Gibbs Reunion

After alot of planning and getting things together, it is over!!

This year our family, (Ciserella, Leavitt, and Revay), were in charge of planning the reunion!! We decided that our family is just a little on the competitive side we would do a survivor theme!!

We split up into tribes and went at it!!!

We left Friday, Grace got to ride with Jerrica and Joey and she was pretty excited about that! She talked about it for a week, she really loves Jerrica!! The ride there was pretty quiet compared to our regular trips, we kinda missed Graces talking! We got caught in traffic right after St. George because of road construction, I don't like traffic and i was getting so annoyed with it. We got off at Leads to try and avoid a little of it,  Jerrica was behind us so we told her to get off the Leads exit too and go around it.My mom had left before us and got stuck in the traffic, she showed up in Marysvale about a hour after us so we were happy that we weren't stuck that long, i don't think the twins could have sat in the truck for that long!!! 

Everyone was excited to be there, i think! Grandma made some ribs, we were to late and had ate in cedar but i heard they were really good!!! 

One thing with our family is that no one like pictures, I tried to get a few good ones of everyone, but they would turn their heads or put something in front of their face!! Here are a few i got on Friday night!!! 

  

 

We didn't do a while lot Friday night, just hung out, talked, and tried to get a few thing done for the next day!

The thing we do most at the reunion is eat!!!! 

We had some good biscuits and gravy that Shelly and Dougs family made for us on Saturday morning!!!!

The girls loved all the fruit that we had, they sat at the little table and ate and ate!!!

After breakfast, we started to fill water balloons!!!

While we did the balloons the twins took a nap right out on the grass. That is what happens when you don't sleep at night in the trailer, you get your bottle and take a nap. I really want to lay down with them, but i didn't and that's why i am still tired!!!

We brought these balloon sling shots, and we filled up about 1000 water balloons to sling at each other!!! 

It was nice that everyone pitched in and helped, we had fillers and tires and then we would switch!!! 

After we filled all the balloons we loaded them all to the middle of the field, broke up into our tribes and started shooting!!! 

Sherries team for sure lost, at one point she was laying in cow crap having water balloons thrown at her!! Doug also got a pretty good hit right to the guts, and I even hit Kyle!!!! 

I didn't get any pictures of all the shooting cause i didn't want to get my camera wet, but it was alot of fun!!!!! 

After that we went back to the house for lunch! Terries family was in charge of that and lets just say Terrie should have been born in Mexico cause she makes the best tacos!!!!

Really, I wish that she was here now to make me up some pork tacos, like cafe rio style!!! 

I really don't think anyone was hungry, but thats what we do at the family reunion, beat each other up and eat!!! 

This is Mckells "competition shirt", whenever she is in any kind of competition she puts it on!!! I am glad she did, cause our team kicked butt with the balloons!!!! 

Jerrica brought these cute glasses and bunny ears for the little kids to wear, Alaynna liked her so much she cried when we tried to take them off!!

After lunch we had a treasure hunt, I made it up this year and lets just say i will not be in charge of that in the near future, or ever again!!!!

I had them run all around town,  Kyle said he was still sore!!! 

I had a clue that said, "Ding Dong, your clue is inside" It was hid inside of the bell in front of the old school house, well they thought it was on a package of ding dongs in the store so they all went in and asked for the clue!!! 

Then we are going up the road and everyone is running when all the sudden a strange man on a 4 wheeler pulls up to the side of me with Sherrie on the back of it!!! She had ran and ran and just got to tired so at the store she asked for a ride from a complete stranger!!!! 

Riley ended up winning the $100 and Kyle decided he was never doing one again cause he is to old!!!

Next we did Jerricas baby shower!!!!

She got a lot of nice things, my favorite were the little cowboy boots!!! 

I am so excited for Jerrica to have her little girl!!!

After the shower we played donkey soccer!! 

This game didn't last to long because the ball got popped!! But that is probably a good thing cause potatoes are dangerous!!! 

You are suppose to just use your hips to hit the ball, but we were using them like golf clubs, a few people did get hit, (my mother) and i have heard about it all day, so donkey soccer is not a game that should be played by our family!!!!

After that, we ate again!!!!! We made jerk chicken, baked potatoes, pasta salad, and bread!! It was really good, and because you always have to have sugar, we made grilled banana splits! 

We were all pretty tired so we didnt have much of a camp fire, we just sat around for a minute then went to sleep!! 

We woke up Saturday morning, the girls let us sleep in a little, and went over for more food!!! 

Biscuits and gravy, eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns, all made by the Poulson/Merkly family!!!! 

After breakfast we cleaned up and said our goodbyes!!! 

This year, like every year, was alot of fun, I love to be able to get together as a big family like that!!! 

I cant wait for next year, it'll be a good one cause Terrie is in charge!!!

This is going to be kinda long...

It seems like so much has happened since my last post, but it really hasn't!! I have just been crazy busy doing last minute things for our Gibbs family reunion!! 

SO here the catch up goes.....

Last Friday we went to Cody's wedding and Jakell came over to babysit for me! She had made herself some lasagna and brought it over to share with the kids!! 

