And The Fun Just Keeps Coming

This past week we went to our timeshare in Flagstaff. This is always an enjoyable week to just relax and enjoy the nice cool weather. This year Wayne and I went up on Sunday and had until Tuesday afternoon to just relax and do nothing but read and watch movies and I worked on my counted cross stitch Christmas ornaments. Tuesday Carrie and her children along with Aubrey came up. On Wednesday Marcus and his three children rolled in. Reddin, Karen, and their children along with Brendon came up Thursday evening. I was kind of worried where we would put everyone but that worked out just fine and all eight of my grandchildren did well playing with each other and getting along for the most part. I think we all had an great time and accomplished some things, shopping, sewing, scrapbooking, reading, swimming, hiking, playing baseball, and just plain soaking up the COOL.

The Family minus six

Playing baseball

The outfielders - Aubrey, Payton, and Neil

Outfielders with an attitude

Reluctant batter

Kayda Jane

Spectators

Matty

Matty and Dad catching some Z's

Grandma couldn't watch them hanging over the balcony

See if you can shoot that bush

Payton taking aim

Fun in the kiddie pool

Just hanging out

More fun

Abby and Mom taking a siesta in the sun

Great form on the mini course

Now where did that ball go?

Rub-a-dub-dub

Six kids in a tub!

Abby watching (not) a movie with Aubrey

Matty just hanging out with his toys

Abby eating and watching a "boobie" on her "DBD" player

Everyone entranced by the movie

Neil playing games and Karen scrapbooking

Liam and Dad having "Daddy Time"

Kayda gets black licorice

Yum! Yum!

Another Wild Week

Travis, Stephanie, and Collin came to spend a week at our house and what a great time we had. Aubrey reported her mission on Sunday and we had a dinner afterwards.

On Monday we went over to the Salmon's for FHE and a great get together with everyone who is around. We had really yummy food and a lot of good visiting. We missed Kristen and her family and Spencer and his family from the Brimleys. We missed Scotty and his family, Taryn and Russell TLM, and Syrell from the Salmons. Just Trevor was missed from the Evans

For Family Home Evening Jeanine had all the missionaries stand up and tell about an experience they had on their mission where they could see the change as people learned about our Savior and his atonement. Aubrey started out as the newest return missionary. It was very good to hear from all the RM's. We have a few and they all went different places throughout the world.

On Tuesday we had Bunko Night! What a great time we had. Wayne and Megan were a bit gimpy but everyone had a good time. We got Stephanie's mom, Sharon to come play with us since we needed another player and couldn't find one. She was so fun to have play with us and such a good sport to come at the last minute.

On Thursday all the girls got to go back to Tempe for a Bridal Shower for Syrell. I left without my camera so I didn't get any pictures but sufice it to say we did have a good time and there were a lot of good things to eat, especially the chocolate macadamia nut turtles. Mmmm, mmmm, good!

Does Collin not have great facial expression. He is a little crack up and a cheeser in front of the camera. I love it! It was so fun to have my 10 grandchildren all together and almost all my children all together. Two more weeks and then at Christmas we will all be together. While all the grandchildren were here we decided to take pictures of them.

The set-up

Oops!

Oops again!

Let's try again

That didn't work!

Not too bad!

Thirty six pictures later and we still don't have a good one. We were expecting miracles to get 10 children under the age of seven to all look at the camera and smile at the same time.

Reddin, Karen, Payton, and Kayda

Marcus, Ruth, Neil, Liam, and Adele

Brendon, Carrie, Sawyer, Abigail, and Matthew

Travis, Stephanie, and Collin

I love my family!