Monday, August 10, 2009

The 3rd Annual Granados Family Reunion

Our reunion unofficially began on Friday with the arrival of Camie and Tony with the boys. Rique was happy to spend the night with them at his Tia Ariela's home.

They all came over on Saturday and played in our little pool, then we went to Grandma and Grandpa Granados' house for Carne Asada.

Sunday, we got together again to celebrate Isaac's 24th birthday. Seth and his Bonita before church on Sunday.
All 15 cousins in order from tallest to smallest.
Aimee, Ethan, Alyssa, Jacob, Nicole,
Elaine, Nathan, Elias, Joshua, Enrique,
Jayden, Adam, Nefi Jr., Isabella, and Aurora.

Monday we rested.

On Tuesday we tried to make use of Thanksgiving point's $2 Tuesdays. All the kids, minus Aurora went to the Dinosaur Museum. We heard it was very crowded, but they had a fun time. Afterwards, they all came back to our place and dressed up to play out Nacho Libre.
(I don't know why.)
Nathan as Nacho and Elias as El Skeleto.
Costumes are from Enrique's 2nd Halloween when he was Super man.


Rora & Bella

Seth and Enrique took Tony, Nefi, and Zoram's families on a hike in American Fork Canyon to see some waterfalls. Enrique is happy.



They all had a good time.


Seth on the falls.




Michelle, Nefi, Zoram, Carol, Ethan, Aime, Jacob, Elaine, Nicole, Alyssa, Camie, Nathan, Adam, Joshua, Nefito, Jayden, Rique, Seth and Elias. (Tony took the picture.)
That evening our reunion officially began with a session at the temple and dinner with all the adults at Olive Garden.
Special thanks to Nadia for watching the kids while we were in the temple and a thousand thanks to Alyssa for managing everyone while we were at dinner. I loved coming home and finding the house neater, not messier than when we left it.


Thursday morning all the ladies went out to Kneaders for breakfast, (I want more french toast)and relaxed at Ariela's house with a craft and manicure or pedicure.
In the afternoon we played team sports at the park.Rique loved using his water gun before, during and after capture the flag.



Leap Frog
I don't remember who won best team, but I think this team looked the happiest, and that's what matters the most, isn't it?

Nefi, Mario, Ethan, Aimee, Nathan and Enrique
Ariela and I sat and enjoyed the festivities.

Seth and Aurora
Thursday evening we went back to our place and roasted hot dogs and sang happy birthday to Grandpa.
Friday we all went to Seven Peaks and had a great time playing in the water.
That night all the men went and saw GI Joe.
Saturday morning we ate waffles and got the backyard ready for Grandpa Granados' surprise 60th birthday luau.

He was happily surprised.

Grandma and Grandpa' neighbor brought balloons to entertain the kids.
Rique loved his sword, complete with belt holder.

Balloon swords are very safe, too bad they pop.

All the kids.


Aurora got a balloon animal too.


The adults over 45 got to hit the pinata.


The kids got all the candy.

This year we added one more to the reunion.
Now we are 32.
September we'll be 33 and October we'll be 34.
I wonder if there will be more before next year's reunion.
The evening and reunion ended with dancing.

The reunion unofficially continued on Sunday as we ate the leftovers and discussed plans for next year's reunion.

























2 comments:

OUR CHAOTIC CLAN said...

Sounds like you had a blast! Great pictures!

marisa said...

Sounds like the reunion started way before it officially started! What fun memories! And I love the Nancho Libre reenactment photos!