Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Stop #2: Homestead 2009


The whole crew.


4th of July. Playing sports...


...and roasting smores before watching fireworks from our balcony.


Blake enjoying some fanta that he bought with money he received from the tooth fairy. (See picture below!)


Uh, okay?! (He's going to kill me.)



Lots of good times with cousins. I'm always impressed that kids can pick up where they left off with cousins and friends that they haven't seen in a long time. It's a great quality, don't you think!?


Uncle Markie and Auntie Katie.


The mastermind of this awesome reunion (the one on the right). Check out Joanna playing Chris in a game of tether ball in the background.



The tooth fairy was nice enough to drop by the Homestead when Blake lost two teeth in two days- his first!


Family relay. We broke out the big guns for these watermelon racers. I think it was a tie.


Raisin' them proud. Watermelon interns.


More...


...fun...


...relay.


This dragonfly that Ethan caught was gorgeous! We decided it was best to let something this cool fly away safely.


The kids played kickball a lot in the cul-de-sac outside of our condos. It was a great set up.


In the back of grandpa's truck.





We got to go swimming in the crater. Darren, Blake, and Ethan snorkeled. I took Keaton and Nash to the swimming pool because they weren't old enough to go into the crater water.

The Bailey reunion was awesome...again. We love to see all of our family that we don't get to play with often enough! We are looking forward to the boys being old enough to have cousins come and stay with us during summer break. Bring on the fun! Thanks, Grandma and Grandpa for planning such a great, memorable time!

4 comments:

Joanna and Chris said...

I'm glad my presence at the family reunion was caught in an unskilled (on my part) tether ball game in the background.

Paula said...

Thanks for taking such great pictures. We need a copy of the whole family picture for Dad's class reunion. Could I get a copy?

Rass said...

The Bailey reunion looks less dirty than ours - Homestead sounds like a good option!!!!

Gina said...

That looks like so much fun. We need to have another Hanson Family Reunion, its been such a long time. It would be fun to get to hand out with you guys for a while.