Rogers Family Reunion

July 1st - 4th

The very next day after we went to Lagoon, Spencer and I cleaned up my parents house (they were coming home that night), packed up our stuff and headed for Pocatello, Idaho for the Rogers Family Reunion.  

The Rogers family consists of Spencer's mom's siblings - Aunt Pam, her husband, Uncle Kim and Uncle Ken and his wife, Aunt Delmi - and their kids and grandkids.

I feel like we had 500 family reunions this summer, but we didn't waste a single second at any of them!  And what's a family reunion without a family dance?

The Boot-Scootin' Boogy

Grandpa dancing with his girls - Brianna and Jayden

After the dance on Friday night, everyone combined their fireworks and we had a great show!  I was a little worried about how Maggie would deal with the pops and crackles of it all, but she actually seemed to really enjoy it.

Betsy and Brielle

Maggie enjoying the show.

Cute Jordan was cheering and jumping up and down with excitement with all the fireworks going off.  It was really cute.

The show ended with everyone getting their chance to wave around some sparklers.  

Saturday was full of games fun for everyone.  This slide kept the kids busy for hours!

While Brianna didn't do any sliding down the slide, she cheered happily for each person as they came zooming down.  We got a kick out of it!

As usual, Maggie was a perfect little angel.  

When the weather got a little warmer that day, everyone headed to the university, where Betsy (and helpers) had set up this gigantic water slide.

Measuring over 100 feet long, there was quite the line of family wanting to take their turn racing down the hill.

As the day went on, everyone got more and more creative in getting down the hill.

Spencer even helped Addison get down on while standing on her feet.

This was really cute to see all three of the VanRoosendaal kids gathered around Maggie.  She loves all the attention.

That night we went up the mountain to look at some property owned by the Johnson brothers.  This was the sunset that greeted us.  It was absolutely gorgeous!

On Sunday morning church was at 8:30 in the morning.  I didn't think we'd made it that early... but we even got there on time!  I was so proud!  Poor Maggie didn't get to eat before we left though - so I had to feed her during sacrament meeting.  We hadn't been there long before Jessica (Spencer's cousin) and her daughter, Clair, joined us.  Clair is only a couple weeks older than Maggie and the two of the are adorable together.  So we just had to have a little photo shoot with the two of them.

It was so easy to get Clair to smile, but Maggie was being a bit stingy with her smiles because she was a little too distracted with Clair sitting the same chair.

That afternoon was spent playing games and talking with everyone.  This was my favorite game that happened.  These boys were adorable and I loved the idea of them playing chess at such a young age.  I'm not sure that they REALLY knew what was going on, but they thought their moves out and made it look like they were pretty smart.

Later that night, we had a talent show.  Maggie's talent with Daddy was one of the favorites :)

Tatianna playing the flute with her grandpa, Uncle Ken, accompanying

Jamie playing for her girls, Corinne and Paige, on the violins.  They did so well!  I love little girls on the violin!

Spencer serenading the crowd

Probably the favorite of the night was Vivian teaching everyone a dance that she taught to her 2 year old dance class.  I loved it!

Uncle Kim, Aunt Delmi and Uncle Ken doing Vivian's dance.  It was perfect!

One night here as I was getting ready for bed, Maggie got a crazy burst of excitement.  So I took a couple videos of her.  

This was one of the most fun weekends we've had all summer.  We love our Roger's cousins and loved the chance we had to see all those that came.  It's just so great to be surrounded by family and by people who will always love you no matter what.  We are so blessed to have such large families because the love that comes with them exceeds their size ten fold, and we are so grateful for that.  I know reunions are hard to put together, but I'm grateful that there are people willing to put the work into them because it is so worth it.  Thank you to everyone who helped out with this reunion and every reunion we've been to this summer.  We love you all and have loved the time we've been able to spend with you!