Goulding Reunion

The Annual Goulding Family Reunion was a HIT like usual. A good time was had by all (except maybe Alex and Helayna...more to follow on that subject)

We spent our first night in Utah hiking in Zions. We left the girls at Tricia and Darrens and hiked part of the narrows. It was so fun and beautiful! We spent a lot of time hiking with the girls while we were out there too. They loved every second of it. They went to Zion, hiked the little narrows on the red hill and we went to that splash pad in St. George.

Kaia LOVES her uncle Dace...

Dusky, Dace, Dustin and Adlai got up bright and early one morning to go hike angel's landing...

Whatcha doin there lukey???

THE RED HILL

Kaia loved the narrows. She kept saying "I want to go up the skinny one again"

And then the reunion began....

We met at Joe and Robbie's and had dinner. Then we played a minute to win it, had a talent show and all of the kids had a sleep over.

I was a little nervous about how the girls were going to do on the sleepover. They all were sleeping in a tent and they have never had a sleepover before except for with Grandma and Grandpa. But they LOVED it. All the bigger girls took care of them. Plus, they were so exhausted that the second they laid down they were OUT like a light.

The next day they went over to the Toquerville Parade with Robbie. They had a blast.

Then we all went to Dace and Lauries and went swimming and had a BBQ.

Little Man Alex decided he wanted to do a backflip into the pool. He walked right over to the side and did a backflip in. He slammed his face in to the side of the pool. As soon as he came up there was blood everywhere, his whole face was scraped and he had a huge goose egg on his forhead. He put a big ice pack on his face and slept it off for a while. He's a champion.

So then we went back over to Robbies. We walked down to the Toqerville Park and went to a concert while the girls played at the park. Then it was getting dark and time to do fireworks. The boys bought some HUGE fireworks. So we all went out front and sat on the grass and the boys lit off the fireworks in the street.

All of a sudden, Helayna grabs her face and starts running toward the house. She said "I can't see! I think I busted my nose." There was a huge trail of blood and Helayna was GUSHING blood out of her nose. Sorry, I know it's a little graphic but it was super scary. She couldn't see out of her right eye. She had been looking up at the fireworks that were 150 feet in the air and a big mortar shell didn't go off and it came right down and hit her on the forehead/nose. Her head was sliced open from the forehead down to her nose and we thought her nose might be broken. She ended up having to go to the Emergency Room and get stiches. She had a nice swollen, bruised nose, two black eyes and stitches down her forehead.

And what does the Goulding Family do when Helayna leaves to go to the hospital? They go finish lighting off the fireworks. hahahaha.

Laurie and I were standing in the kitchen while all of this was going on and she said to me "I just had the Wilson reunion and it was totally calm, collected, nothing going on.....and then we come here...." It just wouldn't be a Goulding get together if someone didn't end up in the ER.

I LOVE that family. They make my life exciting.

Last hiking pics.....