Good Times Were Had By All

I mentioned earlier that we went to Utah on vacation a couple of weeks ago and I am finally getting around to posting some of the marker free highlights. We started out with a family reunion for all of John's siblings. In my family when the siblings and their families get together it amounts to 18 people. In John's family it amounts to 57. We stayed at this mansion in Provo that actually fit all of us and we even managed to get a family picture with every single person including all 34 grand kids. No small feat. This place was pretty sweet. It had its own movie theater and swimming pool. EZ had a blast.

After the reunion, just the Brown siblings and dad went to a cabin to hang out. It was the first time in the history of the Brown kids that all the siblings were together without any significant others. When Debbie, the oldest, came home to meet Lexi, the youngest, for the first time her fiancee was with her. Crazy. While they were away the kids and I got to see my sisters who are out at BYU. We decided to take EZ bowling on campus. He loves playing it on the Wii so we figure he would love it even more for real. The first game went really well. They have these ramps, which I have never seen before for little kids and EZ did great.

He had so much fun that I decided to let him play again. While the second time around he decided he didn't like the ramp. He didn't want to be like everyone else though and actually throw the ball. Oh no he wanted to kick it. He pitched such a fit that we finally gave in and allowed him to kick the ball which meant it took 5 minutes for the ball to make its way down the lane. Oh two year olds.

After the time apart with our siblings we got back together as a family at John's dad's house and watched a lot of the Olympics. Here is a picture of Netta hanging out with dad on the couch. In case you were worried, the girl gets plenty to eat.

The trip was so much fun that by the time we got home we needed another vacation to help recoup from this one. I went upstairs to do some stuff only to come downstairs and find the rest of my family passed out in the living room at 5pm.

Here is a close up of Netta and John asleep. Yes I know it's another picture of her chub, but I just can't help myself. She is so dang cute.