dad played some too.

Another family that was there brought this Dora tricycle and Dora house to play with.

Here's some footage of Nathan riding the trike. He's getting better all the time at pedaling his trike at home too. I'll have to video him next time we're riding at home and share that on the blog.

Word to the wise - steering in especially important if your little brother is pushing the trike as you ride. Amazingly enough we were able to leave the Senior's Center in one piece.

David got in a game of 42 with his mom, dad, and uncle.

This pic of all of Grammy's family that was present needs to be cropped but in the great hard drive disaster that occurred last Friday we lost Adobe Photoshop. I haven't used the other photo editing programs we have enough to know how to crop pics on them so for now you'll just have to squint.

Here is Grammy (second from left) with four of her six sisters. It's really hard for my only child brain to even begin to grasp what that would be like.

We decided to go through Brownwood on our way home from Stephenville (we went down I-20 to Hwy 6 on the way there). We ended up having a great time and taking many great pics (like the next three posts worth) in Brownwood. Here's how the boys enjoyed the trip from Stephenville to Brownwood.

When did he turn into Daddy long legs? Seriously, just look at them!

I can't wait to share all our Brownwood adventures with you - more posts coming soon!

Family Reunion Fun

This past weekend we attended a reunion for Grandpop's side of the family. Since it was Grandpop and Grammy's year to plan everything they decided to have the reunion in their church's activity center which worked out great. There's a gym for playing basketball or catch and it also has a couple of toddler playground pieces and another room where you can play ping-pong, pool, air hockey, or Foosball as well as a kitchen area.

Here's Grammy and Grandpop with all their kids and grandkids - just the ten of us. Brad and Kristin and David and I all agree that it is a perfect ten - no one's planning on adding any more. (If God were to surprise us with a third I'll change my tune and come back and delete that last sentence.)Here's Nathan, Dad, Benjamin, and our nephew Daniel in the gym. We hadn't even been there an hour when they managed to get a small football caught in the ceiling rafters. David threw this bigger ball up to try to knock it down and...

he was eventually successful. Yeah Dad!

Nathan enjoyed playing with this hula hoop.Both boys enjoyed the toddler playground area...

along with Kathryn. She's great at playing with the boys and keeping them entertained. We also had fun in the game room with the pool table...

and ball rack,...the ping pong table (I snapped this fun pic with the ball in the air after David hit it but since I was supposed to be hitting it back to him I sort of fell down on my end of the deal there. Oops.),...
air hockey table,...

and the Foosball table. (I'm not very good at it but had fun playing anyway - same thing goes for the air hockey table. Oh well.)

Benjamin liked playing on Dad's side and learning the game from him.

Here's Dad's little student in action.

We had a great time visiting and catching up with each other. Who is that mad man with my baby?! Oh wait - it's just Uncle Brad.

Aunt Kristin and Uncle Brad were helping Benjamin with his lunch when a nap sneaked up on him. He got moved to Uncle brad's lap to sleep for a while. When you're two years old it is so nice to have family around to sleep on.

I am so blessed to have such great in-laws. They say that you're spouse is the only family member you ever get to choose. I'm so glad mine came with a great package deal.

Family Reunion

We attended a reunion for David's dad's side of the family in Stephenville this past weekend. We picked up David's dad on the way and he rode with us. This made it nice for me because I had the whole back seat of the van to myself and took advantage of that opportunity to sleep both coming and going. Since I was just getting over strep throat the extra rest time was much appreciated. David's mom rode with David's brother's family.


Here's a good shot of our whole clan.

Grandpop laughs as he tries to hold on to an undoubtedly squirmy Benjamin.
Uncle Brad snuggles his eldest nephew. (Nathan is a very tactile person - I can't imagine where he gets that - so you really can't help but snuggle when he's in your lap.)
I wonder what Dad and Benjamin are looking at.

Nathan was very intrigued with some of the older kids' (distant cousins) board game. He sat and watched what was going on for quite a while.

At one point Grandpop was talking on the mic and when he got done Nathan wanted to sing "Jesus Loves Me" for everyone. He did a great job. It was super sweet. He didn't seem the least bit intimidated singing to a room full of strangers. Who knows maybe we have a future worship pastor in the making.
We took a few Little People (Benjamin's favorite) and other toys for the boys to play with.
Our boys were not cooperating at all with our attempt at a cousins group shot. They were both in definite need of a nap. Soon after this I took them for a ride in the van to nap and I enjoyed a beautiful scenic drive from Stephenville to Glenrose. As far as I know that was my first trip to Glenrose but I would love to return there on vacation with the boys when they're a little older. It looked like a really neat town.