Family Reunion Time!

I think we have recovered from our 2 in row whirlwind weekends.  We're not as young as we used to be so recovery is slower.....

We spent last weekend in Ohio for the McConnell Family Reunion.  We hopped on a plane out of Tucson at 6AM and met up with the entire Albuquerque Walker Clan in Chicago to fly to Cleveland.  All 9 of us boarded the plane and invaded Wellington.  Mom always loves going back to the farm and seeing Grandma.  I have finally overtaken her in height.  Poor Grandma, she's such a sport!

Once we got settled, we headed to Fort's, a Wellington institution, for their Friday night fish fry.  We met up with cousins Jack and Cait and ran around like crazy kids.  Mom was able to corral us for about 15 seconds to get this picture.

After dinner, we headed back to the farm and did our annual "walk around".  We had to check out the creek, the back 40 and the barn.  We will never stop being amazed by how green it is.

On Saturday, we headed up to Vermillion and Main Street Beach for a day of fun in the sun on Lake Erie.  The water was so warm and we enjoyed it until someone suggested that brain eating ameoba live in warm water.  Waa waa waaaahhhh.  That freaked everyone out just a little bit but we still had a good day.

Nana D and Mr. Walker took Grandma home and the rest of us headed to a cute little local restaurant for a late lunch with some local brewskis.  The food was good, the beer was decent and there were a few outdoor games to keep us kids busy so it was a win, win, win.

We left Sunday morning but before we headed out, we got in one last breakfast with the family.  We managed to get most of the crew in for one final shot but Sophia's agent forgot to tell her about the photo shoot so she decided not to participate.  Maybe next time!

We didn't actually make it to the reunion but Mr. Walker sent us this super cute picture of Aunt Hazel, Grandma and Aunt Ida.  We love these ladies!

We spent this week just recovering.  I had a civil engineering day camp and I got to build bridges, earthquake and tornado proof buildings etc.  I decided I liked civil engineering over bioengineering but either way, I had a good time.
Dad spent his week ramping up at work - he was named acting director which means all of the work but none of the pay.  Hopefully, this will be short term and he can be named "official" director.
Mom's week was nothing exciting, which is really a good thing.
We have one more quiet week and then I head off for softball camp next weekend so we'll have a more exciting post then!