Straight up CRAZY! (Family Reunion Part 4)

Lily is the first niece in a LONG time in the Porter family and the fact that she knows and loves her hair products made her a perfect doll for the older girls.  

It took them about an hour but they straightened Lily's hair.  She was not impressed that I HAD to get a picture.

  

Thankfully I got a much better one before she jumped into the big pool and her hair went curly again. 

Review of Campfire Marshmallows (Family Reunion Part 3)

Campfire Marshmallow (as modeled above by Coleton and Owen) are about 4 times bigger than your average mallow.

As with any food you must pray before consumption.  

 

Fluffy Bunny becomes a game where you see if someone can fit 1 marshmallow in their mouth. 

But MMMM. . . are they good! 

They make excellent goggly eyes even if it doesn't create a reaction from the crowd.  

Overall I think we had much more fun playing with the mallows then eating them.  As a toy good fun, for S'mores pretty junky.  They don't melt right and it far to much mallow to create the perfect chocolate-graham-mallow ratio.  Sadly even the kids complained of this fact.  

It was a BIG fish (Family Reunion Part 2)

Owen caught his first fish at the lake during the family reunion! He did it all on his own with his very own Batman fishing pole.  

He was out fishing with Chet and he usually has Chet cast it out and then he immediately reels it back in.  Well it had been a while since Chet had cast it for him so he went to check and Owen's trying to reel it in but it wasn't moving. Chet thought it was caught in the weeds so he wiggled it and shook it around and realized that Owen had caught a fish.  I was walking by when Chet figured out that he had a fish so I ran and got the camera in time to document him reeling in his first whooper!   

Porter Family Reunion (Part One)

We have given up on telling our kids in advance that we are going to grandma and grandpas house because it becomes a nut house just trying to get ready after we have mentioned it.  Leaving for the Porter Family Reunion this year was no different, within moments of telling Owen we were going to Grandpas house I walked into his room to find this . . .  

He was packed and ready to go.  Upon further inspection of the suitcase we found that he only packed PJ's and underwear.  Hey it works that would have gotten him very far.

Day One of the reunion we went to the lake.  My water babies were in heaven.  It amazes me how much entertainment my children can get from water. 

 

Taylor however stayed on shore and for the amount of time she spent in the pack "n" play she did great. 

 

Day Two we stayed at Cliff and Nancy's house and they had enough play equipment to keep us busy all day long.

 

The kids jumped for a while.

 

Posed for kissy face pictures.

 

And played in the water (some more). 

It was great fun while it lasted.  I can't wait till next year when Taylor is going to be running around with all the kids.  

Happy 4th!!!

She is so stinking cute but this is what happened when I put her bow in and wanted to take a picture.