Blast to the Past

We had our family reunion over Labor Day Weekend and the theme was "blast to the past"-to my parents' past, their traditions and memories. Everyone gathered at Boulder Resort (aka my parent's house...I'll have to give the background story on that name). My mom had some fun things planned for us this weekend. And of course, she cooked up a storm and we all left 5 pounds heavier. We met up at Jared's football game in Warden on Friday night.

Our own little cheerleaders for Jared

Jared the stud muffin! He's the quarterback and when he was on defense a player from the other team clipped him in the back and the referees didn't do anything about it. You should have seen us react! My sister, my brother-in-law and me were so mad! The player was doing other dirty stuff too- he wasn't nice. We were saying we were like the mafia- hurt our brother and you mess with us! haha!

My parent's used to go to the Ellensburg parade (we did too growing up) so we went there on Saturday morning. Jeni made all the tie dye t-shirts for everyone. They turned out cute.

More spectators! Woot woot!

Hailey posing as the cute cowgirl

Kate was having a melt down over something...then 2 minutes later she was...

FINE! Hmmmm!

All the grandkids! This was taken at my Grandpa Paul and Grandma Helen Gene's house. After the parade, we went to this park where my Dad used to play baseball and it had toys for the kids to play on. My parent's brought food for a picnic and KFC chicken. Well, we whip out the food and start dishing up and a swarm of bees are suddenly upon us. It was crazy! We were walking around holding our plates trying to get the bees away. We were sitting far away from our picnic table trying to see if the bees would leave us alone...they didn't so we packed up in a rush and went to my grandparents to finish our picnic. Dumb bees!

My parent's pulled out some things from their childhood to show us and they shared some stories. I loved this picture of the kids intently listening to my Mom. Kate liked my Mom's dolls and troll she had growing up. We had a quiz later that night on the stories from my parent's past. It was fun and Jeni won that game. Then we had a "Stake Dance" and my Mom had a bunch of music from their era and we fast danced and slow danced. We also played a game where we came up with names of people or things and played guys against girls- it was like Catch Phrase where you have to describe the word. It was fun and us girls won. We also played a bunch of games of bump on the basketball court and played bocce ball. Lots of games!

On Monday, we said goodbye to Jeff, Sadie and Reagan as they made their trek back to Idaho. Then the rest of us went up to Moses Lake to their aquatic park. The kids loved it and afterwards we went to Derek and Sara's for pizza. We hung out there before we left for home. It was my first time seeing their house and Sara does a good job decorating. It was fun to see all her crafts she's made and bargains she's found from random thrift stores.

The "Blast to the Past" was fun. My Mom made us little photo books with some pictures of my parent's when they were little and they were so adorable! Hearing them talk about their memories and childhood makes you realize how fast time goes by.