Wood Family Reunion

We were lucky to spend the last week of June in Utah visiting family and attending the Wood family reunion. We spent the first couple of days of our trip at Nana's house and got to hang out with my brothers, see some cousins and meet up with my old roomie, Jenna, at BYU. Then we headed over to Gavin's house in West Haven (north of SLC) for the reunion. It was a lot of fun! Some of the activities included: checking out the Thanksgiving Pointe Gardens, touring the open house of the Oquirrh Mountain Temple, spending a day at Lagoon (mostly at the water park), enjoying the West Haven Days parade and breakfast, eating yummy food, talking around the fire pit at night and just enjoying each others company.

The first and following pictures are of our first ride on the carousel at Lagoon. We did not buy Grant a pass since it was free for kids under 3 who only went to the water park and rode a few specified rides, the carousel being one of them. So we spent our day between the water park and carousel. I guess it was good that Grant enjoyed the carousel much better than he did last year.

Here is a picture of the Wood men and little Brooklyn. Glade a Misty waited to have her blessing at the reunion so the family could take part, it was very nice.

All the late nights chatting over the fire pit started to catch up with Ryan so he tried getting some sleep while he could. One morning Tate fell back asleep after I had fed him in bed so I just left him and Ryan to sleep in some more. I came to check in on them about 1 1/2 hours later and they were still cozied up and sleeping, I had to get a picture.

Another morning I came down to get something out of the room and found Ryan like this. Yes, he's using a nursing pad to block out the morning light. I guess you have to grab whatever you can find.

Tate had fun at the reunion being passed around among the family and charming everyone with his big smile. He's quite the social kid and will get all excited and smiley whenever anyone looks at him. It makes him easy to hold.

Grant especially had a fun time this year. He loved playing with all his aunts, uncles and cousins and really loved all the great toys Gavin and Wendy have at their house. He spent a lot of time trying to recruit people to go play with him as he would go up to his uncles and ask "wanna go downstairs and play cars with Granty?". It was hard to resist and they were nice to oblige.

Cheryl helped Grant discover the many uses of the gaming chairs. As seen above she showed him how they could rock all the way back to the ground and up again, and then had to show him again and again...
The week ended too quickly and we were sad to say goodbye. We got back to Ohio Sunday night at 10pm and Ryan started up with school Monday morning. The first week actually went quite smoothly and we are now trying to get back into the swing of normal life.