Macdonald family reunion - Part 1

Grandma Phyllis held a family reunion here in Utah this last week... so my sister Lindsay drove to Utah from California with her 3 kids Sunday and we got to play with them all week. Monday night we celebrated my Step-Dads birthday and ate yummy homemade Costa Vida salads. Everyone was there (except David, he's on a mission for a few more days... Like 8) I Love when my family gets together, We have a such a good time and always laugh so much! But Happy Birthday Dar!!! 

Tuesday we got up early and went to Seven Peaks for the day (7 hours) Lindsay's babes have never been to a waterpark so this was super exciting for them. The Grandparents were helpful and came to watch the babies for a little so we could have fun on the slides.  You can't bring food into the park so we made sandwiches and went to our cars for lunch. The weather was 94+ degrees outside. What a hot car picnic! When we were about to leave Jason couldn't find his keys anywhere so an hour later we had checked the lost and found multiple times and went to the car and finally Jason found the keys in the car that he had forgot to lock!!! Scary. He was a little anxious to get into seven peaks and play with us. We learned our lesson.

Rylie makes the silliest faces, so Dad had to copy.

Later that night when Rylie and Emmitt went down to sleep I got together with my two older sisters and Sienna & Josie and we went to Sub Zero for Ice Cream!!

They loved watching the ice cream be made

Wednesday we woke up early and went to my Dad & Delanie (step-mom) in Spanish Fork for breakfast. They made us waffles with cinnamon syrup and whip cream, scramble eggs from their chickens, hash browns and melon, Delicious!! My dad has chickens so after breakfast we went to go see the baby chicks. Rylie tried to rip their heads off literally. We didn't let her touch them after the couple attempts of her 'petting' them. 

Cousins

Grandpa teaching them how to hold the chicks

Sienna & Jojo

1 year and 2 days apart

Wednesday night was the first night that the family reunion had begun. We got together at my Aunt Lynn's church and had a Hawaiian themed night and dinner. We were greeted with Lei's and flowers for our hair. We ate Hawaiian haystacks for dinner and had cute sandal, sand dollar cookies and shave ice for dessert. We learned to hula and sing some Hawaiian songs. I don't know how authentic it really was especially since Jase couldn't be there but, we made it our own and had so much fun! Aloha! 

Mariah & I

Mariah, Rylie, Jon, and me

The parents

Oversized flower decoration >> I had to

Hula

Lindsay & Rylie

 To be continued...