My parents, my brothers and sisters, our families, and Grandpa and Grandma Ellingford got together for a little family reunion. We had a fun couple of days! The guys went golfing, the girls did pedicures and cooked meals and treats, we all went flying, played lots of board and card games, went geocaching, and played an entire afternoon in the water...lots of fun!
Mom made arrangements for us to go flying with a gentleman with a 4 seater plane. Bracken was able to go flying with Brian, Seth and I. Seth (13) got to fly most of the time while we were in the air, and he loved to dive the plane so that we'd lose our stomachs and go in tight, steep circles. I finally had to tell Seth to stop diving because it was making me sick, but Bracken just held onto my hand tighter and never made a sound. A week or so later I overheard him telling Chandra, "I went flying in an airplane with Mommy and Daddy. Seth made it dive and Mom got a little scared, but I was brave Chandra. When you are big, you can fly in an airplane too."
We rented a 18 foot inflatable water slide one afternoon. It was a blast! It was actually pretty hard to climb up, and so us older kids played on it the most. We had relay races where the people who were watching laughed so hard their stomachs hurt, and I think we all got injuries of some sort from falling down the stairs. But the laughs were worth the pain!
Grandma Ginger and Grandpa Rudy. Love you guys!
The whole crew.
Kylie and Bracken...they loved the sandbox.
It was nice having organized activities for our reunion, because it kept everyone together. Normally when we go home it seems like everyone is running in ten different directions. Thanks for putting it all together Mom and Dad!
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