The Hoe Down

The second day of our family reunion we had a "hoe down" at my in-laws house. They have 5 acres of land and a huge house (designed specifically for when we all get together). My father-in-law made up a treasure hunt for each family which took us all over his property. At the end was a bag with some fun toys for the kids, a frisbee, an American flag and a Gospel Art Book. We were also assigned another family member to "get-to-know" throughout the day. The kids had a great time trying to learn each other's favorite colors and foods.

We pulled out our new little pool and filled it with water balloons for the kids to play with. I put an X on a few of the balloons and the kids got a dum-dum if they found a balloon with an X. Baby Dragon didn't like that the balloons were being thrown and popped and not left to play with in the pool.

Afterwards Handsome Husband and his brothers put on some water relay races. Baby Dragon did a great job taking her turn running her water back and forth. Sweetie watched for the first round and then she got her own cup and ran back and forth to put water in the bucket, but she didn't wait in line, she just went back and forth the whole time. But by the time she got to the other side each time there were only a few drops of water left in her cup!

Here's Handsome Husband being the cool uncle:

I played some bluegrass music on my fiddle with my sister-in-law, Mary Cate (on mandolin) and her husband, Porter (on banjo and guitar). My other sister-in-law, Laura joined us for a couple songs on her guitar.

We had a tasty meal of dutch oven meals outdoors on the picnic tables. I didn't have a dutch oven so I made a bunch of corn bread. For dessert we had cobbler with home made ice cream. We sang some songs and some of the nieces and nephews showed off some talents. Two of the nieces did some clogging and Baby Dragon went up to them afterward and said, "I didn't know that you could dance so good!" She is starting to get pretty interested in dancing.