Saturday, June 4, 2011

Myrick Family Reunion

 The 1st full day of the Myrick Family Reunion started off with a fun bike ride.  All were welcome to ride bikes from Grandma's to Aunt Christina's house, 8 miles away.  This is Grandma and Keira at the tail end of the pack.  Keira wanted so badly to ride the whole way, slow as she was.  Grandma stayed by her for about a mile. Keira then hitched a ride up to about 1/4 mile away from the finish.  What a trooper!



 Christina and I are modeling the cute little rings and clips she put together as trinkets for all the kids.  They were part of a treasure hunt that had them digging up the sand box.   




Can you see that carrot?  It's a double!  We had a good laugh about this oddball carrot. 



Keira loves horses.  She lets Ruby sniff her skirt.  I think Ruby thought there was a yummy treat mixed up in all those colors.  Keira was able to ride around by herself or with cousins.  

 We had a lot of fun activities going on all day.  Trampoline tricks, tug of war, treasure hunting, horse riding, water balloon toss, slip n'slide and of course visiting.  Grandma Betty and Grandma Dixie were out enjoying their family as well.  One of the best games required two teams to attempt getting their whole team on a piece of material.  Each stage of the game the material was folded smaller.  Stacking kids, one foot on and holding hands and leaning out were all tactics used by the winning team.  It was pretty entertaining!

All the kids slept in the tent city in Grandma's front yard.  The girls all bunked together with Dingo as their protector.  





In the boy tent we had to tickle the grumpies out of Jonah in order to get this cute picture.  He did not want to wake up for an early morning picture.  



Katie John mastered this cool trick and showed it off every chance she could.  Neat huh?  It's not as easy as it may seem.  

Other activities included red rover, more trampoline and jewelry making by Anna.  

A puzzle race was organized with two teams competing.  It was John, Julie, Sherry and Grandma against Angela, David, Shaun, Katie and Jennifer.  Each puzzle of was equal difficulty and 500 pieces.  Ready. Set. Go!  You're looking at the winning team!


One of the projects was to create a commercial for something.  Ours was about being prepared.  

Jonathan, Jonah, Mason and Justin depicted life on the farm as more than ideal.  



Giganta-Mellow

 

there is one more i'm trying to get uploaded....



Thursday, June 2, 2011

Swim Splash

The kids really enjoy swimming and the swim splash program is a good refresher before the summer swim season starts. This year our swim lessons were only two days out of four. One of the days was thundered and lightening'd out. Too dangerous to swim, so they sent us home. The other missed day fell during our family reunion. So we did the best we could and enjoyed the sun while it was out.
Keira learned to put her face in the water and blow bubbles as well as kicking her feet to go places. Sariah is practicing strokes she learned last year and using the kick-board. Katie John is also working on strokes as well as swimming longer distances .

Jonah worked in the deep pool swimming and diving. I think everyone had fun, even Lucas who was probably a little bored sometimes.
This is our last day picture! Swim...swim... swim!