#7
Everyone being happy together! Sure we had moments of frustration or stress, but overall it was just a really happy time of being ALL together!
Kate was sick for most of the reunion, but I was really happy that Whitney had lots of quality bonding time with her cousins!
Lydia and Whitney.
Our awesome family picture
Sparklers!
The matching shirt girls (Natalie and Whit) with their glow stuff on
Owen and Jenna getting to know each other
The kids all enjoying the SUPER cute treasure hunt Katrina made as a little birthday party for Lydia, whose second birthday was on Sunday!
#6
Ryder's Blessing.
How cool it has been to have the last couple of baby blessings in our family be attended by EVERYONE! That is rare, and very cool that it could work out that way for Owen and Jenna and now Ryder. I love to see the priesthood at work in our eternal family. :)
Here are all the grandkids! Owen, Whitney, Jenna, Natalie, Katelyn, Caleb, Lydia and Ryder.
The grandsons! Caleb making a funny face, Owen, and baby Ryder!
Sisters!
Finally got a picture of Katelyn and Natalie! They spent all of Sacrament Meeting making an adorable card for Katrina and Ryder.
The beautiful Craven family!
#5
So maybe this is silly, but one of my favorite parts was playing Wacky 6 on Saturday night! Lots of people played this game and other games on different afternoons/nights during the reunion, but I was never able to join in because I was always busy with something else. So finally I had a chance to play and it was SO fun. This picture shows Mom, Donny, me, Christine, and Derek in the garage playing singles, and before that Allison, Kent, and Jenae had been with us and we played doubles. I was on teams with Derek and then Christine- they are both super good so that was fun. :) It was good times and I love games!
#4
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So I made up a couple of games for the Reunion, and they were SO fun to play, I thought so anyway! Sadly I didn't get a single picture of either one! First there was Hansen Family Trivia- I sent everyone a questionnaire/survey thing to fill out with questions like "Favorite color" "If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go?" "Favorite animal" and "Time period in history you would most like to time-travel to" and some of the answers were just hilarious. Even the kids filled them out, it was so cute. It was also cool because I tried to find similarities among us and make up questions about those, like "Which two people said their favorite sport to watch is figure skating?" and it was my Mom and Christine! (FYI the most common fav sport to watch in our family is football!) The most common favorite color in our family is blue, and the most common favorite fruit is grapes, obviously :). Oh and Donny and I have the same favorite smell (fresh mountain air!). It was fun to read everyone's answers, and I printed out all the answer sheets for everyone to read after. So we had 3 teams and if a team didn't guess correctly another team could try. I don't even remember who won but it was fun.:)
Then I asked everyone to bring a few favorite family pictures and we played a version of Awkward Family Photos. We would randomly draw out a picture and a question for everyone to answer about that picture, then we would read our answers and laugh. :) So the questions were "write a speech bubble for someone in the picture" "write a caption for this picture" "what was the person NOT thinking in this picture" and I can't remember the others. We should have also done "write an advertisement logo for this picture"! Probably the best part was finding out that in one of our classic family pictures Katrina was injuring Derek so his shout was one of pain, not of crazy fun! Half of us had NO IDEA that was going on and we had been looking at this picture for years! Anyway it was fun to look at old pictures and see baby ones of the in-laws.
Top 3 best parts of the Reunion To Be Continued...
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