These pictures are out of order, but our final leg of the trip was to my sister's for the Loftus reunion!! Driving past Dallas in a motor home was crazy, but we made it. These plates with the waffles were so fun!
Minute to win it games. Six years ago when we did this at our reunion, it was mostly the parents that participated in the games, with some kids trying/watching. This year it was mostly the kids doing the games with the parents watching.
Nice sister, feeding skittles.
Cambrai and Calais ran alot of the games (thank you!), and here she is showing everyone how to get dressed and race.
Kids trying it.
Are you dressed?
Grandpa's turn!
Bingo! Classic birthday party game at our house.
We tried to have a baby run...
Adalyn was embarrassed to be in her diaper I think and didn't want everyone cheering for her/staring at her.
Not happy with Matthew.
A different day and she's happy with Matthew.
For Christmas this year my parents gifted everyone a drive thru zoo/safari.
No, we didn't take the RV thru it. We ended up only 1 seat short between all the cars (because on of the rentals was a 8 seater van instead of 7), so we crammed 4 kids into one row of Danielle's suburban and they let us drive Keith's car. (and we passed 5 of our kids out to other cars in our extended family.)
Some animals were aggressive.
Adalyn loved it.
Aggressive
Our car-Joseph, Emma, Adalyn, Rob and I.
Aggressive
Aggressive
The COOLEST part was feeding a giraffe!
That's my hand!!!
It was way too hot to do this, but it was cool to see the dinosaur foot prints!
Aunt Calais brushed Makayla's hair alot. She's much softer than me and swimming in the pool so much made Makayla's hair snarly.
Oreos with the 8 yr old cousins.
Shake it!
Adalyn!
Too funny!
Lego building competition
Crazy hair do competition
It was Mark's birthday so we had to celebrate.
We had a variety show. My kids and I didn't know what we could possibly do. Rob did a magic show, but we were stumped. Uncle Keith gave suggestions to everyone and we all participated.
Danielle's family was the most prepared, singing we don't talk about Bruno. Everyone was a character from the movie.
Birthday buddies.
My brother and his wife did a funny song.
Calais did a skit with most of the kids.
Dance party inbetween acts!
12 yr old Ben is a mime.
Michael was in his performance.
Magic show! I did a flash mob line dance with my sisters.
My dad brought stuff that we all left at their house.
My records in the high school track book
My program from BYU graduation
Madelyn and Adalyn swinging at the park by their house.
the kiddie pool. I wasn't sure if I'd be too hot in my swimsuit...but I wasn't. I LOVE my swimsuit!
Christopher found out he got a 5 on his AP Calculus test (as a junior!). I knew he was finding out that day, so I asked him what he got on it. Calais and Cambrai had this sign all ready to show me his score.
This was suppose to be the first picture, which I sent to my family that we were almost (a few hours) there. It was so fun to all cram (though it didn't feel crammed) into Danielle's house and take over her pool. We did just the right amount of activity and hang out. Leaving Danielle's house we had some issues (The back of the RV scraped the cement in Tulsa, so we put something under the tires (that was Uncle Walt's) and it worked great to keep from scraping. We tried a 2x4 in Texas, but it popped up and knocked something which made our electrical trip inside the RV. We figured out the easy fix once we were home, but we didn't have any house electricity the whole ride home. So no tv, lights, and our fridge was just a glorified cooler. The kids did surprisingly well with out the tv, and since it was summer, the no lights was only an issue in the bathroom in the middle of the night. We drove to Cortez and spent the night in the walmart parking lot. It was alot cooler in Cortez, so we slept alot better. After going to church in Cortez, we drove back home. It was a long, fun trip. 4-5 days in each location was perfect. I hope Rob's up to driving that far again because it was fun and I''d love to do it again.
