The Krebs Reunite!

In August, my brother John came home from his mission in London, England.

To celebrate his return and gather as a family, we had a reunion.

We held it up Ogden Canyon at a timeshare resort my Grandpa let our family use.  It was AMAZING.  As is all our time with my family.

Emma was SUPER excited to see Uncle John home from England.  Here he is with the kiddos.

The resort had great outdoor tables for all of the messy kids while they dined.  These are the oldest four.  They sure had a great time being together.  Too bad they live in 3 different states...

Grandpa joined us for a portion of the week and made us breakfast the mornings he was around.

The three musketeers.  Emma, Tyler and Aliya are 4 months apart in age.  Pretty darn cute if you ask me.

These rocks were in the backyard of our rooms.  Grant thought they were his personal rock climbing wall.  Thank goodness Uncle Tom was willing to follow him around many, many, many times. 

Grandpa and darling Elsie... such a cute baby!

Almost every night we would play games and run around in the backyard.

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And the other set of three musketeers.  Except these three are 8 months apart.  Every time I put Grant in his high chair to eat, William and Joseph would suspiciously find their way over to his chair to help themself to his food.  Not sure if he ate much the whole week, but at least we could share with cousins!!

Uncle Glen was great at entertaining the kids (and the rest of us).

We went on a very short hike one of the evenings.  Have to keep things short and sweet with 9 kids in tow.  Emma, Aliya and Ty having more fun!

Our final hiking group!  Randomly ran into our pal Allen Sproul from Kentucky on this hike!!  Talk about crazy coincidence!!

We rented a boat and spent one day on the lake.  It was definitely a HIGHLIGHT of the trip.  The beach was super great sand, which gave the kids plenty to do all day.  Then we rotated turns on the boat.  Wish I could say I was a super star on the skiis again, but unfortunately I couldn't quite get up on anything but the knee board.  Boo.  I hate getting old.

Captain Jackson, who got a little sick while riding on the boat and threw up all over the boat.  Poor little guy. :(

Laura, 9 months pregnant, on the boat.  We were hoping all of bumps and waves would put her into labor early so that the family could all meet the baby!!  No suck luck.  But, boy was she a trooper on the family reunion. 

Aliyah decided she wanted to lay under the towel.    Haha.  She is always creative!

Another day was spent touring the Brigham City Temple, followed by lunch at Maddocks.  It was special to be in the temple with our family.  But, I have to say my children were being especially naughty that day, and my spirit of peace and love was not at it's highest point.

Our table at Maddocks.  Super famous steak house in Brigham City.  The rolls were AMAZING. 

We followed the temple with a tour of a friend's farm and cabin property.  The kids loved seeing all of the animals.

Paddle boating at the cabin. 

Trying to get formal pictures of all the grand kids.  I believe we spent more energy in this one task than anything else through the week.  WHEW!!!!

Pool side lunch.  I just love Emma's hand on her hips.  Because I see these hands on these hips FAR TOO OFTEN!

It was a WONDERFUL REUNION!!!!  We just love being with family.  

Here are some of our "inside joke" stories that we collected at the end of the reunion for posterity.  I won't go into detail explaining them, but wanted them recorded somewhere:

Ty/Emma/Aliya sing songs at extended Krebs reunion
Jojo ox cart song
Jeanette's 5lbs bag of chocolate
Watched the lorax
Red rover
Grant getting flown in the air and loving it
Will running into everyone during red rover
Tammy breaking the chain so hard that Emma flew back and hit her head- no mercy
Grant loving duck duck goose and rocks ("ra")
Emma and Aliya best princess buds
Morning devotionals
The great Dalmoody and matt as the. Permanent scum and laura's "woot"
Glen's Dalmoody quote-"it's lonely down here at the bottom"
John's mission questions and Tyler's question: "ummm, someone's going to sweep all this up right?"
Emma in line at Cherry Hill: "my grandpa is the fattest of them all!"
Glen liking to have Matt come over and beat him up so the he has a little attention. It is rough being the last child
Ty: When you smile really big at her(Elsie) And she smiles back at you really big
Mom: " it's hard to keep track of your age bc they keep changing"
Grandpa Hancock on babysitting rate " I won't tell you bc I want you to have a good time.
Tyler wanting to move to brigham city bc of the TV on the bus
Jojo looking up Laura's dress " I get it" looking for the baby
Jojo and will running into each other at the tennis courts
All the kids being entertained at the tennis courts
Emma telling Jeff how perfect she is and howbshe would never do anything wrong
Olympics: Ty popping 36/50 balloons in one minute
mom and dad's "little blue man"
Ben and Tyler's skit
Monster mayhem at Maddox- the lunch from hell
Running into Al Sproul  on our "hike"
Charades
Mom to the cranky little kids" it Sounds like you need chocolate"
Grandpa Hancock babysitting and laying next to a scared Emma
Pirate will (always closes one eye when he smiles)
Will running naked on the beach
Glen's joke "how much does an elephant weigh? It's irrelephant" And Ashlee pretending it was on the laffy taffy
John wanting to become a prosthetic engineer but not willing to lose a limb
Aliya "whispering" in church
Emma having to pee in line at Cherry Hill and after the slide... "I think I went in line so I don't have to go to anymore" 

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And it ended with a Krebs Family miracle!!!  Greg and I were supposed to drive home on Saturday, but Laura had still not had her baby.  So we decided to stay ONE more day and hope that she went into labor... and by nothing short of a miracle, she did!!!  All of our prayers worked!

Here are my Mom and I in the hospital Saturday night when they started the induction.
About 4 am we got a call that she was feeling contractions and labor had started!  We flew over to the hospital were so blessed to be in the labor room while the baby was born.

It was such an honor to be in the delivery room.  Laura was amazing!!!  She had severe pain in her neck that was causing trouble pushing, but she was so strong and made it through.  It was so amazing watching the baby born.  I am really grateful to Laura and Tom for letting me be a part of it all.

Here he is in all his glory!!  Spencer Thomas Bay... meet the world!!

We realized in the hospital room that Laura, John and I all had our National Champ shirts... so of course we had to take a picture with the tiniest UK fan.

SO. PRECIOUS.