Sweet Nothings: Brown Family Reunion

Headed out to the Brown Family Reunion. Jenna's family is moving to Connecticut because her husband Randy got a job offer to be the Institute Director at YALE UNIVERSITY! So we knew we needed to have one last reunion before they left across the country. We had quite the adventure driving there. We first stopped at Bearizona that is in Arizona. We drove in our car and had Bison, wolves, bears, goats, and rams surround our car. Sadly, the bears had just been fed so they were all laying around. Either way it was an awesome experience! Watching they bear cubs wrestle was they highlight! They were so cute!

THE GRAND CANYON

We stopped and saw the Grand Canyon, it was gorgeous!

Luke was really nervous about being by the edge. He kept asking us "What if a crazy guy comes and throws me over the edge?!" I think his nerves got to him because he was even willing to hold mine and Travis's hand!! We had to get a picture, haha!

FOUR CORNERS

Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico

We drove to the middle of no where to stand in 4 states at once! Drew tried standing right on the dot to say he stood in NO STATES....

All the kids in a different state!

Brynn 14yrs

Kennedy 13yrs

Luke 11yrs

Drew 8yrs

Kamryn 6yrs

Now that is talent.....Kissing in 4 states at once!

Sun-setting on our drive to Monticello

BROWN FAMILY REUNION

Siblings

Group Shot

We hiked to Indian Ruins, see them up in the caves.

Then we walked thru a tunnel under the mountain to the other side. I was brave and did it, but was shaking like a leaf...........the older I get the more claustrophobic I get!!!

Went to Blandings Pool after the hike, pretty much to use as our bath! We had no water for showers at camp for 2 days!

Travis giving CPR to

Drew!

Brynn and Mckayd share the same birthday this week, so they got to do Grandma and Grandpa's money jar!

RECAPTURE LAKE DAY

Went to play at Recapture Lake! Cousins all dancing to "Turn Down For What?"

Our sister freedom swim, we swam across the lake and came back real slow while listening to all the chaos of our children that we were coming back too. Haha!

Dance Party (Liz had us do dances to our era)

Dance Party with all the cousins

Playing on the Dude Ranch

Uncle Randy taking Kamryn and others

Smore Night with these cuties

Sadie, Kamryn, Davie, Riley, Dakota

TALENT SHOW NIGHT

Drew and Pearce showed their baseball skills

Salisbury Family doing a skit

Kamryn singing her heart out to Let It Go

Kennedy did the Napoleon Dance for the Talent show! She was Awesome!

Liz and I bought Jenna Tweezers and a Mirror for her birthday to take care of all of our whiskers!!

Makeup day for these little ones!
Riley, Addie, Davie, Kamryn, and Sadie

Really going to miss my sis Jenna! I will have to go out and see her!!

ARCHES NATIONAL PARK, MOAB UT

We hiked to Delicate Arch on our way out of town. It was so beautiful to see in person, I am so glad we took the time to hike it. It was 3 miles round trip and 100 degrees out. Kamryn cried most the way, which meant Travis had to carry her most of the way. On our way down we ended up giving 3 different Italians some water, and was was really bad with heat stroke that Travis had to help carry him down to his bus. So I went ahead with the kids and whinny Kamryn. She was asking me to carry her and I told her I couldn't, so then she turned her questions into "Why are you so weak mom?" So after getting chewed out by her and finally making it to flat ground I attempted to carry her for a bit. The Italians finally made it to their bus and we finally made it to the car and hit the road at 3:00pm for an 11 hour drive back to CA!!!!!!!