Monday, April 11, 2011

A whole bunch of pictures

A couple of weeks ago we had a lot to celebrate. My baby brother Ryan got home from his mission so my whole family, except Rowdy's part, got together for a reunion. Shawn and Stina were able to come from Washington and I finally got to meet their precious baby, Arvella. She is so tiny and so very sweet. I had forgotten how small babies were. It made me wonder if I was ready to have a baby again. I guess now that I am 8months pregnant there really isn't any going back. We spent the first day of the reunion hanging out around the ranch and having fun together. The next day we spent doing family history stuff and going on a historical tour of Hiko. My brother Luke is quite the historian. It amazes me the stuff that he knows about our family history and about the history of Hiko. He has really done his homework and it was a lot of fun learning from him. He even put together a trivia game made up of our family history. The third day was my day to plan. I had planned to go to the cabin but of course the weather didn't cooperate. We ended up doing my activities on the ranch and they were still fun. I had a scavenger hunt which turned out to be pretty fun. Then we had skeet shooting. We went through two boxes of skeet and a whole bunch of shells. It was really fun. I got three cameras worth of pictures so here are a few to show how the weekend went.
Ira and Dalley painting Dalley and Dustin
My mom and Dad with Ryan when they picked him up from the airport
We are turning Stina into quite the country girl, she is a really good shot
Kate with Arvella, Kate was the best little babysitter. She just loved holding Arvella
The boys feeding

We put some of Dalley's wranglers on Ira and he was the cutest little thing in them. He has quite the little strut
Lukie with the grand prize from the scavenger hunt, he was proud to be the winner
Kids waiting for Uncle Buck to show up at the airport

Stina and Arvella

Hey girls, he's single
Dalley on Homer Horse
These two are such good friends, I love that they are buddies



Luke's family at the old Hiko School house

View from Hiko cemetery

My handsome Dad

My handsome boy
Holding the squirrel Uncle Ryan shot



Ira loved wearing every one's hat, He got his dad in on the action

1 comment:

Adam and Shari Crawford said...

That looks like it was a TON of fun! I love family get togethers :) I SERIOUSLY can't believe it's been two years and Ryan is back... I still remember Shawn getting back and feeling like it was yesterday :) We might be aging a little bit, Kris :)