Well obviously Braylee didn't come on the 12th, 13th, or 14th like I had originally prayed for. But prayers are answered, sometimes, in ways that we don't want. After my last appointment and finding out that Braylee was breach I decided I had missed out on enough family fun and wasn't going to miss the big Smedley family reunion. And boy am I glad that I went and didn't have a brand new baby to take care of. We had so much fun. I just absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE all of my Smedley family. We drove up Thursday night and went to the days of 47 rodeo with Davids brother and sisters. Brantley loved watching the "neighs" and the cows.
The whole gang minus Grandma and Grandpa Smedley and Varci's husband Kevin and Kali's husband Taylor
Brantley loves his aunt Ka Ka.....he pretty much just wanted to sit on her lap all night long.
Some of my cute nieces posing with a real cowgirl!!
After that we headed up to Mountain Green where we got to stay in Davids Grandmas old house that they rented out for the big reunion. The house was huge and fit out group of about 85 people quite comfortably. We slept there for 3 nights. Brantley didn't do so well being in a strange place with so much noise but the second and 3rd nights were so much better thanks to the multiple fans we had going for white noise.
FRIDAY MORNING
Friday morning we woke up to a lot of family that had finally arrived for the big party and after breakfast we all headed over to a bowling alley that was rented out just for the reunion. Brantley wanted to ride the little carousal outside and he loved it but he love bowling even more
Brantley was such a good little helper carrying the ball and pushing it down the lane....I won't lie he did a whole lot better than I did!
He could hardly wait until his next turn
Some of my wonderful family. The cute girl in the purple shirt is named Letti....she just loves Brantley and Brantley loves her. She was so good to take him and play with him during the family reunion.
Our spoiled little man got to ride the carousel when we left too.
After we went bowling we went over to a park ate lunch and then those who wanted to went river rafting. I opted out because my little man didn't sleep well the night before he really needed a nap....(which he never really got because he refused to sleep because of all the extra noise in the house(this was before we got the fans)). David went though and he loved it. We just had a little trouble with the tubes. The family had the option of renting a tube and life jacket from a company but it was $20 and we didn't want to spend that. So we went and got some life jackets from my parents house and David borrowed a tube from a friend. We thought we were all prepared until we went and filled up Daves tube. As we pulled out of the parking lot it popped. We would have been fine but David lent his cousin the other tube he borrowed and we had already missed the deadline for renting a tube so we just had to buy one. Oh well.
David had a few good falls he got a good bruise on his knee and got a rock shoved underneath his little toe
Later that night we had dinner and a family devotional where we got to hear from Scott and Julie again about their mission. (I never get tired of hearing their stories). Then it was off to bed.
SATURDAY
Saturday was filled with just as much fun. Woke up to a delicious french toast casserole. David went and played basket ball. We had family pictures then it was off to a bowery that Grandpa Smedley helped build.
The bowery was right next to a horse field and of course that is right where Brantley wanted to go.
Brantley leading kids over to the horses.
We had a special speaker come talk to us about some of the things Grandpa Smedley had done. He was a great man and I wish I could have met him.
We then got to eat some delicious taco salad.
and popsicles....
Brantley loves popsicles
Later that day after we had taken a nap we went swimming.
Then after went back to the house and had dinner and I got to see one of the best parts of the house....
it is a heart shaped tube that is ginormous
Me and Polly, she is 10 weeks behind me!
We had just a fun time! So much hard work and planning went into this event and I am so grateful to all those that helped put it on. I can hardly wait until the next reunion!!
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