Family Reunion 2007

Mulberry River Mountain Ranch was a great place to go!!! We arrived on Sunday, July 1st, 2007. We hauled everything but the kitchen sink into our rooms and then sat down and awaited the arrival of the rest of the crowd from their cave excursions at War Eagle! After the infamous family meeting, Kyle found out that Daddy and Mommy know what they are talking about after pulling a fresh cup of coffee (big styrofoam cup) off the table onto himself. Luckily the damage was minimal - the hollering, however, was not. It was all better by Monday morning.

View of lodge from the barn - all the windows are the sunroom

View out of lodge from sunroom

Which brings us to... Monday found Kyle wearing a new shirt at breakfast (see pictures below). We couldn't get a picture at the reunion so had to take these after we got home.

I Have a Secret!

And so the family found out we are expecting in January!

A little while later we had another surprise!!! Uncle Kory and Aunt Teresa and brand new cousin Ryan showed up at the reunion! Of course, I didn't get any pictures of Dad and Mom... :) Just Great-Grandma holding the precious little one... The third surprise of the day was Uncle Kent finishing his work week early so he was able to come late Monday night!!!!

Tuesday we went to the Rodeo of the Ozarks in Springdale, AR! It was loud but the horses and cows/bulls/calves and sheep and sheep dogs were SO cool!! There were even Monkeys riding sheep dogs. There was also another surprise at the rodeo!!

Cousins Mark and Pam and their boys met us!!

The boys are sitting behind Uncle Larry and Aunt Karen.

Wednesday we vegged and played badmitton at the ranch! Then we had our bible study after supper and watched fireworks (some went out and the rest of us watched them from the beautiful sunroom at the lodge)! It was one of the best displays we've ever seen!!!

Wednesday dinner in the sunroom

Thursday some folks took off for homes far away - CA, MN and TX. Del, Kari and Kyle went to our first doctor's appointment!! We love our doctor and everything is doing great! A quiet day was had by all, I think! Baby Trevor didn't know what to do with all the kids missing! :)

Friday, the rest of us went home after moving out of our rooms! Del, Kyle and I stopped by Terra Studios on the way home and checked out the Blue Birds of Happiness and the pottery etc. Fun place to stop and see! Grampa Wayne and Gramma Dawn went to Branson for an appointment and then came and spent the night with us before heading out early Saturday morning! I think everyone should have made it home by now and is recuperating! :) We had a GREAT time and look forward to the next one in 3 years!!!