Friday morning started with the guys going golfing. So us women got up and fed the kiddos breakfast and let them play around. We also had a little dance party while we cleaned up and vacuumed the house a little bit. After a week of lots of little ones in one house their becomes a major need for the carpet to be vacuumed. haha
The guys had a lot of fun golfing and were starving by the time they got back right at lunch time.
While the guys were gone Devin and I took the kiddos to the park to play for a little while. The rest of the day was spent playing games and letting the kids just play together.
Such cuties!! They sure were enjoying their watermelon! :-)
That night we had a movie night in the garage! The kids were pretty excited about it but the youngest little ones kept getting up and walking around and causing problems with the projector. So the little ones didn't make it long for the movie. Emmett thought it was so fun to lay on his pillow and eat popcorn. Wyatt and Ethan were so excited to be having a movie night. Especially Wyatt since he is my tv fanatic. haha The family movie night kind of turned into the older kids and a couple adults watching the movie while the rest hung out in the house.
After the movie we got the kids to bed and I got to work finishing up Ethan's birthday cake and putting up streamers before heading to bed myself!
Brandon decided to have fun with his shaving Saturday morning. haha Ya.. this didn't last very long! haha
So like I said Saturday was Ethan's birthday. He is 7 years old which is just crazy!! How did my little boy get so big. Next year he will be getting baptized!! These kids of ours our growing up too fast! Anyways, Ethan was super excited about his birthday. We could hear the kids running around all excited about Ethan's streamers and Ethan's birthday cake. Before we even got out of bed I heard Tate yell, "Ethan I know what you cake is... It's a spinner cake!" Way to ruin the surprise Tate!! haha The rest of the kids kept trying to keep Ethan away from the kitchen so that he couldn't see his cake. Then a little after breakfast Brandon mentioned opening Ethan's presents. Which of coarse Ethan was all for! So we called the kids in that wanted to see him open presents and opened them up.
Ethan loved all of his presents from just his family. We told everyone that they didn't need to get him anything. After presents we decided to go get some shaved ice at this "shivers" place that we tried to go to on the 4th of July but was closed. So I figured that would be fun for Ethan's birthday! So we headed there right before lunch time.
We even got Ethan a small instead of a mini sized shaved ice because it was his birthday. It was super sweet though so he didn't finish it. haha He is such a handsome little boy!
All of the other kids were pretty stoked about their snow cones as well.
Emmett got the pick of the litter. haha My shaved ice had way too much syrup in it so I didn't really care to eat all that much of it. So I let Emmett drink my sugary syrup. haha
He was in love with it. I am surprised he wasn't bouncing off the walls for the rest of the day with how much sugar was in those things. haha
Pool time!! Emmett can't resist getting into a pool even when we tell him not yet and that he needs to get his swim suit on. As soon as we turn around or he sneaks outside he is in the pool with his clothes on. haha
We also did some water balloons and uncle John let the kids have a few free shots to his bum. haha The kids were enjoying it a little too much! haha Sadly none of the balloons would pop. They kept bouncing off of him and popping on the floor! haha
Cake time!! He was pretty excited about his spinner cake!
What a handsome little man!! Thankfully the cake tasted pretty yummy this time compared to last year!! The kids ate it up with some ice cream and then ran outside to play some more. Since bed time was coming up super fast we decided to have some bubble fun before bed time!
If you can't tell by the pictures.. the kids had a blast with the bubble machine before bed time. So bubbles ended our fun of the reunion. The kids were put to bed and us adults had a little Family Home Evening about our marriage relationships. We talked about what we were attracted to when we first met our spouses and then played a "not so newly wed" game. It was really fun! I am too competitive and couldn't believe Brandon and I were almost in last place. haha With all the lack of sleep we had gotten that week with sleeping on a crap air mattress my brain was having a hard time functioning and I was doing terrible at the game. haha Thankfully we came in 3rd place at least and it was a lot of fun. After playing that game for a while we played the writing sheraids game. We had so many laughs that night. We were all laughing so hard that we were crying! It was a great way to end the reunion. The next morning was pack up and leave day. Andy had to leave early for a meeting before church and so we said our good byes to her and then finished packing up everything. Then right before leaving Brandon and I tackled a little bit of cleaning for Vandy. I mopped the kitchen floor and Brandon cleaned the bathroom. We figured with Vandy being 6 months pregnant and Tyrel leaving the next afternoon for the week it would be helpful if she didn't have to feel like she had to clean up a completely destroyed house because of all of us people invading their home for a week. After cleaning up a little bit we got the kids in the car and made our 7 hour trip home. Our trip home went pretty well. We stopped half way and got some lunch at an Italian place that Tyrel had suggested and it turned out to be pretty tasty. Then we drove the last little bit home. We got home and were able to unpack a little bit and let the kids play. Brandon then headed out to grab some dinner for us since we really didn't have anything at home to eat that would be substantial. So he grabbed some burgers from Freddy's for the kids and some burritos from Taco Bell for us. We ate some dinner, got the kids bathed up and then put them to bed. Sadly, Brandon had to go back to work the next day. However, we were so glad to be home and to be able to sleep in our own beds! I literally could not have slept on that air mattress one more day. My back and neck were hurting so bad and I slept so crappy. I was so exhausted that I was having such a hard time just functioning. So to lay on our bed that night felt so amazing!! Even though we didn't get much sleep and our backs hurt us because of the bed we were sleeping on we had lots of laughs and made good memories. Plus the kids had so much fun together and really played well together for most of the time we were together which was a success! So it was a good reunion and it always makes us sad that we don't have family living by us to be able to see them more often! For now we will take advantage of the times that we do get together!
Look at that handsome boy. He is looking so much older these days! It is crazy how fast they grow up! We sure do love him!!
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