Hadley Family Reunion 2011: "I'll Stand by You"

June 10th, 2011

Meree and I had our turn to put on the Hadley Family Reunion this year.
We chose: "I'll Stand by You" as the theme and it turned out to be a clever one. There were lots of pun options anyhow. If I'm going to catch up on blogging and I'm backed up since June, I'm going to have to limit my photos. Here are the few of many that made this post's cut:

We met at Temple Square, toured the childrens section of the museum and watched a film (that the volunteers stopped early because they showed us the wrong one).

Then we went to Anita's in Payson and opened the theme up with a terrific two-year slide show complete with 12 songs featuring the "Stand By You" theme.

Next Day: We played games including a stand-by-your-fort competition (I bought these awesome color-able forts on Zulily back when I had money) and competed to see whose tower would stand the tallest
(ours would have won but we ran out of time).

That afternoon we went to a park to play games involving feet (which are used for standing).







Thus continued the summer of Annie loathing the car seat.

Hadley Family Reunion 2010

It was the Ogden year for the fam-damly-reunion so we drove up north to Pine View Reservoir. I was in a terrific mood because I had spent the previous two days on vacation in SLC by myself. This included eating wherever I wanted and shopping for an entire day by myself at Ikea. I love love love alone time. Too bad it's coming to a halting end... Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: I'm so on her dreaded train right now. Anyhow, back to the reunion: Meree and I are in charge next year so we tried to talk everyone into going to Disneyland. Looks like I'll be heading to Disneyland by myself because they voted on a return to Pine Valley {anyone noticing a theme here?). I tried to tell them that some places are simply worth the yeast infection you bring home but alas- the Hadley's are the type of people who clean before they clean so flying over Never Land will wait. We had loads and heaps of fun together but my favorite part BY FAR was Anita's pesto turkey oven broiled sandwich. I just want to get that down in writing so I don't forget about it. That girl knows how to lay down a sandwich!