McKibben Family Reunion Day 2

Our second day was Sunday the 24th. So in the morning, about half of us tracked down a nearby LDS church and went to sacrament meeting.  After we got home and changed we decided we wanted to head down to the beach.  They were having a Kite Festival there and this was the last day, so we wanted to check it out.  The kites were so cool--I'd never seen kites shaped as animals and had no idea they were going to be so big!

Whales and frogs

tigers and ice cream cones

Garrett and Noah

Caleb and Bella

Noah and Bella

Cool Dragon Kite

Paige, Bella, Hannah and Savann watching the kites

Amelia, Hannah and Paige

Josh, Meggin, Tanya, baby Luke, Georgia, Mindy, Caleb, Noah and Bella

I got a kick out of these two...they ALWAYS had their noses in books. !

The Guthries

We headed back to get some food and let the little kids take naps and then we went back to the beach in the evening to take family pictures.  Originally, we were going to hire one of the many photographers that are in our ward to take our family pictures.  But, Sunday was the only day that we were all going to be together since Alex had to leave early the next morning to go back to work.  We didn't want to ask someone in our ward to miss church to take our pictures.  So, we took our tripod and did our best.  I thought they turned out pretty nice.  This was like 6 in the evening and the sun was still really bright.  The kids had a hard time with it. 

Alex, Savann (Garrett's sister), Sydney, Devon and Alyssa

Caleb, Tanya, Hannah, Josh (Garrett's brother) and Luke

Meggin (Garrett's sister), Jake, Celeste and Amelia

Us

Georgia and Jim

I just love this one--I think it is so cute!

Hanging out in between photos

Noah and Garrett

Sydney and Maggie

Garrett designed and ordered t-shirts for our family reunion again.  This is us wearing them. 

Sunset that night from our balcony

"The Twins"

They are technically not twins, but they really could pull it off I think. 

Lydia and Alyssa--cousins

McKibben Family Reunion Day 1

Half of Garrett's family was already here visiting and on Saturday the 23rd the rest came.  Josh and Tanya and their kids flew in Sat. morning and after Garrett picked them up from the airport, we started our drive out to Lincoln City, where we were having our reunion.  Garrett's other sister Meggin and her family were coming in later that evening. 

Garrett has been trying to persuade his parents to move out to the West Coast (preferrably Oregon) for about the last 5 years or so.  Each time they've come to visit us, they've taken a few days and driven around Oregon trying to find some place that they liked.  Well, on this trip, they actually found a place and bought it.  We were really surprised, but definitely very happy.  They found a place in Yamhill and since we drive through there on the way to the coast, we all wanted to stop and look around.   

This is their new barn.  Everytime we've driven by it on our way to the beach in the past, I've always admired this barn with the quilt squares painted on it.  And what do you know, my in-laws went and bought the barn.  How funny!!

They've also got about 3 acres, that right now is being leased out for growing wheat on it.  But they also have a lot of fruit trees around their house.  This is us looking between the wheat and the fruit trees.

Josh, Maggie and Sydney

Lydia, Alyssa, Sydney and Maggie in front of the wheat.

The kids found a great climbing tree. 

Sydney, Devon and Alyssa

Noah in the tree

Me, Maggie, Alyssa, Sydney, Tanya and Savann

Alyssa, Devon and Caleb

Alex and Alyssa. 

Right next to their property is an LDS chapel.  Now, they just have to walk next door to go to church. 

The kids enjoying the yard.  A great place to make memories. 

Alyssa, Bella, Hannah, Paige, Caleb, Noah and Tanya

This is the outside of the house.  It's a really old house and needs a lot of work, but it's a really nice one level floor plan.  The kitchen had been remodeled a couple of years ago and Georgia fell in love with that.  Here are some pictures that we took of the inside.

 The Butler's Pantry

 Part of the kitchen.  I love the stuff on the wall.

 The dining room, I think.  This house has so much storage space!

 The family room looking into the dining room (on the right)  They are not a big fan of the wood paneling, so I'm not sure what they're going to do with that. 

 The hallway (more storage cupboards on the right)

 Looking into the family room, with fireplace and big windows.

 One of the bedrooms.  There are 4 I think. 

 One of the bathrooms

And looking into the kitchen

This is where we stayed for the week in Lincoln City.  It's called the Castle and it was a cool house. It had 3 levels.   The top floor was the kitchen, dining area, bathroom and living area with a deck and a bbq.  The second level had four bedrooms and the main floor had two bedrooms, laundry room, game room with a pool table, a bathroom and a sauna.  And they had a hot tub out on the patio There were 6 bedrooms and all but two had a queen sized bed and at least one set of bunkbeds, some had two sets of bunkbeds.  And each of the 4 bigger bedrooms each had it's own bathroom.  It was really nice and held all 23 of us comfortably. 

After we figured out where everyone was staying, we hung out for awhile.  This is Bella and Alex and Sydney. 

Alyssa and Maggie

Josh and their new baby Luke

Sweet baby Luke

Georgia, Garrett and Savann

After dinner, most of us headed down to the beach.  Tanya stayed behind so her little ones could go to bed, as did Jake and his two little girls.  So, I put Noah to bed and had Tanya listen for him.

Maggie, Sydney and Alyssa

Devon and Lydia had fun together

Devon and his girls.  (Lydia, Sydney, Maggie, Alyssa, Bella, Paige and Hannah)

The sunset was absolutely georgeous!

Bella's holding her pants way up so they don't get wet.