day two started out with family pictures. ryan's mom had every family make a banner with their family's handprints on it (and one of the whole family) and room for a family picture in the middle as a momento from this summer.
the ryan varga family
cody, ryan, isaac, katie, bonnie
the burklund family
ryan, kai, owen, aubrey, kellen
the sean varga family
nicole and sean
the mamanakis family
farrah, mike, aaron, ethan
rachael, logan, hyrum
grandpa and grandma
the whole may 2015 gang
isaac had quite an obsession with rocks. he filled any pocket he had on that day with little rocks. we had to make a rule that the rocks needed to stay outside, so this is where he ended up a lot of the time.
sean and nicole were in charge of pictures and then had water games to play afterward. a bit of harmless water balloon tossing
quickly turned into an all out water fight
and lots of soaked people.
(taking care of a baby is a great excuse for avoiding soaking :)
we also got to paint our balloon boats that morning, which actually wasn't nearly as messy as i would have expected with so many little kids!
we did lunch on our own each day from leftovers or whatever community stuff there was in the kitchen. after lunch we had a bit of nap/relaxing time.
ryan burklund took his boys out fishing
we had great pre-dinner activities that kept all the kids busy while dinner was being made by individual families. grandma and grandpa brought a treasure hunt. i think there was at least $75 or so in change in that bucket.
grandma had a piggy bank for each kid to put their spoils into. logan and ethan had quite a job after the younger kids went to bed of finding all the coins we couldn't fish out before dinner.
all the cousin play-time made for pretty tired kids by the end of the day. i was so glad we brought lots of books to read and share.
somehow i missed out on the sparklers all together! good thing we shared pictures with everyone so i could catch these fun moments too.
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