How To Plan A Family Reunion

We just had an AWESOME family reunion.

Here's the matriarch of the family. The one who made all of us happen. :)

WE LOVE YOU GRANDMA!

I had to laugh as going through my pictures there was alot of eating and visiting giong on.
A big thanks to Angie for coming up with most of the fun activities and everyone who helped to run them (which was just about everyone). It really was fun. Here are some highlights.
This is me giong down the adult sized slip and slide. SO MUCH FUN!

The kids had a wiggle car tournament that ended with a mother-child team race which was hillarious. By the time we left we had really gotten good at those wiggle cars.

So here are some of the how-tos that were used.

The location was easy as we have family with large yards but a park would have worked as well.

Meals were assigned to specific families who made assignments.

Each activity was spearheaded by a couple of people who ran it. Activities were simple, inexpensive and fun, they included: Paint ball target practice with blow guns, campfire songs and stories with s'mores, wiggle car races, a teasure hunt for the kids, Wii bowling tournament, slip 'n slide, bounce house, movie night and lots of visiting and eating.

Someone also put together a recipe book with family pictures for everyone to have to take home with them. It included addresses, pictures a recipe from each family (the two recipes I've tried so far were awesome). There was also a family tree poster with everyone's pictures on it. Also, there was a slide show that had old family pictures that went back to Grandma's parents and had recent photos of all the family.

I hope this will inspire someone else to put together a family reunion. I was so glad my Sister and Cousin put this all together. Here's to more next year.