Isaacson Family Reunion!

My mom and dad were in charge of the Isaacson Family Reunion this year! So you can imagine that it was AWESOME! My mom and my sisters did an awesome job! It was so much fun and everyone had a good time. They put so much work into everything and it definitely showed. I think we had 108 out of 119 people show up. Which is as awesome turnout.
We had the reunion at the PERA. It is such a fun area for the kids to run around and get into to trouble. Except for the terrible wind everything went great.
My mom divided everyone into teams at the start of the reunion so throughout the whole reunion you played games against other teams to earn points. Most of the men played a lot of horseshoes, I never made it that far away from the food. And the kids enjoyed tug of war, board games, ping pong, and whatever they could find. When they weren't playing competition games they were catching lizards and exploring. It was so fun to see them all playing. That is mostly what I did, watched the kids and tried to help out as much as possible. One of the games that they played that I wish I had some pictures of was Sock wrestling. Two players around the same size put socks on and then they wrestled and tried to get the other persons socks off. It was very entertaining!
There were always yummy cookies and snacks to veg out on and there was plenty of that going on. And my mom made some fantastic meals. Which is definitely an art to feed that many people and have know one complain about the food! Thanks mom!
In the evenings we had little talent shows. It was so fun to hear and see peoples talents. One night they had Austin dress up as Hannah Montana and all the kids danced. The kids had a blast!
Most of these pictures were taken by my little friend Raymond!







On Friday night we rented the pool. It was so fun. The adults played keep away and the rest of us just tried to stay out of the way! I only got a couple pictures of the swimming because I was in the pool and they were of the 2 little ones that didn't enjoy the swimming as much as the rest!


On Saturday we took family pictures and then we had the main event! Notice the Raymond and Lorraine children are wearing referee shirts. Such a funny idea mom! I can't wait to see the HUGE group picture!





So following the pictures my mom and dad put together a scavenger hunt for all the teams to do. Note I was on the Red team! THE WINNING TEAM! (not because we finished first but because we managed to do a good deed for another team along the way) My dad came up with some places and people for us to find and take pictures of. It was so fun and we learned so much along the way. I wish I had gotten a copy of all the questions. They included question like, where Aunt Sharon was baptized (the little rezi)where Uncle Kenny was born (the MVD used to be a hospital) where the Isaacson homestead is, someone named after Grandma's dad ( Caleb Parley) and there were quite a few more I just have a bad memory. It was fun to go to the cemetery and learn about some of the people there that are related.
So they gave us the list and we all jumped in cars and headed into town to find all the answers. I am sure it was very entertaining for people that had no clue what we were doing. The town got invaded by people in red shirts snapping pictures of random things. At one point we stopped at circle K and invaded the store. It was quite funny. Here are a few pictures that my team took. Thanks Joe for driving us! Our team was awesome.







After the scavenger we ate some more then Mickey put together the coolest slide show of past reunions and of Grandma and Grandpa that brought most of us to tears. It was so cool and she did an amazing job. All those late nights sure paid off! Then the night ended with some awesome fireworks, thanks to Joe.
This reunion was a huge success and I am sure we all learned so much about our heritage. And what a great heritage that is! Thanks mom, dad, Rachel, and Mickey!
Here are few more pictures of the family from our weekend at home. It was so fun to see my Arkansas kids and see how grown up they are. I have the best and cutest nieces and nephews.




I hope I remembered to post everything that I wanted to about the reunion. That will teach me to put it off so long. I can't wait until the next reunion! It was so fun seeing all the family. And this year 3 of us were pregnant so next reunion there will be even more!