ReCOONion 2013!!!

WARNING! PICTURE OVERLOAD!

(and this isn't even half of them!)

Here is Remington the morning before we left...helping me pack her stuff!!

Wow! Where do I even begin with the Reunion this year. It was seriously such a blast! We had it up at Jerry's land past bone. It's beautiful up there, and there is so much room for everyone to explore and play!

We got there on Thursday night and set up out tent. Remington thought that the tent was seriously the coolest thing ever, and she didn't want to come out of it! 

Sharla set up two different scavenger hunts for first the youngest kids, and then the older kids. We walked around the land to different clues. The kids prize at the end was their reunion shirt, some glow sticks and a couple of toys. When we found the treasure, Remington though it was so awesome! She grabbed her bag and pointed toward Eli because she wanted to show him! It was such a cute Idea.

We sat around the campfire that night and sang happy birthday to Dylan and Finley and had yummy smores. We brought out the guitars and played some silly games! It actually wasn't too cold that night. We had Remi's pack n play loaded with blankets for her plus we warmed up the tent before hand with our tent heater (score from DI!)

 The next morning, we started the day off by rides in the train! Shar and Justin brought this up, and it was definitely a HIT! Savanah took Remington with her and Remi loved it. 

Ready to ride! Hailey, Beth, Sav, and Remi!

 All of the girls waiting for their turn!

Sharla also took all of us adult girls for a ride later on. Let's just say Sharla didn't exactly go the slowest haha and we almost fell off a couple time when we'd hit a bump! SO MUCH FUN! We even had Katie on there trying to get her into labor! :)

Later on that day we spray painted some marshmallow guns that Aunt Sharla brought everyone! 

We played forever, just shooting marshmallow after marshmallow! 

Didn't quite get the marshmallow coming out!

Love this picture of Dyl bug!!

It got pretty messy! We had the marshmallows covered in flour so 

that you could see where you hit your target!

My cute hubby joining the kids and making his gun.

Grandpa Anderson even got in on the fun!! He was pretty sneaky!

 The babies didn't even notice the marshmallow war. They were content to play in this car the ENTIRE time we were camping. I am not complaining one bit! It was pretty easy to keep track of them! :)

We ended up finding one in the Blackfoot thrift store that next week for Remi!

Sharla just kept surprising us with so many more fun things!

She planned a creek hike for the kids and dumped coins, pebbles, stones, action figures, bugs and so much more ALL over the creek for the kids to find! They spent the whole day searching for all of their treasures!

Remi thought it was so cool to find stuff in the water. She even thought the pennies might make a good treat... YIKES!

 This water slide was SO MUCH FUN! (I keep saying that, but we seriously had such a blast.)

We smoothed the rocks as much as we could and let the kids have at it! 

I tried it and lets say it wasn't as comfortable as I thought it would be, and I can't do things like that anymore! ha! Grandma Patsy sent Remi down to daddy and she loved it! She kept signing more more! 

Me and baby girl!

Daddy and Remi looking for more treasures!

Somebody found an old calender where the cabin used to be...I had to snap a couple of pictures! 

Seriously, Eli is such a stinking cute baby! No wonder Remi is so adorable ;)

I can really see her a lot in him!

Loving the hairstlye sistas!! You are all adorable. Chloe looks just like Everett! 

Our kids seriosuly have the coolest grandma around!!

She taught the kids the "Book of Mormon Hauka" so that they could preform it for us! They all had war paint and book of mormons! It was seriously awesome!! 

We had a couple of devotionals that I am really grateful for. Jerry challenged us to always be there for our family, to love them and stand by the. To lift them up and not drag them down by talking badly of others. It was so nice and really touched a lot of us. 

I love my family that gets to be mine forever. They are the best!

Grandpa and Grandma Coon and all 28 of their grandkids! (only 27 here,sweet little Maverick wasn't born quite yet, but he was in Katie's belly :) 

Actually not to dirty here, but this girl was a busy little woman, playing in the dirt, with cousins, with mom and dad and loving every second of it! She was not afraid to get dirty at all!

Ok so here comes my FAVORITE part!!! 

Shar and Justin had the volleyball court all tilled up and ready for us to use it. We had about 16 adults that played! We played game after game until we couldn't see anymore!!! It was the highlight of the reunion I'd have to say. Lots of competitiveness going on as well as laughs and giggles as a few of us hit the ground hard! And of course...many short jokes about how Sav was as tall as the bottom of the net! 

But don't worry, I showed you guys all up ;) hahah 

SUCH A BLAST! SERIOUSLY! 

That night we had delicious peach cobbler and gathered around the campfire again. We sang out of the camp song books and stayed up way too late talking and giggling and singing silly songs making fun of each other :) 

The next morning, we had our family pictures in all of our recoonion shirts! 

We took some funny pictures of guys and girls, and got a picture of all 8 siblings and mom and dad! 

Allen makes me giggle.....

 Again...Allen makes me giggle plus Christ and Ev!

Grandpa Anderson and his Coon grandkids!

The Whole Family together!

Sisters :)

  

Thank you Sharla and Justin for such a fun weekend! I loved all of the Delicious food, the fun games, laughs, volleyball, walks and hikes, and all of the memories made!