Texas Trip: Keys Reunion

Annual Keys Reunion

Jax and Jordyn keep asking when we where going to get to Texas. When we were in Pittsburg they asked again. Aaron and I keep telling them that this is Texas, just like Nana and Papa's house is Texas. They seemed satisfied with that answer then asked. "When are we going to get to the real Texas?" Aaron just looked at me and made a face like, don't say anything. Haha!

Well, after we got to the "Real Texas" it did not disappoint! The second we got there, there where cousins everywhere and they hit the ground running. Papa came in and the first thing they did was take the kids fishing/swimming out at the Skinners. I stayed with Ashlyn but they had a ball.

Day 1: Keyan and Kelli's Reception

17 June 2016

The first full day we relaxed and the boys started playing like boys, wrestling match round one. Tyce was a good match up for Jax. Someone finally bigger and could take Jax. Jax then recruited the other boys to help.

Later that night we had Keyan and Kelli's Reception at the new church building. 

When JC Keys (the original Papa, Great Grandpa) was on his way out Ashlyn and I where saying goodbye and Ashlyn gave Papa a kiss. I think he was throwing his head back to entertain Ashlyn to show what a great kiss it was and lost balance. First he stepped back then overcorrected and fell forward taking us with him. Thank goodness Kevin was seated just behind us and was able to break my fall a bit and more importantly catch Papa. That was scary but we all got up just fine. That was a powerful kiss!

Back to the party and boy was it a party! So fun to dance and watch everyone else dance. The kids where the most fun to watch, although Aaron and Cary Shane's dance off was great!

Oh did this girl have fun dancing!

 Man did these kids dance. I told some I was standing with how fun it was to just pick one kid out of the crowd and try to mimic them...too much fun!

Day 2:WAV (Wellington Aquatic Center)

18 June 2016

The kids where excited to go swimming but we where really disappointed to find out the silly rules, like no arm floaties and that you couldn't sit on the side of the pool. But after we got over our disappointment we had a blast and it ended up being a good thing for us. Jax and Jordyn really learned a lot more toward swimming on there own. Not there yet but they are doing so much better. It was so fun to see them get so excited about it, and we where so happy for them.

 Ashlyn discovered how much she loves the water! She keep saying "EEEE" and lunging toward you in the pool. Which translates to "3!"

 Some of the crew!

 Brek playing with Jordyn

 Our new little swimmer! Well, almost!

 Ashlyn and Papa

Later that night Nana & Papa made a steak dinner. Then all the Tipa cousins came over while Papa did s'mores and Nana did home made Butterfinger Ice-cream!

 I think Ashlyn liked the Ice-cream!

Day 3: Sunday, Day of Rest

19 June 2016

I think yesterday had these two pooped! Okay me too, I took a good nap!

 Ashlyn loved Annie, she chased that dog everywhere!

 Jax and the boys! I'm told Jax and Jordyn are the only ones who will touch the toads. Although the first night Jordyn runs in crying cause the toad peed on her! But when Jax is in town it's toad time! They had a whole cooler full of as many has they could find and make Jax catch.

 This is this them yelling "Hey! Go find your friends so we can sell them!"

 Bruce took a liking to Ashlyn.

Day 4: Elks and Games

20 June 2016

Savanna caught these with her go-pro camera, love it!

 So cute I love this picture!

Daddy and Jax

 As you can probably guess this didn't land so well... Haha poor guy! He was a good sport about it though.

 The older cousins clogging up the slide.

 Jordyn was so happy about these pink goggles!

 Jax and the beginning of the silly faces.

Too much playing wore this little one out. She even fell asleep on me which she never does.

 We tried to stay as long as our kids wanted to but we finally decided we had better go at around 2pm. We got there just after 10 and still didn't want to leave.

 The ones that lasted! Our water bugs!

 Kenney surprised us with a horned toad he found. That is a Texas Toad.

 The games that night where so much fun! "Drip, Drip, Splash" and form of Duck, Duck, Goose. Let's just say this year was more successful. Last year they tried to play normal duck,duck, goose for fun one day and Jax ended up crying cause he was so confused and was doing it wrong. They loved it!

 This was so much more fun than I thought it would be, and tiring! I only played for about 5 mins and I was breathing hard.

 It was really funny to watch too

After this one we settled down for skits, which I wished I had filmed them all. But here is ours

Well, if you do not already know....SURPRISE!!! Tossey #4 is on the way! Jan 25th!

I was really disappointed that we didn't do the skits earlier because I was so tired of pretending I felt fine when all I wanted to do was throw up. Another reason why the trip was not fun...throwing up all along the way didn't make it very smooth. Aaron and I thought for sure everyone knew already with me taking naps and eating toast randomly.

After skits we set the kids down for a movie night to watch "Zootopia" and the adults got to play games. It was so fun! Thank you Shayla and Brock for putting together another great reunion! We had a blast!