Grover Family Reunion

On July 17-19 we had the Jess and Afton Grover family reunion in Blanding hosted by my Uncle Clark's family. My brother Ryan timed his summer visit from Texas to make it to the reunion and it was good to celebrate his birthday with him while he was here (we did it early and he's holding his cake in the picture). I debated for a loong time if I should go as it was 5 hrs away and I was only a month away from having Aaron. After praying and talking to family members in particular my cousin Kristi who had done the same thing I decided to try and it was pretty fun.

At Kristi's in-laws cabin they had a ton of fun things to do and play on for the kids. Miriam loved the merry-go-round the best I think. She was well loved by the younger cousins in particular my cousin Jayna's son Aaron and Kristi's 2 boys Justin and Ian. They played with her and wanted to be wherever she was.

Aaron and Miriam, he was so cute with her. When he left to go home he had to make sure and say goodbye with a big hug. Then Miriam and the other kids had a great time with Eric playing all day, in particular on the trampoline (Eric invited me to join but I thought that was a great way to have my baby early!).

They also had 2 tournaments on Sat- horse shoes and pool. Eric didn't do very good at the horse shoes, his games took a long time because nobody could get enough points. He did very well at pool though, coming in second. My mom even got involved with both tournaments even though she never did anything with pool before. Miriam thought the pool game looked pretty fun and liked helping.

As mentioned before we got to help celebrate Ryan's birthday. Miriam has been working at blowing out candles since her birthday. She couldn't manage it then nor at mine or Jennifer's but she accomplished it with Ryan's cake! She'll be all set to conquer the 2 candles on her next birthday.

Thanks Kristi and Darrin for all your work to make it a great reunion!! The food was incredible (afterall isn't that the main part of a reunion)!