Family Reunion (Water Activities Galore!)

We had so much fun on our family reunion. We went to an amazingly large swimming pool that was half water park (once with Beckie and her girls), went to Lagoon (an amusement park with a water park), had a water fight (Do you see a theme developing?) and had a pot luck and fireworks show for the fourth of July with my sister's husband's family, made a quilt together and just had fun with cousins, etc. I hardly ever saw Kaitlin. She was off with her cousins. Her is Carmen on the Merry-Go-Round at Lagoon.
This is a picture of Kaitlin on the bumper cars. Archie got a really good pose of her. All the younger kids loved the bumper cars. The older teenagers loved the big bumper cars too. We hardly saw any of the older kids. They were off by themselves having fun. All of us, however, got together for Rattlesnake Rapids (the ride like a river raft that gets you wet) because it was so hot. We were silly and did it at the end of the day, though, so the sun wasn't high in the sky and we never dried off.

This is Brody and Sara on the bumper cars. Debra's children are all so helpful to each other. I guess that's why she can manage 7 kids and one new baby!

This is the start of a water fight - the water balloon toss. The following pictures are of the water fight. I was taking pictures so I didn't get drenched - until the end when I gave my sister Pixie the camera momentarily.



Debra (my sister) with her new baby, Sara, Grandma, Kaitlin and Isaac all watching everyone else get wet. Kaitlin was hiding balloons behind Grandma to "protect" them for a big secret revenge play.

Kaitlin at the water tub which held the water balloons before the water fight began.

Here is a picture Ashley (one of Pixie's husband's sisters) got of the fireworks display we had at their farm. It was a cool picture so I had her email it to me. The wind kicked up and this is what resulted.