Showing posts with label ping pong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ping pong. Show all posts

Monday, October 13, 2014

Nelson Family Reunion comes to an end

The fun times kept rolling up to the very end even though more people went home each day...

Nana killing it at karaoke with her granddaughters

Heather

My cute husband.  :)  

Bananagrams!


Emmalyn spending time with Grandpa.  He was so sweet with her.  It caught me off guard when he wanted to hold her and hung out with her for awhile at night.


Video - these nerf guns were the hit of the party for the little boys.  (If only they were able to load them on their own...)

This melts my heart - the love here in this picture....sigh....

Peter helping Maxwell build a dinosaur

Grandpa doing a duet with Ari

Emmalyn had a nice little blowout all over her aunt.  :)  Even after all that, Kimi still kindly gave her a bath.

Our last day in Vegas was Kimberly's birthday so we celebrated, of course!!!




That's a lot of candles! :)

Putting Emmalyn to sleep

All the kids had a great time playing ping pong with Grandpa.  He is so good with them!

Even Max got into it!

Video - Max hitting ping pong balls from the machine

Even Tyler got some time with Emmalyn

It was so great to be around so many family members, many of whom it's been YEARS since we've spent time together like this.  I wish everyone had been able to be there.  I sure love my family!!!

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

More Nelson Family Reunion

We continued to have a ton of fun...


I came across Kaitlyn reading to Maxwell.  I thought this was sooooo incredibly sweet.  What a great big cousin! (And I'm proud of her for reading when it wasn't mandatory!)


Heather made another yummy pudding treat (This pic is from yesterday though)

We were feeling a need to get out of the house and get the kids out of the pool so most of us headed to the strip to wander inside the Bellagio and then watch the Fountains.

Panoramic shot (I'm not good at these yet but you get the idea)


Funny face.  :)  
I was walking around with her in the baby carrier and she was STARVING but yet we were all ready to go and no one wanted to hang out for a half hour while I sat down and fed her, so I figured out how to feed her while she was still in the carrier.  Not comfortable but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do.  Add it to the list of crazy places I've nursed - - walking through the Bellagio.

No photo's please

He's been working on his "thumbs up" - happy with his ice cream.

...Later... happily finishing off the bowl of potato chips.  Life on vacation is good!!!

Enjoying the pool.  Max swam a little with the life vest on but also swam without it and did great jumping in and swimming to either Peter or I.  He was getting pretty brave which was good for him but sometimes he was too brave so you had to watch him closely.


Our chef

Family pic with the whole group.  Wish that the rest of the family could be here!

Goof balls

It's firework time!!

Emmalyn talking to Nana and Grandpa

Maxwell wasn't happy that we made him come outside and watch

The fireworks were not, shall we say, an earth shattering display this year.  It was pretty funny.  I still enjoyed them!

Geoff, Brent, Jocelyn, Katherine, Marriann

The kids gathered round for sparklers.  I think we had only 3 wounds.  I'm grateful Max is still scared of them...




An intense game of father/son vs. father/son


The fans cheered on whoever was playing


After the matches, we playing Minute to Win It which is always good for laughs.

We were having a great night enjoying each other's company so we kept the fun going after it got too late for us to be making a ton of noise playing ping pong and games.

Who builds a fire and roasts marshmallows in the middle of summer in Vegas?  We do!
Heather, Kevin (Kimberly's boyfriend), Kimberly, Geoff, Peter, Katherine, AJ

Kimberly, Brittany, Jocelyn, Sharee

We stayed up SUPER LATE (I think 2 am!?) It was one of those nights that was so incredibly enjoyable on an adult level just to connect.  Great conversations, great people, lovely night.  (Peter and I set up one phone in the bedroom and one outside to "facetime" as a makeshift baby monitor so that we'd know when Emmalyn woke up.  Technology is great!)

As far as I know, none of the neighbors complained... :)