2011 Waldram Reunion

On our drive up to the reunion we met up with Jared and Melissa's family and stopped in Las Vegas and ate lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe. After that we went to St. George and went swimming at our hotel. For dinner we went to the Cracker Barrel, the food was good and there was a ton of it! We put the kids to bed and played some games. The next day we drove up to Salt Lake City. Jared and Jeremy took the kids to Temple Square while Melissa and I shopped. After Kamryn got soaking wet in the fountain we put some dry clothes on and ate dinner at the Olive Garden. After the kids were asleep we played games in the hallway of the hotel. It was a little awkward but no one kicked us out. The next morning we took the kids down to the pool for a little while before eating a delicious breakfast and then headed up to Garden City. This year for our reunion we went to a house near Bear Lake in Garden City, Utah. We rented a 9 bedroom, 3-story, 9,000 square foot house. It was great! Everyone had a place to sleep! There was a huge kitchen, two huge family rooms, one of them had a ping pong table in it, an indoor playground with an indoor buried trampoline, indoor swing set, slide, and play house, indoor basketball court and indoor putting green. They also had a home theater room with stadium seating and a pool table. The house even had spiral slides by the stairs for the kids, and a kids perch above the slide by the kitchen. We got to the house on Saturday, June 11. It was Carson's birthday so they had a party with a pinata and brownies and presents. The kids played all day! Then on Sunday some people went to church and later in the afternoon we had family time. There was a lesson, song, and activity. We had a relay in the play area with hopping, putting, toe touches on the trampoline, sliding, and making layups and baskets on the basketball court. Monday was another play day. A group of us played the XBox 360 Kinect dance game. It was so much fun! Kamryn even did some dancing as long as she knew I wasn't looking. Jason and Jeremy even danced some, but Skyler was the best male dancer there! After lunch we played a family bingo game with jelly beans and candy as prizes. Everyone got a prize! Later we celebrated all of the June birthdays. Damon had just turned one so he got his special cake and presents too! That night Jeremy finally got brave enough to climb up the slide to try and scare the people in the kitchen. Jason was trying to push him back down though, but Jeremy finally won! The next morning we took a family picture with Grandma Riedlinger before heading out to Pocatello.