Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Baker Family Redneck Reunion

Last weekend was Shon's Baker Family Reunion. The Baker's are Shon's moms family. They have a camping reunion every year. These last two years we have borrowed a nice trailer from a wonderfully generous fellow, my friend Emily's dad, and it has made the camping sooo much more enjoyable.

This year the theme was Redneck. I must say I didn't embrace the idea as some of SHon's relatives did, but we tried. Shon's cousin Chad did amazing at being a Redneck.

This is the welcome rocks the boys and I made for our camp. We actually won for the best redneck welcome sign. It was fun.



There is always a lot of card playing at these reunions. The Baker's love to play and are very good!!
Cam snuggled right up on Grandma's lap by the fire one night and fell right to sleep. Doesn't she look to be in heaven. What is better than that?
Zack with cousin McKinlee. These two played a ton together. They share a mutual love of catching bugs of all sorts. Here they had made a little grasshopper "corral". They played with these bugs for hours.
Our attempt at looking like rednecks. I know not too great. Shon did a pretty good Larry the Cable Guy impression!!
Ty giving the pinata a whack!! THat is the trailer we borrowed right behind the pole. Soo nice.
Cameron even gave it a try and thought it was fun!!
Poor Ty got some battle wounds from our trip. Sunday while everyone was packing up and getting ready to go, the kids were riding there bikes. The place we stayed had a paved road in and a whole big parking lot for trailers and such. Lots of asphalt to ride on!!! The kids really loved it. Well, Tyler and one of his cousins crashed into eachother and both hit the pavement very hard. Tyler got mostly road rash, but Braxton just hit hard. He is only two, and he good a black eye and a big goose egg. He is okay, though, just looks really bad. It took a while to get Ty calmed down so we could doctor him up, but this is right after we got the bandaids on.
This is the next day when I took the band aids off. Pretty yucky. It is looking pretty good today though, no more oozing. He felt so bad about Braxton, just kept worrying about him. But when we told him he would be okay, he felt better. Kind of a scary ending to the fun weekend, but it was a great reunion!!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey that was a fun family reunion! It is to bad that we had that little accident on sunday! Sorry I never did the chance to come over and tell you guys everything was fine. My blog is private but if you want a invite just let me know. bakerca1205@hotmail.com

Emily K. said...

What a cute little family of rednecks! I'm lovin' Shon's cut-off plaid shirt. And, I remember giving Tyler those overalls that Cam is wearing. They're not redneck!!! Ty's face looks like it hurt. Poor kid. Glad he's okay now though.

Alison said...

Sounds like everyone had a great time. Poor Tyler, those are some pretty bad wounds. By his smile you would think "no big deal". Such a tough kid!

The Bakers said...

Poor little thing!! Glad he's okay! It was good to see you guys! I didn't really embrace the whole redneck thing either, but it sounds like everyone had a good time!

Celinda said...

Wow, poor Tyler's face. Poor Tyler. Great redneck family. Looks like you had fun! I miss you all.

Anonymous said...

Poor Tyler!! That will be sore, but make him look tuff too, big for boys! These are three pretty cute boys, and parents. We miss you. mare

mary ann harris said...

Looks like you had a fun summer. I may get the hang of this sometime!! the anny. comment was me-sorry!!

Kevin and Amber said...

This is your cousin Amber. Your family is so cute. Lots and Lots of boys :) I posted a really funny picture on my blog you should look at.