The Beal/Cannon Family: Atomic Days

It's been a pretty crazy busy week. On Monday I did a ton of work trying to get back into the swing of things after coming back from vacation. After dinner that night I took the 3 kids swimming at the pool in Eagle with Anna's family. Any chance I have to go swimming with them I try to take them up on it. I ended up babysitting all 4 of Alex and Anna's kids all day Tuesday and Wednesday. It was pretty exhausting. We all survived! I went to the park and unloaded what seemed like 50 little children, one old man walking his dog said, "do you have any more in there?" It was pretty funny. We went to the park, played in the sprinklers, baked some cookies, made bracelets, played video games, watched movies etc. Seriously 9 hours straight is a lot of hours to kill. Ha!

On Thursday I spent the whole day getting ready to leave for the Beal reunion in Arco. Kelsey and Justin flew in that night and got to sleep in the triple bunk bed. Oh the luxury. We woke up super early and loaded up and headed out. I ended up leaving Ryan home with Scott. We decided we would both be much happier with this arrangement. It's not easy or fun to take a baby on the road and Scott doesn't really love going to my parents house when it's really crowded and so HOT (no AC, we are spoiled and like it cold over here). So it ended up working out great. Scott had a great time with Ryan in his air conditioning watching some super nerdy international video game tournament all weekend.

All of my siblings and family arrived sometime on Friday. Chase and Rachel were able to come from OK and Kelsey and Justin from Vegas. Yay! Almost the whole weekend I mostly sat in a camping chair chatting it up with whoever was present. Friday got a little long because I didn't seriously do anything else. I thought about swimming or playing volleyball or playing games but mostly I just sat in some lawn chair all day. Ha. Hart and Jory set up a huge projector and we watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding. It was really fun and that movie is so funny and I haven't watched it forever. It's especially fun to watch funny movies with my dad because he laughs tons and it's highly entertaining to me.

On Saturday a few people went and ran in the 5K fun run in the morning. Keaton won the raffle grand prize of propane valued at $250. (That will make a great gift for my dad). Awesome. All of us went and watched the parade. My kids got tons of candy. They got super close to the parade too many times. Piper is not scared at all especially when candy is involved. You've never seen a 2 year old get so much candy especially with such stiff competition with all of the cousins. She's scrappy and people were kind to let the 2 year old grab candy.

After the parade a few of us headed up to Mackay Dam to enjoy the drive and take a quick dip. The water was cold and dirty but it was fun to ride with my parents and talk with them and enjoy the scenery. It was also really refreshing to get wet. My girls had a fun time throwing rocks in the water. The rest of the day I sat and chatted in a lawn chair. That night we chatted around the fire. It was a really fun time. The kids had tons of fun playing with cousins. I loved that they spent 2 full days outside. It was great. We had to drive home super early so Kelsey and Justin could catch their flight back to Vegas.

They needed a last minute sub for Corbin's primary class. His class is rowdy but it was fun. I loved that I could tell Corbin was proud to have his mom sub. It was cute. I'm not looking forward to the day when he will be embarrassed to have me sub. Ha.