Armour Family Reunion

Every other year, my Grandma's family tries to have a family reunion. The last few years it has been in California. This year, they decided to bring a little bit closer to the Utah families. So we settled on meeting in the middle, in St. George. Now, if you know me well, you might understand that although I absolutely love spending time with this side of the family, I was not looking forward to the reunion. St. George, in June? No thank you! I HATE HEAT! :) I must really love my Armour family members if I was willing to brave the 100+ degree weather for them. Our family drove down a day early so we could see Tarzan at Tuacahn. It was a fabulous show and we had a great time. My grandma enjoyed meeting Kerchek after the show the best. She thought he was cute. The next night my cousin had arranged for us all to go to a baseball game. We had box seats right next to the visiting teams dugout. I don't think they get huge groups reserving their box seats often, so the team manager came over to introduce himself and make sure we were having a good time. In case the picture with Kerchek didn't give you a clue, my Grandma has turned into quite the flirt in her old age. So, she flirted with the manager a little, and let him know that we were all dragging this 85 year old around with us. He thought she was fabulous. So, he had he announcer welcome our family and especially Donna Klenk, who is 85, over the PA system.

(Sorry for the sideways video - I forget you can't rotate it)

We had a fabulous time dancing to the music, well, mostly watching Grandma dance to the music.

At the end of the game, the manager brought some of the team members over to meet this 85 year old grandma who came to their game. They also gave her a baseball signed by all the team members, that is now proudly displayed in her living room. In order to get to the box seats, you had to go down through the basement, which meant walking past the team locker rooms. We were visiting after the game, so we left a little bit late. I don't think the team members were expecting anyone in the basement, so as we started walking through, one of the players came out with just a towel wrapped around him. Immediately my dear, sweet Grandmother called out to him to come over. Knowing her flirting skills, and her slightly innappropriate humor, I was REALLY worried about what was going to happen next, and was wishing the earth would just open up and swallow me whole. My entire family was DYING - just knowing that she was going to make some comment about his towel, or even de-towel him! Thankfully, she just wanted to see the tattoo that he had and we quickly ushered her up the stairs! Never a dull moment with our Grandma! The next morning we were up bright and early for a side trip to Zions. I loved what we saw in the morning. But by noon I was feeling the heat and was ready to be done! We all met for lunch at the lodge, and then decided to take one last hike before leaving. The hike itself, was not difficult, but I was SO HOT and miserable - I have never been so happy to see water dripping from the rock so I could cool myself off! Zions is beautiful - but next time I am definately going in October or November! :) On our last night we had an "Unbirthday Party" and everyone brought a $10 gift for a gift exchange. I had put together an "Armour Family's Got Talent" video, with serious and funny talents as displyed by different family members. We spent the afternoon before the party at the dollar stores buying silly prizes to award to everyone in the show. One of the videos was of my Grandma flirting with my cousin's husband, so we gave Doug the "He-Man" award. The best video of the night was Lauren's interpretive dance to Don't Stop Belivin' - which she performed and recorded on her computer a few years ago - as in - after her mission. If you haven't had the good fortune of seeing this fabulous video - it's similar to this:

We gave her a tinkerbell ribbon baton for her award. After the party we were all talking in my parents room and my mom decided to demonstrate the baton. She got a little excited and I got a little too close, and well, I got hit in the face by my own mother. Haha, what an ending to our trip! My Grandma and her brothers - any craziness in our family comes directly from them!