She called to tell me that Alaynna really liked it and had pretty much bathed in it, she took a few pictures of the kids having dinner, notice that Alaynna really is COVERED in it!!!!

 

 

 

 

For Fathers Day, we had my dad over for dinner on Saturday night!

I made some good chicken, some yummy cream cheese corn and baked potatoes!! I always like it when he comes over for dinner, cause no matter if it tastes terrible he will always eat it and say how good it is!!!

It was a nice night, he had to go back up to Idaho so he could stay for long, but I was happy he drove home so we could see him on fathers day!!! 

Sunday morning was a rush of trying to get out the door in time for church.

We don't go all to often, mostly because we don't want to (for our own reasons), we have 3 kids, we don't want to go anywhere, that's one reason! 

I think some people forget that it isn't if you go to church on Sunday, it is how you live the other 6 days of the week. I have gotten ALOT of crap since we have been married about how we don't go to church and how i am not baptized Mormon, but i think that if you look at my life and see that i am a good person, a great mom and a great wife, it shouldn't matter what i do on Sundays.

But I will save my soap box speech for another day and get back to fathers day, cause it was a good day!!!! 

I had been stressed about what i was going to wear to church, since I had the twins nothing fits me!! Kyle had told me to stop complaining and just worry about it Sunday morning, but i was smart and picked something out that fit me the night before!! 

So Kyle gets into his "church wranglers" and comes in and says that i must have shrunk his pants cause they were to tight to wear!!! 

This is when i about peed in my pants from laughing so hard!!! 

I told him that pants don't shrink from sitting in the closet, he must have gained a few pounds!!! 

He says that it is new muscles from climbing poles, but i know different!!

Church was nice, Vance did great speaking, and the kids were pretty good!!

After Church we went to Penn and Nancy's for a breakfast for Vance! It was nice to see all the family and catch up!! 

We got to go home to take a much needed nap and clean up a few things before we loaded up the water balloon sling shots and went back down to Penn and Nancy's!! I didn't get any pictures, but Laura got a few good ones!!! 

They were alot of fun, we had to try them out before we took them up to the reunion! 

Fathers day was really nice, we love dads!!!! 

Grace went to a Primary activity with Lucy and made Kyle a tie, she was kinda mad he didn't wear it to church but after i told her we would take a picture of him with it she was ok!!! 

We also got Kyle a range finder, I was excited cause i knew he would love it so i gave it to him early!!! 

 The twins have a new game they play, 

as soon as i open the door to my bedroom, they run as fast as they can to my bathroom to get into the cupboards!

They usually take turns one in the cupboard, one opens it up and says boo!

Alaynna was in first, now she is getting out so Addison can get in!!

Sometimes Alaynna climbs in with Addison and all you can hear is them laughing!!!

They have started to play really cute with each other, like friends not just sisters!!

But they still have some pretty good fights!!!

Of course Grace is never to far away from the twins, so she usually gets in on the fun!!

This post is kinda all over the place, but thats how this last week has been!! Hopefully after this week i can feel like my head is on normal and maybe even get to relax a little!!! 

The other day Jakell came over, it was really like last week sometime, but anyways I made her go get me a Pepsi and she decided that the kids needed suckers!!! All the kids liked them, but i am mean and had just mopped my floors so they had to sit at the table and eat them!!

Poor Alaynna was still sick so she looks it in this picture, this last cold has been really hard for her to get over!!

This last weekend Kyle took the girls outside while i cleaned up breakfast and a few things! They had alot of fun playing out there and it even rained, ok more like sprikled on them!!!

In other great news Vance is home!!!!!!!!! 

 We were so happy to see him and it felt like he had never even left!! 

He talks on Sunday and we are excited to hear a few stories from his mission!! 

We are pretty boring here with the temperature at 110* we dont go outside or anything, and really there is only so much you can take pictures of inside.

Hopefully this weekend i can get a few pictures cause we have a wedding to go to tomorrow, my dad over for fathers day Saturday and down to the Leavitts and church on Sunday to hear Vance talk!!! 

Grace the Mountain Woman

Grace has a issue called "cant stop talking, ever". So at dinner tonight she had a major problem of it and kept asking to go outside, so being nice parents we are, we sent her out to play!!! (yes i know it is 109* outside but i sent her out with water and told her to stay in the shade and come in when it was hot!)

I looked out to check on her and she was in the grass with the cat picking something up so i stayed to see what she was picking up cause it looked alot like a stick. 

Then she came running screaming "mom, dad, look what i got" 

Ya this HUGE LIZARD.............

I told Kyle to go and help Grace cause she put the lizard down and the cat went after her so Grace grabbed her (We know this is a her cause she lives under our house and has babies that run all over the yard) up again. So Kyle went out looked at the thing came back in and said get your camera before this thing bites Grace!!! 

So being the concerned parents we are, we both grabbed the cameras and took a few pictures!! 

After i got a good one i ran back inside so if it got loose it wouldnt run over my feet or get anywhere close to me!!! 

Kyle told Grace to let her go in the bushes and she did and she was so proud she saved the poor lizard from the cat!!! 

