Friday morning we packed up the van and drove out to the Tri-cities in Washington(~4 hour drive, and luckily it's on the way home to Utah) for our family reunion on my mom's side. We played games, ate, the kids did crafts, swam in the pool, visited Granny and Grandpa Grazzini's grave site, and got to see Fred and Robin's new place(they moved to the Tri-cities from Colorado that very weekend! Perfect timing!).
Bocce ball
Elisabeth loved playing with my uncle Mark:
We stayed in a hotel Friday night which was fun, though we weren't sure how the night time thing was going to go with all 5 of us in the same room. The hotel provided us with a portable crib that Annabelle slept in. She went to bed before the rest of us so while I was putting her to bed Scott took the kids out to play with their cousins. Shortly after they got back we got ready for bed too. There were 2 queen beds and Elisabeth and Charles shared one and Scott and I had the other. The kids did pretty good and it was funny because the first 5 minutes or so after we all got in bed, Elisabeth would ask every 30 seconds, "Daddy, are you asleep yet?" To which he'd always reply, "No, I'm not." I did have to get up several times to fix Annabelle whose foot or arm would get caught in the metal bars on the crib or I'd need to console her after she would hit her head on the same bars(why don't they have bumpers?!). I finally got smart and made my own little crib bumper for her out of bath towels weaved in between bars and after that she didn't wake up again until morning. 
We took off Saturday afternoon and finished our drive to Utah. Unfortunately, we left our cell phone chargers at this hotel(and we just figured that out today, 4 days later...we knew they were lost we just had no idea where) so if anyone has tried to call and you haven't heard from us in days, that's the reason why...my phone is completely dead and the only time I can use it is if I run out to my van, turn it on and plug it in, which is what I had to do when I called the hotel to figure things out. They are fed ex-ing them to us today so we should have them up and running soon enough. I'm now all caught up with posts from our vacation! Wahoo!
We took off Saturday afternoon and finished our drive to Utah. Unfortunately, we left our cell phone chargers at this hotel(and we just figured that out today, 4 days later...we knew they were lost we just had no idea where) so if anyone has tried to call and you haven't heard from us in days, that's the reason why...my phone is completely dead and the only time I can use it is if I run out to my van, turn it on and plug it in, which is what I had to do when I called the hotel to figure things out. They are fed ex-ing them to us today so we should have them up and running soon enough. I'm now all caught up with posts from our vacation! Wahoo!