And all the Rest!!

The days at our reunion were great!! Some may think that going to Winslow would be a boring place to go.....but as you can see from all the photos of good times, we had some great times!!
The cousins got reacquainted with each other and made some fabulous memories!!




Audrey and Jessica teaching the EFY dance to everyone!




Go Audrey and Keevin!!



Time to eat again!! Anyone up for steak or chicken???



Off to Roland and Natalies for some yummy ice cream!!!



Audrey, Ava and Corrina



Jaxson loving Grandma!



Deni and Audrey



Deni being silly with Zach!!



Jaxson stirring the eggs for Aunt Kim!



Getting the socks ready for tie-dye!



The younger kids painted ceramic crafts!



Can't forget the fleece pillows we made....Grandpa is getting stuffing ready for his!!



Rachel tie dying her socks....messy job!!


Yep, there I am, cleaning up the crafts, getting ready for what is next!!



Cayson and Emily molding cream cheese mints!!! Yummooo!!



Oh yes, we are eating again....hamburgers and hot dogs this time!!



Kevin sandwich....with Dad as the filling.
Must be good by the look on Kevin's face!



Happy 9th birthday, Hailey!!



Swimming begins!! To the hotel we go!!



Kevin joins in the game of "colors"!



Looks like Keevin is happy!!




Gotta love the hot tub!!




Jaxson starts his jumps!!



Keevin and Cayson



Cayson goes down!



Chicken fights start up!!!


Audrey and Jaxson



Sisters chicken fighting!!



Zach and Audrey!



Trevor playing with the bubbles in the hot tub!



Gotta love my man who will get in the water to play....even though he can't see so great without his glasses!!


Love the look!!
Ben, Audrey, Jessica and Emily




Go Jaxson!!



Perfect jumping jack into the water, Trevor!



Keevin is the bomb!



Grandma giving instructions!


Kevin starting with the lanyards...



Are we eating again???
Yummy hoagie sandwiches!!


We headed to La Posada where Grandma, dressed in her Harvey Girl attire, gave us all a tour of the historic hotel!!!


Balloon launching time!!!


Emily is coming in from the outfield of trying to get hit!!


Cayson


Audrey


Can you believe Kevin caught one??



Keevin doing the happy dance for having his balloon go the furthest!!


Audrey coming in at a very close second!



Zach




Tito being chased down by the kids with a bucket of water!!

Keevin got grandma wet with a water balloon when he hit Audrey....
Grandma called WAR!!!!
She won!!!

Thus ends the reunion pictures!!!
Thanks, Mom and Dad for the great week!!!!

We are all so far from each other and our kids look forward to the times we can be together to celebrate being a family!!! The memories we make, the laughs we have and the obstacles we overcome make us a strong family!!!

Two years sure is a long time!!!!!

4th of July

We started our day out at the church for the pancake breakfast.....all you can eat pancake breakfast....



Benjamin, Keevin, Trevor and Zach waiting to go in for breakfast....




Kim and Kevin


Kevin sandwich with Rachel as the filling!!




Here is some of the gang.....with our matching shirts!!



Tiphaine and Deni...



More of the gang




Mother and Daughter, Denise and Hannah....




We had some of my Aunts and Uncle come up to see us from Mesa.
Here is the table of my extended family, my cousin (Roland) and his wife and children, Aunt Sandra, Uncle Darrel, Aunt Kay, Aunt Shelley and her husband, Rick. It was so great to see them all.


Audrey and Jaxson


Hail, Hail, the gangs all here!!!
We are all standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona!!



Tiphaine, Hailey, Cayson, Jaxson and Deni



Kevin, Glenna, Keevin, Corinna and Trevor



Denise, Dan, Daniel, Jessica, Rachel, Benjamin and Hannah



Aunt Shelley and Uncle Rick...



Here we are....Kevin, Kim, Audrey, Zachary, and Emily....we missed Kassidy


Mom and Dad.....Standing on the corner!!!



Rachel and Audrey



Grandpa and the gang at the train museum.



Daniel and Grandpa




Benjamin and Grandpa



Mom and Dad with the original 4 or would that be the fantastic 4!!


Back to Grandpa and Grandma's house for a dip in the pool!!




Hannah loves her grandma!!


Have you ever seen a chili fries this big!!!! Uncle Darrel and Aunt Sandra brought yummy food over for an afternoon feast!!!!!



Thanks, Uncle Darrel!!!!!


Eating and loving the food!!



Oh, Denise loved her Taco Tangles!!!




Denise and Kim!


Hannah loved the brown drink and she told Uncle Darrel he made the best root beer in the whole world. Would he get her some more? How could he resist??? He went back to the root beer stand and brought back some more root beer for Hannah....


and Dan....and everyone else who got in line!!



Sword fight time!!
You get the fun swim noodles, cut them in thirds and stick a 12inch 1/2inch pvc pipe in one end and there you go!!





















As you can tell the kids had a great time with Tito during their sword fight!!!
Good thing we had the old tennis courts out back!!


Sandy Candy time. The kids loved trying the many flavors of candy. Grandma and Tiph made the powder with fine sugar and flavored kool-aid or flavor-aids. I brought little character bottles to fill up and there you go.....Sandy Candy!



Fireworks time. We sat in the backyard and watched them because they are let off at the fields behind my parents home....



Hannah loved the fireworks!!




Kevin and Kim hanging out watching the fireworks!!



Zach and Trevor....the flash on the camera caught them off guard!!

We loved the celebration day of July 4th!!!!

oh yes, thanks, Grandma for the dilly bars!!!!!