Family Reunion

On the 14th, our official bi-annual (or every two years if that's not what bi-annual means) Watts Family Reunion took place in Colorado, home of Nicole and Tristan Nelson (Steve's sister and brother-in-law). We had an Olympic team and an appropriately-sized cabin in the Colorado National Monument Park. I didn't take very many pictures.  Oops.

Here are the cuties in the car on the way there.  It's only about a 4 hour drive, so not too bad.  They were both tired of their car seats by the end, but they were troopers.  It was a good trip.

Not sure why I took this picture.  This is me in the car on the way there.  I was a trooper, too. :)

For part of the family reunion, Grandma and Grandpa took the older cousins on a "Dinosaur Dig."  They actually went to a site where paleontologists had found dinosaur bones and were taught how to look for and dig out bones.  Only one of the 7 actually found one.  The younger ones (i.e. Meg and Emilia) were really upset they couldn't go, too.  So, Nicole and I took them to the Fruita dinosaur museum to do some of their own digging.  They were perfectly happy with this solution and I learned something new:  apparently, you can grind up walnut shells and it ends up looking like sand, without all the dustiness.  It's softer, too.  This would be awesome for a volleyball court, methinks.  I'll put it on the list for when I'm a millionaire with a big mansion on an even bigger piece of land.

That's it.  That's all I took pictures of.  We also did a rafting trip, a hike and played LOTS of games.  The kiddos loved have a big house and lots of cousins to entertain themselves.  We all came home Monday morning.  Thanks for the great trip, Nelsons!