Aird Family Reunion 2013

We had an absolute blast at the Aird family reunion this year. Dan and Amber set the bar pretty high as far as reunions go. All 29 of us went up to park city and rented a cabin for a couple of days (we were only missing one person: Ali's husband Ben who was in Afghanistan).

One day, Amber and Dan had planned a video scavenger hunt. they broke us up into four teams and it was so much fun! we had a list of things to search and take a picture of. it was hilarious to see what all the teams came up with. 

Here we are on our way to the shuttle to head into park city

 

Dad with Savannah and Will.

kids with "livestock" (I hope that didn't count)

 "Someone" talking on a cell phone.

 posing like a statue

 someone (Jake) in a tree

 "Someone" eating a caramel apple

 Not only did we have a scavenger hunt, Papa and Dan both gave a wonderful devotional for the two nights we were there. (Yes, that's a Christmas tree in the background. The whole cabin was decorated for Christmas. There were plenty of Christmas jokes going around the whole time we were there.)

 Listening intently

It was so fun to plan and execute a surprise baby shower for Amber while we were there. It was difficult because she had something planned for all hours of the day, but while some were playing ping pong, my mom and I sneaked away and decorated Michelle and Robby's room so Amber would be surprised. It was super hard to be sneaky while Amber was asking where I was.

I think my mom and I did pretty well considering the time constraint on disappearing without looking conspicuous.

 

 One of the best parts of the party was trying to figure out a reason to get Amber into the room to surprise her. I told Michelle to get her there. Michelle made up a lame story about Sarah wetting the bed and needing Amber to come help her clean it up. Nothing like getting a pregnant girl off the couch to help clean up someone's child's pee! Amber was a little upset about it, but she was a good sport when she realized what was actually going on.

 

Michelle and the girls

 playing the candy bar game

 

opening cute little baby boy presents

The boys playing pool

singing karaoke. It was so much fun

 

playing around the world ping pong. I kinda suck at it, but I did beat Robby at regular ping pong so I got an ego boost.

 

Spencer and Ben hanging out

 

the grand kids (not so hot) hot tubbing

 

This is how girls hang out in the media room

 

this is how boys hang out

chilling some more

 

Candy and Alyssa have twin hair! I actually got mixed up a few times on who was who as they ran around.

 

Girls hanging on a bench eating otter pops 

Amberly and Spencer's Family

 

Michelle's family

 

Dan and Amber's family

 

Mom and Dad

 

Ali and her kiddos

 

how do you make a single person uncomfortable? take a "family picture" of just him. hahahha! I love him.

 

Mom and Dad with all the grandchildren. Soon to be outdated because Amber's baby is due in November and Amberly's baby is due in March.

 

Our family

 

Thanks so much Dan and Amber! I can't wait until next years reunion!

painting and making it our own

 soon after moving in, I got to work painting. I started with lily's room, then the master bedroom, then the patio set the previous owners left behind.

This is Lily's room before I made it over. (sorry it's blurry. I was trying to be sneaky and take a picture while the girl who owned the house was turned around.)

 This is Lily's room after I painted it.

I found a cute idea online to use a round mirror and paint a flower around it. This is my own take on that project. I like the 'hidden' sunburst.

 

Alyssa hanging out with me while I unpacked and loaded up the new kitchen

 Hanging out eating popsicles on our covered patio after church one day.

 The owners before us asked if we would like their old patio set. it wasn't in the greatest condition, but since we didn't have a set we said yes.

Before:

 during: (primed)

  After: painted

I stenciled the top to add some personality

I bought some cute cushions. It was a crazy process to finally get some at a reasonable price. These were my fourth choice. But they grew on me.

  and finally, the finished product. It only took 11 hours and three coats of paint. but I think it was well worth it.

Don't you love it?! I think it adds some brightness to a somewhat brown, gray and dark space.

Zoo and FIreworks

 I went to the zoo with Dan and Amber and their girls as well as Ben. We had a great time, but I didn't take many pictures.

 They weren't too excited to take a picture in the eagles nest.

 For the fourth of July, we didn't do much of anything. When I asked Lily how she wanted her hair done for the fourth of July she said "I want it like a firework!" So I did this...

 

I know, it's hideous right?!

 

When I finished, I asked her if I could please take it out and start over. She said she wanted to see it first and took off running to look at it in the mirror. She came back grinning from ear to ear touting that she had the "best firework hair ever!" Oh well at least SHE liked it.

 

The kids asked me if I would paint their faces so I agreed. Lily wanted a flag heart with "yellow."

 

Jake wanted a "mask" so I painted this:

 

He didn't like that it didn't cover both the top and bottom of his eyes, so I finished it up like this:

 

He liked it much better, but I didn't like it much. oh well. They let me paint their faces, so I shouldn't complain.

 We hung-out at home and then we decided to go to the firework show in North Salt Lake.  We parked up above where the fireworks are shot off. It was a little bit uncomfortable sitting on the sidewalk, but the kids loved it.

 Chilling before hand

 Lily kept saying "ooooh a SPARKLY one!" after each firework. and also said things like "It's SO magical!" The young couple sitting behind us were laughing at our kids and the things they were saying. We ate lots of candy and had a fun (albeit a little short) time.

Happy Fourth of July!