Family Reunion Fun

Sabin Family Reunion 2013

My Mom did a great job planning our family reunion this year. She based it off a comment that my Grandpa Bill had made a couple months before when he said, "Treasure these moments." My Grandma Joyce's health isn't too well (neither is my Grandpa Paul's health) so he was meaning to enjoy these days and times we are living now. So that's what we did this weekend. We reminisced, played, ate, laughed and had a good time with each other. Oh and we took lots of pictures and it was hard to decide which pictures to include so I just included lots. 

Getting the yard ready for when everyone shows up later that day. 

My Mom made new princess dresses for the girls to wear. Lindsey wore this Tinkerbell dress all weekend. Next time we come, I'm not packing her any clothes! She wore this and a swimsuit most of the time.

Hailey got these glasses and told Jeni that she wanted to give them to Preston. Since Preston has memorized all 50 states all the cousins are pretty impressed (well us adults are too) and so they think of Preston whenever they see stuff related to the states. Pretty funny and so cute of Hailey to think of him. He LOVED these glasses too. 

After the little fire where we roasted marshmallows for s'mores, we went out by the hay field and my Dad made a big bonfire. Marci, the great aunt she is, had music playing on her phone so the kids could sing and dance. They loved it.

My awesome parents. :)

Kevin whipping the kids around on the "magic carpet ride". I like the look of Carter and Kate's faces because it looks like they were hanging on pretty tight so they wouldn't fall off!

All the grandkids in their matching Treasure These Moments t-shirts my parents had made.

L-R: Aubree holding Zane, Paige, Preston, Kate holding Chelsea, Lindsey, Carter holding Baylor, Hailey and Reagan.

Since the theme was "Treasure These Moments" we had to go on a Treasure Hunt (or hike). 

Here's our map and off we went.

Some of us hiking up the trail. I thought the hunt or hike was going to be more kid friendly like a previous hike my Dad took the kids on. This one was longer than I expected so I didn't bring our backpack carrier. I was complaining a bit about it. And really it wasn't that steep or hard, but it would have been nice to have a backpack carrier or something had I known it was a couple miles. But it worked out fine because between a few of us we took turns holding Chelsea and Zane. 

It made it better that I had a cute face to look at. It looks like she's waving. ha!

The steepest hill on the hike to get to the very top of the hill. This is a cool picture probably taken by Sara so most of us our in it. 

Gorgeous views of the Columbia River and the farmland at the top of the hike. Breathtaking!

The kids are following the map's directions to the cave in the side of the rock where they found the treasure!

They each got a disposable camera to capture their favorite moments from the reunion. My Mom gave them each a frame to put a picture in from their camera.

Preston found a good place to put his camera. haha! He was walking back down the trail with my Mom and they were looking at rocks for Aubree. My Mom found one that was bent and asked Preston if it looked like California and he said, "no that looks more like Delaware." haha! Then he found one later that looked like Jupiter because it had rings on it. 

Marking my territory and leaving memories. ;)

Taking business calls on the treasure hike

We came back after the hike and ate yummy Frito banditos.

My Mom got the kids a treasure box that they could paint. She cut out vinyl lettering to put on top of the box that said "Treasure these Moments". 

Treasure Box Pinata time! We were all lovin' the candy.

Saturday night we had a restaurant because growing up we pretended to have a restaurant or movie theater and it was so fun! Good memories! We served Hamburgers, Hot dogs, Chicken nuggets, fries (all sorts of fries) and milk shakes (all sorts of milk shakes, even fresh strawberry one's). 

On Sunday, we went to Church in the morning, had a yummy pork roast dinner then some took naps. In the afternoon, we played a jeopardy game with trivia questions from our family's memories. We also had a fashion show with old costumes that we wore as kids and we had to guess who wore what. It's fun reminiscing and making jokes about stuff we did. It's fun laughing about it all. 

Sunday night my Mom made her famous spud-nut donuts. Mmmmm! They were delish! Thanks Mom, Dad and all my siblings for a great family reunion! We definitely "Treasured These Moments" at our reunion.