White Family Reunion 2012 - part I

This year for my mom's side of the family reunion with my Grandma White we went to Brianhead UT and stayed in this beautiful lodge right in the middle of the mountains. It was so nice to be away from the desert for a few days enjoying big trees, cooler weather, even some rain! I think the events of the reunion are best told through pictures...surprised to hear me say that?!

A nature scavenger hunt!

My beautiful mom, Grandma and Aunt Shelly

My cute Grandma wears this awesome apron every reunion that has pockets all over and she puts special prizes in the pockets. The great grandkids get to pick a prize from a pocket when she comes out in it. A favorite tradition of mine!

My beautiful niece who was quite enamored by horny toads.

We had a cupcake eating contest and I was so proud of my son who just dove right in!

Even my 80 year old Grandma participated!

Not only can my Grandma eat a cupcake impressively fast but she can also crochet! She crocheted all these adorable hats and headbands for the great granddaughters. 

My cousin's little girl Emery being a perfect model. So cute right?!

Nita modeling the dress my Grandma crocheted! Isn't she talented?! (both the model and Grandma)

Bingo!!!! Every reunion since I can remember we have played Bingo and this year we had a special great grandkids Bingo game. 

Just a little Cleo cuteness!

I love this picture of my Aunt Sharlene helping Nolan play bingo. He is so intently listening to her.

My cousin's little boy who was quite the stud with a ball and anything he could hit it with. I was impresed...and he's adorable!

My Grandma who has faithfully served as our Bingo Caller for many many reunions. It is probably THE high light of every reunion...having Grandma call our rip roaring bingo game. 

Jill...just doing her part! :) This was really funny for us at the time so I mostly put this picture in here for her and I to reminisce. :)

TO BE CONTINUED...

July 4th...Damboree 2012!

I love love love the 4th of July especially in Boulder City. They sure know how to celebrate the 4th! It is a full day of events...a parade/water fight, burgers and park lounging and fireworks with more park lounging that night.

And a photo display of our Damboree 2012...

Here's the set up of the parade. The buckets and trash cans are FULL of water for the water fight portion of the parade. It is so much fun. The parade entries and the spectators just go nuts and soak everyone with water guns, water balloons and straight up bucket dumps!

Our friends joined us for the parade! Nolan and Chad were a bit startled but still in awe by the honking firetruck.

My friend Whitney's little girl fell asleep before the fun even began!

Love this pictures...just enjoying the sights. 

Ok I love this one too! They are two of the cutest there are!

And post water fight....we all got soaked. Nolan was totally in to it which was adorable. Cleo was a total champ. She even got splashed directly in the face with a cold bucket of water...and did she cry?! Nope! She just shook it off!

This is the only picture I have from the fireworks portion of the night, but I think you can tell we had a fun day! :)

We found a petting zoo!

We have an amazing couple of ladies who put on the day camp for scouts and this year they had a petting zoo that they invited the community to attend...so we went! Nolan got to pet an iguana, a parrot, and a wallaby! Cleo touched the iguana but lost interest after that.

Some Happenin's in May

Yeah that's right...May! I have come upon some hard times in regards to picture uploading on my computer and what's  good blog post with out picture (well for a lot of people it is actually just a witty entertaining slew of words...not here folks! Pictures needed!)

Well, back in May we had a couple photo worthy events...

We had bought a Toyota Camry, after our Suzuki Verona engine died. I had to drive up to St. George to get the registration taken care of though and happened to be able to do it the same weekend our friends, the Somerhalder's, were driving up to stay in their cabin. Soooo....conveniently enough the kids and I drove up and were able to stay at the cabin with them. Actually, Cleo and I just stayed the night and Nolan got to stay for the whole weekend. It was longest I have ever been away from him, 2 days, and he did great. I guess occasionally he would say "my mom is in Boulder City." Almost like a verbal reassurance. It was so nice of our friends to let him stick around with them because he 1. looooves the cabin and 2. looooves the Somerhalder's! It was a fun weekend for all involved!

While Nolan was off having fun and Blaine was working at a rotation, Cleo and I spent Memorial Day at the pool! She loves to swim and splash and try to drown! She seriously has no fear in the water. It makes for very happy pool visits.

Many more posts to come...ya' know since it is almost September I have my work cut out for me! Keep checking back :)

Ward County Fair

We had a ward party a couple of months ago that was set up as a ward county fair. It was so cute and a lot of fun. They served fried chicken, potato salad and rolls. There was some line dancing, crafts displayed and butter sculptures.

Cleo and I decked out in our county fair attire. 

Yep, butter sculptures. I thought, oh how fun! Nolan would love to mold some butter. We tried it...and failed. But Nolan was still proud and everyone who participated got a ribbon.

Thomas the Train

This is old but I still wanted to post about it...

Thomas the train came to visit Boulder City! Nolan was so excited. I love to see him get excited about stuff! Thomas came the same day of Cleo's 1st birthday so while Cleo and I got ready (aka Cleo slept and I ran around like a crazy lady making cake and other food!) Nolan and dad went on a special trip together to take a ride on Thomas!

At the end of the day there was a little train set up for kids to ride on as an added bonus. Nolan doesn't look happy but it was actually just really cold that day. He loved the added bonus!

"Mickey D's" for ice cream

The Somerhalder's are great. We had a spontaneous dinner at their house and then McDonald's for ice cream requested by Nolan. It is so nice to have such good friends especially while Blaine is so busy and away from home a lot. Oh and for my kids to love their kids so much...that is awesome!

Nolan and Daniel were having WAAAY to much fun in the tunnels and slide to have their picture taken ever.