July 05, 2015

Pre-Reunion Fun

The last week in June was our 2nd Barrett Family Reunion (our first was 3 years ago).  It was so much fun to have all of my siblings together at one time.  A few days before the reunion officially started, my older brother Nick and youngest sister Janelle came out.  We had a lot of fun spending time with them.

Ann had so much fun playing with her cousins (most of whom she hasn't seen since our last reunion).  The girls made a restaurant menu for the play kitchen.  It's called "Triple A" because all three girls have a name beginning with A.

Ian wanted to help with the restaurant too!

Ann had fun learning some new games, though she had to learn to adjust to playing "competitive" games.  This game unfortunately ended in her melting down (it's hard when you're four and you're playing a game with Grandma and your 9 year old cousin).

All of the cousins loved Ian and had a great time trying to entertain him.

Nick took my camera and took some pictures

Ian's still getting this walking thing figured out.  He can pull up and cruise around just fine, but is still pretty wobbly otherwise.

But he's super cute though!

We went up to IBM park one afternoon.  Aunt Janelle helped Ann with the digger toy

I consider these Ian's 11 month pictures.

He's finally learned to be okay with the grass!

Watching his big sister and cousins play

He even crawled around in the grass!

And discovered the joys of eating grass

It was fun talking pictures of the photographer :)

Super cute cousins

Watching our nephew Ben swinging really high

I had to document Melanie lying under Ben as he swung, taking pictures.  I'm curious to see how her pictures look.

I think they were building a nest in the space between the tree branches.

Ian didn't take a good afternoon nap that day, so he dozed off in my dad's arms.

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