This past weekend was the Whitney family reunion in Marysvale. We showed up on Friday afternoonish. We had lots of fun! There were lots of us there and it was fun to see everyone and visit. The boys had a blast playing with all their long lost cousins for the weekend. They were outside running and playing all day long until it was too dark and they had no choice but to come in and crash.
Tracen played with Millie all weekend long. He was her little shadow. This also meant that he played with most of the other little girls…Elise, Alyssa, Missy etc. Tyler and Jesse ran around with all the boys….there were lots of them, shooting pvc pipe guns, playing war and mountain man games.
Uncle Dennis taught the boys all about being a mountain man and they had fun playing games and shooting/throwing weapons and all that good stuff. there were also crafts for the little kids and lots of food to eat.
One of my favorite parts was listening to Jack, Gaye, Kristi and Jill play. It’s always one of my favs :) It was a good weekend!
Josh hanging out with Anna:
I think Jill’s hair is so dang cute. Isaac caught a bunch of crickets. Josh tried to talk him into eating one or two but it was no go.
Dennis telling us all about Mountain men.
Even Link got good and dirty everyday and played in the dirt. He refused to wear shoes. He took them off every time I put them on.
It wouldn’t be a family reunion without shooting off paper rockets. They did this for several hours on two different days!
They spend hours constructing these.
Sunday we had testimony meeting. The kids all sang “because God loves me” and Aunt Donna taught them sign language to go with it. Sammy, Tyler (not my Tyler) and Gaye accompanied on guitars and violin.
All my parents grandkids…
We had a little Neilson family reunion this weekend. We had lots of fun up at Panguitch. While we were up there we got the grandkids together and I took some pictures. The kids were really cute. I also took pics of Jase and Jade's kids and they were so cute (the kids) I had to share. We decided we loved this picture of the grandkids because they're all just kind of looking their own way and doing their own thing. Oh, and by the way, we did not put Mack up there on the post all alone at 6 months...I just photoshopped Kaylynns arm out :)
In between photo shoots Josh got Tracen smiling by....well we won't call it tossing him in the air, but halfway. He never actually left Josh's hands but he did go up and down :)
We stopped at the reunion in Richfield. Sad to say when we came up on Friday the weather was really nice, however, Saturday it was fairly cold. Um I'm a good mom and only packed myself a jacket :) So everyone else froze their butts off. They had some fun games for the kids. They used a bandaid to put a pin on their nose and then a balloon on their bottoms and they had to pop eachothers balloons. 
In the end it was Jesse and the boy in the blue shirt and Jesse got his balloon popped, but it was lots of fun. I'm glad everyone still has their eyes and such. The boys also won some fun prizes during the raffle and we all ate lots of good food. Josh had to be back to work a school function (have you ever seen cowboy action shooters all dressed up....oh, it's good!) so we had to go but the lucky boys went home with Grandma and Grandpa so they got to stay a little longer and find money in cedar shavings. We all had fun.
