The big Wait Family reunion...

Lets start from the beginning, it's usually the best place to start!
Everyone arrived in St. George on Friday, it also happened to be our cousin Mark's birthday. What a great way to celebrate your birthday, with your entire family...

So we did what we do best, we made food.
Some of our best memories in this family happen around food.

Everyone helped out in their own little way

The kids helped out by eating birthday cake before dinner

We also had the usual card playing going on, it is also one of our families favorite pass time
(despite the fact that my mom constantly comments on how much it drives her nut, lol)

Here is Camey buttering up the corn and wrapping it in tin-foil

Ashley offered to help out with cleaning the chicken.
The dinner was amazing and Celo did a great job at the b-b-q. Everything tasted so good and we all had a great time eating and socializing.

The next day was Valentines day.I had gotten all of my kids shirts to wear for the holiday. I am such a sucker for holiday shirts for kids, I think they look so cute on them.
Here's Blake

Brooklyn

Bella

and of course
Bayleigh

The kids enjoyed the morning out on the back deck the was along the back side of my mom's timeshare. It was such a nice morning and they played and ate fruit with Ashley.

Once everyone was ready, we got into our cars and drove to a state park that wasn't to far away. My mom wanted to take the kids somewhere they could explore and see all the great rocks in the area!

Here is a group shot of almost everyone that came on this adventure.

Chelsey and Celo stayed back when it came time to journey down some not so easy paths.

On the way back up Ben spotted some animal tracks and had the boys take a look. They all took guesses on what they thought made it!

When it came time for the second part of the adventure a few more of us headed back to the cars. Kennedy fell and hit her chin, so we went back to get her cleaned up...

This is just Bayleigh throwing a tantrum

She finally calm down!

The last day we decided to take a trip up to Zion national park. The drive was so beautiful, it even included snow in the park. We went through a tunnel that was inside the mountain. It was completely dark except for your headlights or the few small holes the blow out of the side. A bit claustrophobic for me, but we all did just fine.

We pulled over to the side of the road and ate lunch.

Some of us were more daring to get out of the car then others!

We even managed to have a snow ball fight with each other...

Brooks spent some time ad built this really great snowman.

We really had such a great time with everyone.

On the last night we all took a ton of family picture. I am still waiting to get the C.D. from grandpa Jack. Reed took all the picture for us, which was so great and helpful and I can't wait to see them. After pictures and dinner was over was gathered around in a big group and talked about our favorite memories about growing up in this amazing family. It sure was a night that I am never going to forget.

I really did enjoy this truely amazing opportunity we were given to get together and share some increadible memories. I was so glad to see everyone, it has been so long since we've all gotten together like this and just had a good time.