A Full Weekend…A Reunion and a Wedding

We have a full fun-filled weekend!  This weekend we had the Kelso Family Reunion (Jeff’s Mom’s side) and Chance and Stefanie’s Wedding (My brother’s stepson).  

The Kelso Reunion was held in Oklahoma at the Texoma Christian Camp.  Corene was raised in OK and most of her siblings still live there.  Jeff, Matt, and Cole left early Friday morning to meet Jeff and Matt’s Uncle Bub to play a round of golf at Chickasaw Pointe, one of the top rated golf courses in the nation.  Brooklyn spent the day with me while Sherry spent the day at work.  I have to say, it was quite nice having Brooklyn here.  Her and Hayden played and played and I felt like I really got something accomplished.  You know, fun stuff  like all the laundry done and put away, loaded and unloaded the dishwasher, cleaned the toliets, etc.  :-)  Don, Corene, and Yolanda went early on Friday to do some shopping and get everything ready to go!  Sherry, Brooklyn, Hayden, and I left late Friday afternoon to head up there.  Our car was packed full…all for one night. 

When we got there, we visited and ate sandwiches.  Then, it was off to get settled in our home away from home.  Gotta love  church camp bunk beds!  I can honestly say it worked out great.  We had our own “room”, everything was clean, and we were right there at the facility. 

Hayden loved playing with  his cars on every bed and zooming his cars on the concrete floors.

After getting settled in, visiting,

playing dominoes,

and eating lots of cookies,

 

LuLu, Matt, Sherry, Cole, Brooklyn, Hayden and I decided to go for a late night swim in the pool.  Jeff had already been up for about 30 hours so he went to bed.  Showered and put Hayden to bed around 10:00 PM and then it was time for the Phase 10 battle between the rest of us.  I love that game!  There was lots of trash talking (everyone except me of course) but I WON!!  WAHOO!  I did real good until close to the end and I almost didn’t win!  :-)  I think most of us slept pretty good except Sherry.  She was worried about the outside doors that didn’t shut, the light that kept coming on and off, the fan she didn’t hear, and everything else she could think of.  Ha! 

Saturday morning, we had one yummy breakfast!  The works…bacon, sausage, homemade buttermilk pancakes, hashbrowns, eggs, etc. 

We spent Saturday eating, playing games, and visiting with everyone.  Hayden and I did sneak away for a couple of hours for a nap.   

The camp facility is right on the lake, so Hayden loved looking out the windows, going outside, and venturing down the boat ramp to check out the boats. 

Matt and Sherry wanted their picture taken and were giving Brooklyn a hard time about wanting in their picture. 

  

Love these…

I am pretty sure Hayden talked just about everyone into playing with his tractor before the weekend was over.

Before we leave we try to get everyone to take family photos.  Not always the easiest task!  I think we have about decided we need to do it first thing when you come in next year before we get all hot and sweaty!

Corene (in the pink) and her siblings (missing one). 

Mark, Clayton, and Grayson.

Matt, Sherry, Brooklyn, and Cole.

Us.  How do you like Hayden’s wild hair?  That boy played hard!

Family…

Unfortunately, I didn’t get pictures of everyone!  I am so sad I didn’t get one single picture of LuLu (Yolanda). I am quite sure that is because she spent just about every second in the kitchen cooking and getting things ready for the next meal.  She and Corene did so much work ensuring that the reunion was a success!  It is always fun to go, but we are all so tired when its over! 

I left a little early Saturday afternoon to head to McKinney to hang out with the Barner’s for a bit and get ready to head to Chance and Stefanie’s wedding that was in Irving.  Pam, I went right through Celina.  I had no idea I would do that or I would have called you ahead of time.  I though Celina was just beautiful!  And the high school…wow!  I felt like I drove all over the world by the time I got home last night (or the wee hours of the morning) from the wedding.  I’ll leave you with this picture and finish up that post tomorrow!