Christensen Cousin Reunion

 Last week we had four of the six Christensen kids here and their families.

And all nine of the grandkids.

It was a fun week.

Here's some pictures from last week, in no particular order.

First, here's our family on the 4th of July.

The kids love doing Sparklers.

Avery has recently developed this cheesy smile.

 The kids loved watching fireworks.

Avery sat on my lap a lot of the time and spent the rest inside with Halle just like last year.

Devin was just as excited to hold Eli as he was when we were in Vegas.

Devin really wanted a boys picture.

This picture was taken before Brandon got there.

Eli should always be in just a diaper.

His fat rolls are too cute not to show off!

I was so hard to try to get a good picture of Eli and Austin together.

Eli just wanted to grab Austin or roll away.

We spent a lot of time in Michelle and Justin's backyard just hanging out while the kids played.

I love these two pictures that I took of Austin.

Michelle's neighbors have a awesome inflatable slip-n-slide.

The kids had a blast (except for Avery who refused to go on it. She was in terrible need of a nap.).

And two videos...

The night before Lexi's birthday the kids had a camp out in Michelle and Justin's backyard.

As I was driving home that night, it started poring!

Seriously it was dumping buckets.

Sean and Jared were such good sports and slept in the tent with the kids.

Lexi, Devin and Addie were the only ones who ended up making it out there through the night.

We roasted marsh mellows and had S'mores one night.

The kids love that.

We ate pretty much every meal outside.

I just love this picture I took of Lyla eating right after a nap.

Eli makes this face a lot.

Avery did too.

One afternoon, the kids all tried to ride on Justin at once.
He was a great sport about it.

The kids swam at least once a day in the kiddie pool.

Here's the girls drying off in the sun.

It was so fun to see all these girlie girls together.

One day we went to Scheel's.

We'd be planning on going there with Jared and Val since we first went.

Most of the kids and the men rode the Ferris Wheel.

Sean is such a goof ball!

The kids enjoyed going around to all the photo booths.

This skunk is so popular.

Everybody wanted a turn with it!

There's Avery's new fake smile again.

I put this BYU football helmet on Eli and he went crazy with excitement.

He loved it! I was so surprised.

We also went swimming in our complex pool.

I didn't take too many pictures but here's a few I got before I got wet.

Here's my super cute niece Lyla.

She is so full of personality and makes me want to have another little girl.

Squinty eyes Avery.

My niece Halle giving me some sass!

 

I was so impressed with my niece Adalynn.
Here she is swimming underwater.
She didn't even need a floaty.
She's like a fish!
But I guess that comes from getting lots of practice during all those hot Vegas summers.

Here's two videos I took...

It was such a fun week.

We the girls had a blast with all of their cousins and we're already looking forward to 

everyone getting together for Thanksgiving and Devin's baptism in November.