Page Family Reunion 2011

 We  have our Page Family Reunion every 4th of July which consists of my husband's 5 siblings. We have 25 grandkids between the ages of 16 and 3 which makes for a lot of noise sometimes, but it is always a ton of fun and my kids cannot wait to play with their cousins each year. It is fun to get together with everyone and all of the kids get along really well. 

Grandpa and Grandma did games for the kids, which was a major hit.

Uncle Mark's brother Paul brought his snow cone machine and it was and everyone enjoyed it.

Hope sharing a bite of her snowcone with me. I love her blue lips.

Tyler and Lance

Grandma, Joslyn and Paige

Lance, I love those eyes. I can't  figure out how he got the blue that way. Too cute.

Later that night we played minute to win it with all of the grandkids which was an absolute riot. I think the kids really enjoyed watching each other.  

Levi

All the kids watching captivated.

Sophia

Lance

Hope

Brooklyn

Nick

Drew

I love Devin's face.

Paige and Misty

Kimball

Nate

Kialey

I love how happy he is that he got his apples stacked.

Kate

Seth

Josh

Don

Morgan

I caught the picture right as the dice fell.

Grandpa had to participate too.

Grandma got very nervous doing this.

The next day the older kids worked on their geocaching merit badge and hid some geocaches. These are the pictures of the kids finding the caches. Overall, I think the kids had a fun time. I know my kids did. 

Preston liked our dogs as long as they were tied up.

Bryce Canyon

 

Our oldest son loves to do anything scouts and Bryce Canyon was having an annual Astronomy festival last weekend; we decided to take him down so he could get his Astronomy merit badge earned and enjoy a little family vacation too. I remember going to Bryce Canyon as a kid, but it has been years since I have been there.  We have some very beautiful places in Utah and are very lucky to be able to visit them without driving very far. 

One of my favorite pictures of all 3 kids while we were hiking to Queen Victoria's Garden.                    

 They have a place they call Old Bryce Town. They have some little shops and these fun little things to take pictures. The funniest was when Tyler decided to get in the head pictures and didn't realize he was in the head of the lady.

Cory & Tyler

Don & Joslyn

One of the hoodoos that reminded me of prairie dogs.

When we had gone to a little hike the night before we went on this hike, the park Ranger told the kids that the hoodoos were formed from people being greedy and a coyote turned them to stone. The whole time we were hiking down in Joslyn was worried that we might see the coyote and she would be turned to stone.

 The kids were also able to build model rockets and get to shoot them off. They had fun watching the rockets. Tyler's flew into the trees behind where we were and had to go searching. I packed Don's parachute too tight so it didn't come out when it should have. Joslyn's parachute came off in flight, but luckily her rocket survived the landing.