A Fantastically Fabulous Family Reunion Full of Fun in Florida!

What a blast!!!! We had a great little family reunion, but were very sad my brother Scott and his family couldn't be with us. But with a son that is about to enter his SENIOR year of High School I can understand that a smaller immediate family vacation is needed! We will have to have them next time. And YES there has to be a next time because this was way too much fun! We had 21 of us in total including 2 babies that I hadn't met until this trip. Brayden is now 8 months and Max just 7 weeks old and they were the BEST little babies ever! Gavin couldn't get enough of them and always wanted to hold them :)

We had planned to stay the whole week in some cabins located in our church ranch, but when I was just there for girls camp there were tons of bugs and we were afraid the babies shouldn't be out there too long. So we only stayed there one night and the rest of the time my good friend Amy was going to let us use her house while she and her family are out in Utah visiting family. BUT plans changed because we were having WAY to much fun staying up talking, laughing, and watching the kids dance and no one wanted to leave! So instead we had all 21 people here in my little house! I can't believe it worked and that everyone was so gracious and flexible as they had to lay air mattresses out and then put them back up the next morning so we could walk around. It was great to have everyone here in my home. My house really felt like a home with Grandma sitting at the piano playing a duet with my niece Brynlie, Grandma reading to the grand kids, kids running around giggling and having fun. I enjoyed every minute of our time together! Here are TONS of pictures...you will feel like you were there after seeing all the pictures I posted. I actually think I did pretty good at only picking a few considering between my sisters and I we had almost 900 pictures :)

Here's some of the fun things we did....

Friday Gatorland

Saturday Clearwater Beach

Sunday, July 12th - I somehow convinced my family to sing I Am A Child of God with me in church :) THANKS FAMILY!

Monday, July 13th - headed to the church ranch. There was a fun RUSTIC water slide (or should I say MUD slide), canoeing, and the kids favorite CATCHING FROGS! I'm guessing they caught more than 200!

Tuesday, July 14th - played at the ranch some more.

Wednesday, July 15th - Disney World!

Thursday, July 16th - New Smyrna Beach and we celebrated my niece Savannah's 5th birthday! What a fun party!

Friday, July 17th - Rock Springs for tubing

Saturday, July 18th - The Rose resort for relaxing and togetherness and that night Matt and I had to chaperone a Stake Dance and so we took my nephew Tyson. And after all the fun things we did all week I think the dance was the highlight for him :)

Sunday Tyler and Anna and their family had to leave :( And then Kim and Morgan blessed their baby Max in our ward! How fun was that!

Monday everyone started to leave me :( And by Tuesday they were all gone....back to real life. It is WAY too quiet!

Did I mention my family got to experience many of the Florida thunderstorms!

I couldn't believe my brave little Luke wanted to go sit on the gator!

Yes this is all the men on the slide...very funny site to see them make a HUGE splash at the bottom in the mud!

I couldn't get enough of holding my cute little nephew MAX! What a sweet little babe!

Brayden was so happy the whole day!!!!!! He always had this little grin on even when it was sweltering hot and soooo humid! What a little trooper!

I'm sooo sad it's over but glad for all the fun memories we made! We missed you Scott, Becky, Danny, Devin, Kaelie, Dallen, and Karissa! We will have to do it again!