Day Two- Tuesday

We woke up to a winter wonderland.  It was beautiful outside and since most of us had nowhere to go, it was perfect.  However, Gary had to make a trip down to Ogden to pick up Karla to come up and make a visit.  She had driven to Ogden on Monday and spent the night in a hotel.  She didn't want to drive in the canyon so Gary was our driver.  He kept track of the storm and was able to head out after the snow plows and made it down and back during a break in the storm.

Meanwhile, our crafting projects were just beginning......Tosha brought wreaths for them to decorate.

Always fun to have your cousins watch you play a game....a classic moment that I will treasure.

With the new snow, the kids also headed out to play in the morning as soon as their parents would let them.

The shedding wasn't quite as good with the new layers of wet powered snow, but they worked on making another trail and enjoyed some snowball fights as well.

We then took part in our next activity-- Family Lego Building. All of our grandkids enjoy lego building and many of them LOVE it, so I thought it might be fun to do as families.  Maybe start a new reunion tradition--we will see.

I missed getting many pictures of the completed legos.  Jessica and Elessia's family did a train; Scott and Chantel's family had an Indiana Jones airplane and jeep; and Tosha and Austen's family did a pirate ship and island.

Posing for pictures was not their first priority.  They wanted to play with their new legos.

Karla headed back to Ogden in the early afternoon with a goal to get home before nightfall.  We got a group picture before she left (without us and Scarlett who was taking a nap.) Gary was the driver once again.  The timing was almost perfect except he got caught in the snow storm that hit about 15 minutes before he got back to the house.  Her visit was closely timed with the break between the storms.  We were glad to have her share some time with us and she loved our cute grandchildren, too.

We then made the important chocolate cookie dough which we baked later in the day for snack.

After lunch, it was back outside for more snow play and this time, most of the adults went outside as well (not Gary and I--we accepted our role as the elders and sat this one out."

While we were preparing our Thanksgiving dinner, the kids started working on another craft--bracelets. We had everything from Fruit Loops to string to more fancy Christmas beads. 

Tosha and Scarlett even made matching ones that they both wore.  Here are the ones that Scarlett made.

Tuesday evening we had our "Thanksgiving" dinner together.  We had Honey Baked Ham and Smoked Turkey breast for our meats and many of the other traditional foods with cookies and pies for dessert.

Then Tuesday night, we tried for the first time--Grandkids "Show and Tell"  Participation was optional and a couple of the kids opted out but it was still fun to see them share their talents.

Ezri and Ava each sang a song.
(My picture of Ava didn't turn out.)

Cooper drew a picture.

James shared about taking care of a watermelon
seed he planted and was able to eat a watermelon
from the plant.

Zander danced.

Niki also drew but he copied the picture
on Chantel's shirt.  He did a good job.

We then played Charades and more rounds of Blank Slate.

Bedtime involved me reading to them. I had remembered reading Aesops Fables to my kids when they were little, so I ordered a book to read at the Family Reunion.  These were not the children friendly ones I had read to my kids.  They were closer to the actual fables and some of them are quite harsh.  The older kids remembered reading some of them at school so that made it fun.  We learned some new vocabulary words and enjoyed the illustrations as I tried to soften some of the morals.  Oh, well.  Here are some pictures the kids took during the Tuesday night book reading...

My necklace made by Ezri

Magical moments that fly by so quickly.  I loved reading to my kids and I also love reading to my grandkids.  I hope that someday they will be reading to their own children and remembering these moments as well.

And it is a wrap for Tuesday.