King Christmas 2015

We had great snow for our weekend, kept the kids outside and busy!

Chauffeured ride to the top

Gavin, Melinda, Austin, Lauren & Joyce

Joyce

Annual Bingo game, much candy to be had

The next generation - Austin & Gavin (Eric's), Lauren (Melinda's), Jessie (Stacey's), Charlie (Mollie's), Haley & Amber (Stacey's), Elise (Melinda's)

Charlie playing outside about 7am

Charlie running out in the snow and back in the tub, Hawkeyes getting creamed on TV

Myrna, Melinda & Joyce perusing real estate

Eric Barta & Charlie

King Family Reunion 2014 Part Three

The place we always stay has this sad little water park that we never go to when we're down here.  It's pretty expensive and there's not much to it, but the regular pool was radioactive or something so we all got free passes.  The kids (and Mike Smith- I saw you flying down the water slides with your grandkids!) loved it

Gaelen, Haley and Jessie 

Haley

Jessi and Allison

John 

The laziest river ever, no current, you just had to kinda swim it.  

No family reunion is complete without bags...

That was a terrible toss Mal

Had you even played bags before?

Dick and Don creaming Mal and the newbie.  

Just kidding, I have no idea who won, I think I was taking a nap with Charlie at this point.

Yep, even more to come, I still have all the volleyball and family pics.  

Small Girl's Weekend at Melinda's

Val, Myrna, Melinda and her girls, Charlie and me got up super early to hit the farmer's market.  Val brought a HUGE spread of Pella Pastries.  Such a treat!

King girls crashing Melinda's house

It was nice to have a small catch up, even though it was only one day.  With no family reunion, it was nice to get a visit in

Haley is watching the girls for the summer.  The girls (and Melinda) adore having her around.

Haley and Charlie

The only man we let crash our weekend.  He was a hoot (and a pain, and a sweetheart- those toddlers are slightly bi-polar)

Cards!  Joyce brought a new game called 'Salad', don't be fooled - the game was awesome

No, Haley didn't get black eyes, just slip and sliding with the girls

The girls! B: Pat, Jess, Haley, Stacey, Val, Myrna, Lea, Joyce, Mal F: Melinda, Elise, Lauren,Dudley the wiener dog, Mollie, Charlie

The cousins stayed up WAY to late and had just a 'few' beers- it was a blast! 

Charlie watching mom load the car up in the rain

Even on very little sleep, Mal is willing to play good 'auntie'

King Christmas Jan 2012

Charlie getting his token CAT toy from Aunt Joyce

Greg and Kennedy

Mal, Jack & Myrna (I love this picture)

John, Steve and Joyce

Hot tubbin Kids

I tried to pick just one of these to post, but every one at least one kid looks nuts

Front:  Kennedy and Ali (Greg's), Caroline & Jacks (Lea's) Ethan (my step-son), Gavin (Eric's) Back: Jessie (Stacey's) Lauren (Melinda's) Charlie (mine) Haley (Stacey's) Elise (Melinda's) John (Steve's) & Austin (Eric's)

 

 

 

 

 

Funny faces!

Kennedy is done....

It's cut off, but Austin is slapping his rear which had us all rolling

Dark picture, but Lauren is a sucker for Eric, it's adorable

Movie Time!

Dance Video Games

I love this picture- I think my mom would have adored Charlie

(I love this picture too)

Cousins staying up waaaay too late and pretending their 21 again... Joyce kept coming out of her room and scolding us to go to bed