wow im a slacker..........

oh the jots of family togetherness. so we didn't get pictures of the beginning of the week , we had our annual condie family reunion the weekend of the 24th. Michaels brother from arkansas and his family came into town to visit and attend the reunion . the only visit like once a year so we were really excited they were here. We went on a huge famil hike to donut falls , it was great exercise, then we came back did some swimming ate some dinner and then got ready to go to the bees game . we had a lot of fun , but maybe a little too much fun, ben got accused of being publically drunk because he was "cheering" very loudly. They even told him to lower his volume. really? at an out door baseball game? Needless to say he didn't lower his volume and little brother michael also decided to chime in . They had some awesome fireworks and the kids behaved very well .




little addi got here ears pierced for her birthday. she was very happy and excited as you see in the first picture and then not very happy at all in the second. she loves them now and feels very pretty!! i recommend doing the piercing thing at like birth, that seems like a good age. 3 not such a good age.





we had a zoo day, the kids all loved the zoo . except jaiden, she was angry that she dropped her snack in the rams cage, and her binkie i believe. poor little jaiden.



tryn bens youngest daughter was born about 3 weeks before addi so we decided to have a combined princess birthday party. we went to incredible pizza ( the grown ups had to be able to play too) ben and shanon gpt the girls cute sashes that said birthday princess in glitter , they also had crowns they ate lots and aunt shannon made a cake for the girls and they loved it .


they opened presents, lots and lots of presents, and luckily everyone was very smart and bought both girls the exact same thing, therefore there was no fighting.
they also got to play games , they loved it . at the end of the night we were very sick of hearing i want to play a game. lucky for us the games they liked to play only cost about 30 cents, we had a lot of money left over and we will have to go back. darn.





it was an awesome week, full of late night talks , laughter , lots of mountain dew, and being late to work often. Family is so wonderful and i am thankful i got a real good one. hopefully it wont be too long till my next post. the girls birthdays are coming up !!
love you all.