Stanley and Vida Petersen Reunion

Here are a few highlights from the family reunion.

I am very proud that I can now name all Glen's (John's dad) siblings. In this picture it goes: Glen, Audrey, Jean, Karla, Lareen, Mary Kate. Lester his brother is missing and Beth and Gayle have passed away.


We had fun pretending to run a pioneer day care.

One of the kids' favorite pass times was rolling down the mountain over and over again. They had fun climbing the mountain too until Sydney got tangled up in barbed wire and sliced her skin open in a couple of places. She probably should have had stitches but fortunately Brandon is a CNA and took care of everything. Her wounds are all closed up now. I'm so glad that he and his family came. It was fun to see them.


The wildlife was a big distraction for Bryton. During the baseball game he'd look for mice in the outfield rather than watching for a fly ball. He said he counted about 24 of them. Of course, a place where there are so many mice is going to attract snakes and finding the snake above was 100 times better than the mice. In fact he liked the snake so much that when the airplane came to drop candy down to us he almost couldn't be bothered with it. I on the other hand thought that this was the highlight of the trip. Maybe because I am old and I realize that I'm probably never going to see something like that again in my life time. Laureen was able to get a crop duster to come do this for us. She's been working at an airport for the last 30 years and has connections. About 1000 times better than a pinata if you ask me. She passed out tiny bags to all of the kids to collect the candy but there was so much to collect that they were stuffing their pockets and anything else they could think of with it.
If you look really closely at this picture you can see the candy falling out of the airplane.



After all was said and done though, I think the kids' favorite part was playing with their cousins. Alexa and Whitney bonded as they roasted s'mores and argued about how to pronounce the word "marshmallow". Alexa insisted it was okay to shorten it to just "mallow" to which Whitney strongly objected.

Notice the s'more remains smeared across their faces. :)
It was a really fun trip despite the short stay and long drive. To top it all off, Brooklyn and Whitney had a ball riding home in the car top carrier and it made for a peaceful drive for the rest of us.


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