Gwilliam Reunion Part 1

Family Reunion Part 1

We got home from Bend Saturday night at about 6:30, and needed to be on the road as early as possible Sunday morning to head to our family reunion with the Hutchins in Oakley, UT.  Hailey rode with us down there. 

 We stopped by Kayla and Thomas' house for dinner, she makes the best spaghetti! This is their cute house in Ogden!

 The Hutchins reunion was filled with fun and games.  It rained most of the time we were there, but there was a pool table and a ping pong table, which, besides swimming, are the most favorite things to do if you are a Hutchins.  Me not so much, but it was fun to watch.  There was a week long pool, Rook, Uno and Ping Pong tournament.  Lisa and I woke up early one morning and went walking.  I miss her.  It was so good to visit and get some time together without the other 50 people there.  Mandy and I also went one morning, she is a gem, we had a great time too.  It was so fun to watch the cousins interact with each other.  Brady is loving being in the "older boys" group now.  They all got to sleep out in the cabin, which Brooklyn was miffed about because "the boys always get to have all the fun."  But he loved hanging out with the older boys, I hardly saw him all week.  Brooklyn had fun with the girls as well, but there are not many of them.  One night we had a family dance which was so fun! Thad and Trina taught all of us how to waltz, swing and two step.  It was a blast.  The teenagers learned all kinds of things and had a great time dancing! We also did the chicken dance and the hokey pokey with the little kids, which was hilarious!

All Star State Playoffs

Since the boys won districts we are now headed off to state which is in Bend.  We left this afternoon about 12.  Brady, Carson and I are excited for a fun trip!

 The other kids are at home.  Brooklyn is at basketball camp at E.O.U and the the little ones are hanging out at Connie's this afternoon, which they are so excited about.  We got to Bend about 4:00, opening ceremonies started at 5:30, so we had a lot of time, or so we thought.  We were given the wrong address and were driving around and around trying to find out where we were supposed to be, we finally got there about 5:15.  It was held at the Bend Elks field (a minor league team.)  It wasn't anything too fancy, but was fun to be there.

 We watched a little bit of the game, but went to John & Tracy's early.  My friend Katie asked her brother and his wife if we could stay there for the week, it was so nice to have a place to stay and not have to pay for a hotel for 7 nights!  There first game was at 9 on Saturday morning against West Salem. They did great and won in 4 innings 15-0.  After the game all of the team went to the Sun Mountain Fun Center to celebrate Anthony's birthday.  Brady had a blast, he rode go-carts, bumper carts, mini golf, bowling and the batting cages, it was a lot of fun.

Carson slept in his stroller for most of the time, which was really nice.  Sunday the team played at 11, we went to church, hung out and then went to the lake for a picnic dinner with John & Tracy.  It was nice to relax and spend some time visiting.  They won their game 2-1, close!  We played Monday night at 6 against Clackamas. We lost 10-5, tons of errors and we didn't play very good at all.  Tuesday morning they had batting practice out at the RV park where the coaches were staying at 10.  Then the game got cancelled that night because of rain, which moved the whole tournie back a day.  Wednesday, batting practice again and then Brian took the boys to the movie, Planes 2, which was nice Brady had a good time and enjoyed the movie, Carson took a long nap and I did some shopping as well.  We won Wednesday night 11-10 against Medford.  We were down 10-3 in the bottom of the sixth we came back and won 11-10, it was a crazy game!!  Very exciting!  Brady started off the batting order and got a base hit!  Thursday at 4 we played Cedar Mills and won 10-3. Chas, Beckett and Emree were able to come over for the rest of the tournament.
Friday they played again at 4 against Clackamas, we won in 4 innings 10-0.  So we were in the championship against Bend.  The boys played well, but had a couple bad errors so we ended up losing to Bend 17-10.  Brady had a great season and has improved so much, he loves baseball!!

camping at olive lake

we had a fun family vacation going up to olive lake. It has some beautiful scenery and we hiked all the way around the lake! They have some cliffs that the 2 older ones jumped off of and that was fun to. We also did some fishin'.  Emree loves to fish, everyone else not so much, but she loved it! This was the perfect way to spend my birthday weekend, love these guys!

Cast is off!

Yay!! The day is finally here, although I can't complain 3 weeks is not very long, but long enough to carry a hefty 2 year old with a cast around.  He is pretty tentative walking on it, I am sure it will take awhile before it is all the way healed and he feels comfortable putting all his weight on it.  So excited for a real bath tonight!

Carson's 2nd Birthday!

We had a little party for Carson on his birthday, can't believe he is two already.  

Things he loves:

Baby Einstein movies

animals

showers in my new shower

anything to do with being outside

His favorite words are: 

Me, Me, Me, Mine ( he is very independent and wants to do everything by himself.

Mommy 

Daddy

JoJo

 Gokie (Brookie)

Baby (brady)

He is finally getting used to nursery, he loves to sing the sunbeam song, and popcorn.

He still limps on his leg and it's really funny to watch him try and run.  He keeps us laughing and is such a joy.  He is a typical two year old and has started throwing screaming fits and temper tantrums, it's hard being the youngest you know.