Saturday, August 9, 2008

Family Reunion (Don't be Jealous...)

We had a good time at our family reunion this year...

Our reunion consisted of a scavenger hunt, pinata, water games, and the EVER popular home made waterslide!!
The pool at the end of the waterslide...

Ellie and Grandpa, Ellie was VERY anti pictures today (I got screeched at more than once)!!

Ellie and Dan...

The boys lathering up...
This video was one of my favorites...basically because Shelby knew who was all coming down the hill, and he jumped over the bails of hay to escape.



This is at the very top, so you can see just how long the slide was...



This was Ellie on the car ride home...still being anti pictures, good thing Dan and I can laugh about it....

20 comments:

Meagan said...

Okay, those slip'n'slide videos are great, but the movie of Ellie being anti-pictures is the BEST! Tyler was laughing SO hard. I think I saw her eyes roll into the back of her head. Talk about attitude! That is the BEST!

The Gulls said...

I wanna come next time! the slide was awesome!! How did you not laugh at ellie. It was pretty funny though

Katy said...

At first I was just trying to annoy her (yes, I know not really adult-like), but then when Dan and I were watching it, we couldn't stop laughing!! :P

Charee B Mcclellan said...

man, you guys have an awesome family reunion. we eat a picnic and call it good. i will just have to put in a good word for next year. I don't know if all the 80 year old grandma's will want to go sliding.....but who knows.

Katie L. said...

That was awesome! Mat and I sat and watched the videos and laughed! How on earth did you guys make that?

Susan said...

Grandma hates getting her pictures taken too. And I have been known to behave just lilke that.

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carrie said...

So fun! My sister wants to do that homemade slip'n'slide thing too for her little boys birthday. I haven't done that since I was tiny, looks so fun! So I talked to my sister, and she said Monday would work for her, so do you want to plan on that? She said to just pick a time when you think Elle will by happy. I will call you a little later today to talk more about it. I think we will do some outside and some inside too.

carrie said...

Sorry, I just realized I spelled Ellie's name wrong, I hate when I do that kind of thing!

Ash said...

Oh my gosh, I love the water slide! Makes me miss the good old days when my dad would build them off their front porch (a bungalow). The picture of Ellie on Dan's back on the slide is great! I also loved the video of Ellie. Her eye rolling kills me.

Kristyn said...

Oh my gosh I've laready forgotten how green and absolutely be-utiful Utah is. Ah, I kinda miss it. And a homemade water slide? Can I be in your family please? There is nothing more fun on this planet than that!

Bethany said...

That looks so fun. I'm going to remember that for my next family reunion!

TiffanyHarrison said...

That Ellie is a crack up!! I was laughing so hard at the video because she has definate attitude!!(Just like my kids :^)

I also wanted to remind you about tomorrow night. Let me know if you can't make it...otherwise we will see you tomorrow!!:^)
Tiff

Leilini W. Kinikini said...

Ellie is a lil' DIVA...that girl got's ATTITUDE! I love it!
Can you just imagine her watching that when she has kids of her own! HA!
The reunion sounded like a blast, we did that type of a slip n' slide last year for ours...then somebody started putting dish soap on it to make it 10 times more slippery! There were bubbles EVERYWHERE!
Well I'll see you wed @ our girls night out!

And Ellie...girl don't ever change!

Jessica said...

That looks so dang fun. I've never heard of a home made slip-n-slide but I'm hoping you'll make one and invite us over.

Trent and Carlie & Co. said...

That reunion was a lot of fun! I can't believe we didn't get rained on! The weather was perfect! I too the same video but from a different view - I think that is the one I posted on our family blog. Ellie makes me laugh! I have really never heard her talk before! Funny! Plus - thanks for throwing the shower! It was fun!

Marla said...

Oh my that video of Ellie is the best! I love it!!! Oh, it looks like you guys had such a blast!

julie! said...

holy cow, I laughed so hard when I saw the video clip of Ellie. She is hilarious Katy!
o and I am SUPER jealous of your water slide. seriously.

The Randall Family said...

Hey! Thanks so much for the congratulations! We are so excited! I think we are going to be done after this one. This pregnancy has been so difficult. Besides, I think two is a good number and it will be a blast to have one of each. : )

It looks like you guys had a ton of fun at your family reunion. It would have been a blast to go down that huge water slide! : )

Wilkinson Family said...

Yes I'm jealous!!! I need the how to on making the slip n slide and I love Ellie's video, some times you have to NOT act like an adult! Did you ever find daycare for Ellie? I am thinking of babysitting when we move, hopefully I can find students or teachers kids, so if you know anyone pass it along!