Kent's High School Reunion

This weekend was Kent's 10 year high school reunion. It was a really nice event. Saturday afternoon they all met at the park with the kids to play, visit, and eat otter pops. It was a nice afternoon. That evening we had dinner in the school cafeteria and they did some pictures following. All and all it was nice. A few things I found interesting:

~We had a prayer before dinner (that would never happen at my HS reunion) which was nice to see that these people whether religious or not were close enough to understand that there would be those who appreciated this.

~They provided old HS jerseys, letterman jackets, drill team costumes, prom dresses etc. to dress up in for pictures. A little silly, but definately could have been fun to do with a bunch of your silly girlfriends.

~Some of the people I met were very different from each other but they all seemed to enjoy one anothers company. It seems like in a smaller HS popular is not as big a barrier as in other places.

Another interesting thing about preparing for this evening was that all family members were going to be out of town that evening. Grandma and Grandpa were headed North to Kent's oldest sisters house, his brother and sister-in-law were headed up here to see her grandpa in the hospital, Kent's aunt and uncle were headed South for a baptism, of his two young male cousins one was headed north and the other was headed west out of town and I couldn't get a hold of my cousin to see if he and his wife could watch Braxton. We were quite stuck. Grandma and Aunt Heather directed Kent to a babysitter who ended up sick on Friday and called Heather to let us know. Luckily Brad had been promised the opportunity to work so they ended up waiting to go north until Sunday and so they watched him. We are so grateful they did. I think he really enjoyed being around cousins.

We had a great weekend and really enjoyed church on Sunday as well as dinner with grandma and grandpa (who came back into town Saturday night) and dessert with Kent's Uncle who was also back by Sunday. The more time I spend with family, in-laws as well as my own, the more I realize what a blessing it truly is to have family.

Apparently Braxton was protesting sleep right up until he fell asleep

I had to take these pictures of the mountains because they are SO green.

I know to you Oregonians this is barely green...

... but this is not normal for Utah mountains in the month of August