I'm not sure why but the last four weeks of our summer were so busy that it seemed like we were trying to pack the whole summer into those four weeks. You can tell by my blog most of what was going on, the Idaho trip, the birthdays, the company, swimming lessons etc. I don't know what happened to those weeks but they sure were fun! For our last hurrah, we had all of Glenn's family coming to stay a couple of days and go to Lagoon. (It was really a last minute attempt at a family reunion which did serve its purpose of getting us all together and also setting an expectation of something for the following year.) To add to the excitement our friends the Wilson's (Trish was my college roommate back in the day) wanted to come stay during the same time because they had to come pick up their son from baseball camp. (See last blog.) Anyway we said the more the merrier and they came as well. They were planning on bringing their camping trailer down to stay in but we have a vacant house across the street from us which the owners had offered to let us use so we took them up on it. It's funny because William now refers to it as the Wilson's house.
The Wilson's came Thursday night and took off on Friday to go to BYU and do some family stuff. Dale came Thursday night at midnight, (Glenn forgot that he was coming that night) and he and Garrett disappeared for most of Friday too. I think they were scoping out fishing holes and root beer float joints.
Glenn's parents and Chanse arrived Friday afternoon and Jill, Mark, Jacob and Alexia came later that night. It worked out that Jamie and her family would be able to meet us at Lagoon on Saturday so everyone was able to be there.
We convinced the Wilson's to go to Lagoon with us too. We got to Lagoon just after 10:00 am and spent the whole day there. Thank goodness for cell phones because we had people everywhere. My girls ended up tagging along with Trish her girls quite a bit, so a lot of the time I found myself with just Glenn and William. I've got to admit that is my favorite way to hang out at an amusement park. I'll take those two guys and the kiddie rides any day.
It's funny that we had 24 people with us but I mostly got pictures of William and Alexia, the little ones.
Dale gave Abby and Emily cameras though so maybe when I get their pictures developed I'll have more.
Anyway it was a really fun day and I would have to say that our last minute family reunion was a success. Everyone left on Sunday (including Glenn because he had a 7:00 am flight to VA for books) and then school started for the kids on Monday morning. Whew, talk about a whirlwind weekend!
2 comments:
Sometimes whirlwind weekends are the best!
Wow, those kind of weekends stress me out. You seem to just handle all the stress so well. Sounds like fun. And yes I do have some cute nieces. And we would be delighted to have any of your boys take them out!
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