For real, she is a tom boy, what other 4 year old girl picks up huge lizards?!?!

memorial weekend

I have been in a "funk" lately, maybe it was the 2 cakes in one week with sick kids and no sleep so now i am sick, or maybe it is just life i have put off dealing with and now it is finally hitting me!!! Whatever it is, my blog and my picture taking has been slacking because of it, so my only thing on my "must do" list for today is get my memorial day post up!!!

We puled the trailer up to Marysvale for the weekend, we were so excited to get out of the house for awhile and Grace was SO excited to be going to Marysvale! She loves it when we start getting packed up to go, then when we get there she starts running and doesnt stop!!

First thing Saturday morning Terrie stopped at the trailer and Grace was all excited to go with her!! She took her up to Grandma black hair, (Grandma Helens), house and it was pretty hard to make her leave!! We knew all the kids were tired so we took them for a little ride and they passed out!!

We rode up Bullion and the leaves weren't even out yet, is was kinda cold but it was nice! I always love to go up the mountain, it reminds me of going for rides as a family when i was younger!! Jakell, Jerrica and I use to sit in the back of the truck and wave to all the trees, we were weird kids but it was fun!!!

A not so fun part about this ride was all the dang 4-wheelers, i about had to get out of the truck and tell some tourist where to go and get the "blank" out of our way, but then after realizing I drive a truck with Nevada plates I decided they probably would have just thought i was some crazy women having a bad day!!!!

After we got back from our ride we stopped back at Grandma black hair and a baby magpie had fallen from the tree so we had to get a few pictures of it!

Grandma made dinner for us, spaghetti!!! I love her spaghetti, you know how there are a few things that everyone makes that are the best you have ever tasted?!? Her spaghetti is that for me, Grandpa on the other hand does not like it, but he ate it anyways!!! I hardly heard any complaining about it too, I made him take a picture with all the girls, he had to take his glasses off so there wouldnt be a glare in the picture!

After going back to the trailer and making the kids beds i hoped for a better nights sleep! On our way to Marysvale they took naps and so when we got there and in the trailer at 11 PM all they wanted to so is run, i dont think the twins have ever been awake that late! So that night was a hard night, but after making them a crib like bed in the corner they did sleep better the 2nd night!!
Grace pretty much laid down closed her eyes and that was it, she really runs till she cant run anymore!!!

On Sunday Kyle got up and went for a ride and hike! Us girls just stayed at the trailer and visited with Grandma and Grandpa Ciserella and waited for my dad to come so we could see him for a minute!!
When the girls were sick of sitting at the trailer and Kyle had got back we went on another ride! The twins fell asleep so we stopped the truck and got out and walked around!! Grace is such a daddy's girl, she loves to do whatever he is doing!!

For the rest of Sunday we just hung out and visited and let the kids run and roll and eat the dirt!! Because they rolled and ate dirt we went up and had some baths at Grandma Helens!!! While we were there, Maddi and Lexi were there to so we got to visit with them!!!

While visiting down stairs, my wonderfully older Grandma tells Maddi that she needs to put her phone charger that is plugged in out of reach of the kids cause if one of them was to get ahold of it and put it in their mouths it would blow their head apart, (anyone that know my grandma, know those were pretty much her exact words!!).
Maddi Lexi and I just kinda looked at each other then laughed, I told her she was crazy and that wouldnt happen, then she tells us that not to long ago it happened to a kid in Richfield!!!! After quite a debate we took it to Kyle and my Grandpa, Kyle said no that it wouldnt happen, but my Grandpa was on Grandma's side so we did a little experiment!!! Maddi walked over plugged her charger in and stuck it in her mouth!!!! Needless to say Maddi's head didn't blow up and she didnt even get a little shock!!!! So TV's and microwaves dont give off radiation that can kill you and phone chargers are perfectly safe to suck on while plugged in!!!!!

Monday before we went home, we decided we better go to Sandy's in Richfield for a cherry fresh lime!! We got some fries and took it to the park for a picnic! We had a little visitor, a seagull, at first Grace was scared of him but after throwing him some food she thought it was pretty cool!! So her and the twins threw fries and chased the poor bird!!! It was alot of fun and the kids really enjoyed running around before our long trip home!!!

Grace talked and asked are we there yet and the twins cried from about cedar to home!! When we were finally coming down the valley Grace says, "wait a minute, we are home!" We said yep we are almost home! Then she says "We have finally made it to our habitat!" I about died over laughing, some of the things she says cracks me up!!!!
After we got home the girls were so happy, they just ran everywhere and laughed!!! Grace even put on a fashion show for us!!!

We had a great time but the girls make it harder to stay in the trailer, Kyle asked me why i wasnt as organized this trip and i told him this was my first time camping with 3 kids who can run and tear everything apart in about 2 seconds!!! Hopefully it gets easier or we will just have to camp in the living room where cribs are not to far away!!!
After getting home I made cake all week, to see my cute 2 cakes i made click HERE (for the birthday cake)  or HERE (for the graduation cake)!
Now we are all sick with colds and Alaynna threw up this morning, not fun!! Hopefully we over this crap cause Vance comes home in a week and we want to be able to hug him, I am just a little excited to see him, 2 years is way to long!!!