Hello, John and I have finally made it back from our vacation. This time we went to Ruidoso, New Mexico for a family reunion. There are 5 sisters, myself, Margie, Karen, Madeline and Toni, who planned this reunion for one whole year. John and I left on Tuesday June 26th to Tulsa, Oklahoma where we stayed with Karen overnight. We took off at 6:00 AM towards El Paso, Tx where we would be staying with Karen's son Gabe. This was a 14 hour drive from Tulsa, stopping every now and then to stretch due to having two small kids with us. When we arrived two sisters were already there with their families. On Thursday we went shopping for food and other items for the weekend event. Talk about shopping, every store we went to, we had at the minimum of 3 baskets. Friday we picked up the perishables and loaded up a trailer and we were off to the mountains of New Mexico. This was another 2 1/2 hour drive. There were 5 of us following each other and had a thunderstorm on the way up. We got there and started to unload. The deer were everywhere even at 4:00 in the afternoon. Karen took charge of one house and I took the other. We had John and son Jimmy start to BBQ hamburgers and Hot Dogs for the group. Later we waited for sister #5 to arrive from Washington State. She had the farthest to come. Taking almost 30 hours due to traffic she finally arrive at midnight. We stayed up finishing gift bags and other things for Saturday morning. While many went to the Texas Tree House to eat breakfast, I stayed at the Alhambra house and made Chili and potato salad. Toni made a fresh fruit salad in a carved out watermelon. The food was fantastic, as it was fried chicken, beef fajitas, ribs, macaroni salad, Chili Beans (home made) potato salad, fresh fruit, veggie plate, cheeses, bread rolls, cake, drinks and many other things. We had 42 people who came for the weekend and it started Friday night and ended on Monday morning at 10:30 AM. We came down the mountain back to El Paso for the night and proceeded to come back our way on Tuesday morning again at 6:00 AM. Spend the night in Tulsa and left at 6:00 AM for Grain Valley. Highway 71 was down to one lane due to flooding but we got home safe and sound on Fourth of July afternoon. So naturally unpacking and washing, we are getting back into the swing of things. I wanted to share a few pictures but I took close to 100 on my own camera that I will print and eventually share with you guys. Glad to be back and see what I have posted below.
This is the picture of us five girls. left to right bottom, Margie, Chris, next row: Madeline, Karen and far top Toni. We planned this reunion for 1 yr and we are proud of the results.
We took family pictures and this was mine, bottom row, left to right, Sarah, Chris, Jimmy, Kaylea, Top Desire, John and Jimmy Jr.
This is a picture of our son Jimmy and his wife Sarah and of course, the baby, Kaylea Rose. She is 1 1/2 yrs old and very smart. She knew which one of the adults was her grandma and grandpa. We are very proud of her and naturally the other two grand kids.
Kaylea took time out to sit with Grandpa John and watch the races on TV. She was so cute sitting there and just enjoying her grandpa. She didn't go to him at first and I think it was the facial hair, she just stared and on the second day, she was looking for him all the time.
What we did is placed everyone on the staircase from the Texas Tree house and took a group picture. There were 42 of us and each time we had at least one or two people out of the picture taking the group pictures with at least 6 to 8 cameras at one time. It was a sight to see.
We enjoyed ourselved so much no one wanted to go home. We will be planning another one in about two years and will see where the next one will be.
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