Sunday, August 23, 2009

Annual Monson Family Reunion 2009

My mom's side of the family has a Monson family reunion every year.  It's really fun to see everyone's growing families and to be able to visit.  It was mostly at my cousin Eldon and wife Stephenie's house (thanx guys!).  We camped in their backyard.  My mom and our family were in charge this year (each of her siblings takes a turn every 5-6 years).  This is a group shot of most of the people that were able to make it.  We're on the right in the red shirts.  We had a wonderful time.  I took like 300 pictures of the weekend. :)  I really enjoyed all of the events that we had, but especially hearing about my Uncle Wayne and Aunt Julie's mission and the testimony meeting we had.

Cousin K, Little Miss R and Cousin L, eating yummy snow cones made by Auntie Jolie and Uncle Dan

Little Man E and Cousin T

Me and my Kiddos--everyone made t-shirts for their individual families.  I painted ours free-hand.

Mark and his childhood buddy, and brother in law Grant.
 
Little Man E and cousin S

Grandpa and Baby K

Little Man E and Little Miss R

Baby K got her first taste of a lolly-pop from her Great Aunt Glennis 
Auntie Angela and sleepy Baby K.  After the reunion, Angela, Grant and their 5 girls came to visit us down at our house which was a two hour drive from the reunion.  We had such a wonderful visit with them.  I also took their family pictures while they were here. 
  
Here is a picture of the front of our shirts, that I painted :) A star and a "C" for "Chandler"

This is a picture of the back of our shirts that I painted.  The numbers are for the kids ages (even though Baby K isn't quite 1 yet), and Mark and my number's are the left over numbers, I wanted to have 1-5 because that is how many people are in our family. :)
 
I LOVE this picture of Little Man E.

 Little Miss R LOVES to Dance.
 
The theme of the reunion was preparedness, and I was asked and gave a presentation on Health and Wellness Preparedness.
Baby K and her Uncle Dan.
Me and my cousin Monica.  We're told all the time that we look alike.
My Grandma, Aunt Luetta (holding Baby K) and Aunt Alaine
 
sis-in-law Jolie and brother Dan looking at one of my scrapbooks
Nieces/Cousins K and R
 
I love this picture of 3 of my Uncles: Edward, Scott and Stuart
  
Niece K, My mom and sis Angela
Little Miss R, niece T and Little Man E watching a train

7 comments:

Jenny said...

Liz, you're so creative. The t-shirts turned out great!

Candice said...

My goodness, your family is big! That is amazing that so many people can get together, what a great time! Lovely pics as always :)

Steph said...

You have a big honkin' family! (wink) Great to see you and thanks for sharing your pics.

Angela said...

I am so glad that you took all these fabulous pictures, since I couldn't. I only took like 10-- much less then normal.

Suzanne said...

great pictures! i am amazed at how many people were there! looks like it was a lot of fun!

Megan and Jeremy said...

I love family reunions! That is so great that you guys get to go every year. Love the shirts too by the way and hope your fitness lesson went great!!!

Melissa and Bryan said...

I'm so glad you took pictures because I didn't take any this time! I wish we would have had more time to visit! It seemed to go so fast and it didn't help that so many people got sick!

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