This last weekend we had a “Barber Family reunion”.
Friday night we met at my house and had a pot luck dinner, and some of us pitched tents to sleep in that night.
After dinner the kids played on the playground, and ran around with cousins having a good time goofing off.
The adults sat around and chatted, and got caught up on each others lives.
Then we started a fire in our fire pit and roasted marsh-mellows and make smores. Mmmmm!

Saturday morning a few of us went to Silver lake. Mark got the girls and I up at the ‘but-crack’ of dawn to get up to the lake as soon as we could. Well… there is a funny story to tell with this, and it is an embarrassing moment for me, but funny enough that I wanna share it, because, if you cant laugh at yourself, then your pretty much a dud!!!!
So here it is:

So, after Mark woke me up (after not getting a good night sleep, only sleeping a few hours) he asked me to mix up some milk for cereal for breakfast. (We have been drinking a powdered milk called “Morning Moo” lately, and you know, it tastes VERY close to regular milk) So anyway, barely awake with my eyes barely open, no shower to wake me up, hair in every direction, and a slightly grumpy attitude at the fact that I was up so early, I started making the milk.
We all sat down and started munching cereal.
Well, after a couple bites Mark said “Uuuh! What is wrong with this milk?!?!” I felt a bit insulted in my half conscious state, but I kept eating.
The kids all said very similar things. So I thought "Well…. I guess I dont make the milk right (sarcasm ooozing from every pour) I just kept eating, and glaring at Mark. Everyone else dumped out their bowls.
Then, Mark sniffed the milk container and looked up at me and said “this smells like flour, are you sure you put in the milk powder, not flour?”
In my state of ‘walking zombie’, I started saying something to the effect of “I’m not that dumb”, but never got it all out. I started trying to think back to when I mixed it up, and I couldnt honestly think of which container I dipped the measuring cup into. Both containers sit next to each other on our counter.
So, Mark and I both went in and took a look at the two containers. Sure enough, I made flour water.
And the funny thing was, I ate all my cereal with flour water! LOL
So, this time Mark made the milk, and everyone else ate.

We got up to the lake, and Mark started setting up poles, and I laid out a blanket to sit on, and put my yoga mat on top of it. I was still very tired, and I think I have not fully recovered from my pneumonia yet, cause just walking around the lake made my chest hurt, and made me cough a bit.
So, I laid down intending just to catch my breath and relax a bit, when all of a sudden I’m waking up and after talking to mark found out I had been asleep for 2 hours and slept through the children’s excitement of catching 4 fish!!! WOW,,,,I Must have been tired!!
So, at that point I pretty much woke up, packed up and we left.

We got home, I FINALLY got my shower! Wahoo!
Then it was time to get ready for the second half of our reunion. We packed up food, games, toys, hoses for water games, our stereo and laptop to play music from, and a bunch of other stuff n junk.
We took it all over to our stake center, in the back of the parking lot there was a large pavilion and a large field.
This is where we were going to be spending the remainder of our day.

One TOTALLY AWSOME part of this day was, Chet, who just graduated boot camp, was able to fly home from Texas, (with about 1 day’s notice) He got a week’s leave with his family, and it just happen to be on the Family reunion. This alone was a pretty amazing event, that he was able to get leave at all. But, something that makes it even more special is that his son Kyler turned 8 while Chet was in boot camp, so he was not home to baptize his son after he turned 8. They had agreed to wait till Chet got home to do that, so through all kinds of miracles, in 1 days advanced notice, we were able to throw a baptism together at our stake house so he could baptize Kyler!

So, a few hours after our lunch pot luck at the stake pavilion we all walked into the stake house and held our own private baptism that my bishop oversaw.
It was just amazing that it came together like it did!
So many things were trying to prevent it, Chets family had that morning been at Glen’s house, and their vehicle broke down just before they were suppose to come to the pot luck. So they were racing around to buy the part and fix it in time. And Chets bishop from Manti was going to be down there to preside over it, but the morning of, he got real sick and couldnt move. So he was able to talk to our bishop over the phone and work out all the details.

It was a “Most Excellent” baptism (as my bishop would say)
It was the most casual one too! No one had enough notice to pack church attire for the occasion so we all showed up in street cloths.
It was neat though to see how quickly we threw together talks, songs, and everything we wanted.
It was sure a special touching event for us all!

After that, we went back to the pavilion for water games for the kids, and something called “dead or alive” for the adults and older kids. It was kind of like tag, but with a football. I didnt participate, I was still tired, and I’m glad I didnt, it looked brutal!
But they played that for a long time and seemed to have a very fun time!

After we all packed up and went home, we got our kids to bed and Mark and I went out in our hot tub with Chet and Rachael! Aaaaah, great way to end the day!

Overall, It was a very nice reunion!

And now I have to share this next story, its another embarrassing moment, but not for me.
(And I even have permission to blog about it!)
So, a couple weeks back Rachael drove her and her 4 kids all the way to Oklahoma to attend Chets graduation from boot camp. That is VERY long drive!
So, she made it there safely, attended the graduation, and was able to spend a couple days with Chet.
On her way home, she had made one of many stops at a gas station to fill up the vehicle and, she said she was SO tired and frazzled from the kids going nutty with their HOURS and hours of being cooped up in the car together. So, she fills up the gas and then she gets in and starts to leave. She sees in her mirror the gas station attendant RUNNING after her frantically waving his arms for her to stop!
She thinks “What? I paid!”
Come to find out that when she finished filling up her tank she took the nozzle out of her car, and thought she put it back in the pump, but instead put it right back in her car’s tank. So, she snapped the hose right off the tank. Thankfully it was one that was built to do snap off instead of RIP off and spray gas every where. So, she only had to pay $25 to the gas station.
While she was in the gas station taking care of this, chet called the cell phone, and their oldest daughter answers the phone. Chet starts taking to her, then asks for Rachael, and she tells him that she is “inside” and he says “Inside where?” And she says “the gas station”. And he asks why, and she replied that “Mom drove off with the gas hose”.
Well, Chet, after finding out it only cost them $25, laughed SO hard about this, and called this her “Ultimate Blond Moment”!!!

It’s moments like this that make life funny! Gives us all a reason to laugh, either at ourselves or at others, either way bringing laughter to everyone! :)
And laughter is the BEST MEDICINE!