Family members gathered at Michelle's and Josh's house in Frederick throughout the day. We are so grateful to them for hosting us!
Nathan and Megan's family flew in from Charlotte, NC; Camille and Bryan and their family came from Canton, MI, via Logan where they had a Cook family reunion the following week; Craig and Rashida drove over from Orem, Utah; and Dad and Mary Lee flew in from Tucson, AZ.
Tuesday, July 18
The reunion began in earnest with fun games in the Cook's beautiful backyard!
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| Kan Jam was a favorite all week--and some people got really good at it! |
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| Michelle and Dad working on a giant homemade Jenga set. Josh and Michelle thought of everything for our enjoyment! |
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| Fun with Grandpa at Cafe Rio! |
Wednesday, July 19
We enjoyed walking up the road at Dinosaur Ridge and seeing all the dinosaur tracks in the rocks.
On the way home we stopped at the Red Rocks Amphitheater. A band was rehearsing so we couldn't see the amphitheater, but we enjoyed looking at the Performer's Hall of Fame.
July 20
We got the day off to a great start by celebrating Tytan's 8th birthday!
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| Tytan, Brie and their cousins especially enjoyed the photo book his mom made of his life so far! |
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| The Star Wars lego set was another hit for Tytan, Max, and Ben |
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| Olivia playing finger games with Grandpa. |
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| Craig and Dad enjoying Tytan's photo book. |
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| Zander loved being with Kate--and kept asking for her long after returning home to Michigan! |
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| Max is great with his cousins--younger ones included! |
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| We love our beautiful family... |
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| even when they get a little crazy!
July 21
The family played games at the church for most of the day. Did anyone take photos?!
Michelle and Josh have a great collection of fun indoor and outdoor games.
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Nathan arranged a Let's Make a Deal game for Megan to celebrate her birthday. She started out with $35 but chose to trade that for what was beneath dish towel #1. Good deal! Under dish towel #1 were 35 five dollar bills. Wow! Really good deal. Then she was tempted to trade the $185 for what was under dish towel #2. Should she or shouldn't she? Tough choice but she went for it. Beneath dish towel #2 was a certificate for a sofa set that she had really wanted. Now things got really tricky. She could keep the sofas or trade them for what was beneath dish towel #3. What to do? What could be better than she already had? But the potential for something even better was irresistible, so she traded the sofas for the prize under dish towel #3. It was so exciting. It was going to be so amazing. Both thrilled and fearful she removed dish towel #3 to reveal the ultimate prize: A pair of corrective shoes for an orangutan. What a great deal! The best thing of all! Well not really. (In the end she got to keep ALL her prizes!) It was magical, laughable, fun and typical of how clever Nathan is.
Dads were in great demand on the trail.
Sunday we attended church with Josh and Michelle, and family members began the journey home...till we meet again. We love you all! No question about it, our family is TBTI!
July 25
Several of us were blessed to attend Tytan's baptism in Logan. We're very proud of him!
3 comments:
What a super fun reunion! We loved every minute of it! And hopefully the Cook's have recovered from our visit! LOVE YOU!
Great post brought back lots of fun memories. We love you all and can't wait to see you again.
We looked forward to the reunion with great anticipation and it lived up to all the hype. You captured almost everything! I did take a photo at the church when I beat Craig, Rashida and Megan at Boggle by a signification margin. I can pass that along ;). Love you!
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