The last weekend in June was the annual Godard Family Reunion. This is my mom's side of the family and it is always something I look forward to every year. It's not your typical boring family reunion.....it's always a ton of fun! This year it was in Sulphur and each family rented a cabin close to Lake Arbuckle and mom and dad's house served as a gathering place!
The kids and I got there Friday afternoon and headed straight for the lake. We met up with Kena and Matt and my mom's Cousin Jessie Lee and his family. The kids had a blast!
That night we all met up at the Chickasaw National Park for a picnic.
The kids all had a good time trying to catch minnows in their nets
It made all of us "older" cousins so happy to see all of our babies playing so happily together
The old guys enjoyed chatting and reminiscing
Hannah did a lot of baby holding
The kids all loved Uncle Ronald (my granddad's brother) because he had chess on his phone.
Saturday morning a group of us got up early to go zip-lining. Most of us had never done it before and it ended up being a really fun time and a really good workout! If you ever need a great place to zipline check out the place is in Davis.
We all ate lunch at mom and dad's house before heading out to the lake. These 3 girls enjoyed playing together. Paisley was the sweet mediator between the feisty Vivi and Meg!
Sweet girls!
And then it was more time on the lake!
Meg really warmed up to Aunt Vickie!
And Saturday night we had dinner at an Italian restaurant in town
Then headed back to the house for Minute to Win It games Kena had put together. And boy were they fun. We have some fierce competitors in the family!
Brody and his buddy Ronald!
The red team members!
First competition was using chop-sticks to put M&M's in a cup. Bryson won that one for the pink team!
Next up was seeing who could balance the most brownies on their forehead
The funniest one of the night was the elephant. Seeing who could knock the water bottles down with their trunk!
The toughest was the golf ball challenge. Trying to balance a golf ball on top of two others. Think it can't be done?
Sharon showed everyone it can be done!
Puzzle race
Toilet paper wrapping was tougher than it looked. Someone bought cheap paper and it kept ripping!
The games ended in a tie between the black team and the red team. Kena decided a running race would be the perfect way to break the tie. Brody went up against Billy and gave him a run for his money, but Billy showed mercy and brought the win to the black team!
The black team. I'm pretty sure that Billy and I were the only fierce competitors on our team. And we still won. Not to brag or anything :)
The pink team
The red team
The winner board!
Afterwards the kids all wanted to do their own version of the games!
It was a perfect evening!
Sunday morning we all met up for a delicious breakfast. And managed to get a pretty good group shot. I am so thankful our family does fun things like this! We had to hurry on home for our big vacation that we were heading off to the next day!
