On Saturday evening we drove to Zalma (a tiny town about 45 minutes away) to my Uncle Bruce and Aunt Tina's house to get together with my mom's side of the family. Last year we decided to have a girl's cookie making party, and this year we decided we'd let the boys come too! It turned in to one giant family get-together. For some background...my mom has two sisters (they are twins). Tina lives in Zalma and her kids are Erika and Jared. Erika has three kiddos and lives in Dallas, and Jared has two kids and lives in Jackson. They were all there! (Except for Jared's wife Kelly, one of my best friends, who is a nurse and had to work.) Then the other sister is Gina. She lives in Bolivar (near Springfield, MO). She has three kids. Ty just married Morgan this summer, Tarah is getting married to James this coming June, and Tori is in college. They were ALL there too! It was so fun to see everyone and we had a blast (which you will soon see in the pictures!)
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| Lots of the girls decorating (or eating as in Brynn's case) cookies and snowmen. |
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No joke...this little lady has a major sweet tooth. As my cousins can tell you, she was trying to eat
ALL the candy! |
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| Kelly and Jared just had baby Paxton this July. Brynn LOVES to see babies! |
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| Erika and I created this masterpiece thanks to Pinterest! |
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Don't let this cute picture fool you...Brynn looks so big sitting at the kid table, but she
CANNOT sit at a kid table and eat. She gets up every two seconds...oh my!
But having lots of fun with two of Erika's kiddos...sweet Ebby Lee and Nixon. |
And then the festivities began! Erika and I thought it would be fun if we had a little family game time...well when we put our heads together it usually ends up in hilarious mass chaos and this was no different. We played a little game that involved panty hose on our grandparents heads, and lots of balloons!
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Explaining the rules...there are two teams, each team has to blow up 20 llittle balloons and stuff them in the
panty hose, and then grandma and grandpa have to put them on and the team has to sing Rudolph to win!
What you can't see in this picture is that behind the couch are Ty, Ryan, and Tab making fun of us! HA!
And Mallory - I totally got this idea from your blog post last year! |
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| Erika put everyone's name in a cup and was announcing the teams... |
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| GRANDMA'S TEAM WON! |
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| I say they both get to win for being such good sports! We had a blast playing! |
Then the boys headed downstairs while the girls had a little pow-wow. My mom said she had an announcement for all the girls in the family. Every other year Beth Moore does this Scripture memory conference. You have to memorize 24 verses in the year and check in with Beth Moore's blog twice a month. If you do it all year, you get free entry into her "Scripture Memory Celebration Conference" which is in Houston, TX next January. We are all going to try to do it and go to the conference together. Everyone was on board and was so excited! This should be such a cool thing to do as a family. And of course, it wouldn't be a normal family get together if crying wasn't involved...thanks Mom!
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| Erika's newest baby, little Bowen, is less than a month old. Of course Brynn wanted to kiss all over him! |
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| These are our Scripture card packets that we work on all year. |
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| Things started going downhill...HA! |
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4 generations of Hency girls!
Look out Beth Moore...this crazy family is coming to see you in ONE YEAR! |
Right after (and during) this picture Brynn started having a little meltdown. You know the kind where your child is tired and therefore anything they want (and don't get) makes them cry and throw a fit? That was the kind...well it was getting late and everyone was leaving anyway, so we quickly made our exit! HA!
We had SUCH a fun afternoon/evening with our family (and we also got to watch Mizzou beat Illinois in the big "Braggin' Rights" game that was on TV)! Woohoo! WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!
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