Monday, May 24, 2010

Grief Family Reunion in Oklahoma City

It has been over a year since the whole Grief family has been together. Jon's brother and his family live in Virginia, Ken and Jeanie (Jon's parents) live in Kansas and, as you know, we are in Oklahoma. We get to see Jon's parent's fairly often, but to all be together is very difficult! Jamie and Anne and their family were going to Kansas for a visit and we decided to all meet together in Oklahoma City for the weekend. It was fun to get to see everyone and catch up on all that has been going on in each household. It is especially fun to see the kids and how they have grown! The kids had such a great time together!

He only got a little wet...

While at dinner there was a guy roaming the restaurant making balloon creations for the kids. Nathaniel got a motorcycle. Ben was in the bathroom at the time so all he ended up with was a 'worm'! HA HA!!

Emily and Abby got flowers (obviously) and Katie got a giraffe!

Headed to the riverwalk.

Ben and Nathaniel couldn't get enough of each other! What one did, the other did too!

"Look at the ducks!"

Katie and Abby couldn't get enough of each other either!

So happy to be together again!


Ken and Jeanie are happy to have all of their kids and grandkids together again!

The kids couldn't resist rolling down this hill!! They all did it!!

One of these days I AM going to get to go on a carriage ride!

HA HA HA!!!

Three generations of Grief boys!

POOL TIME!!
Luke wasn't so sure about getting in the pool...


Oklahoma City Zoo!!
"Random bugs and stuff" (Ben)
Ready...Set...GO!!

Father and son!


This just might have been Luke's favorite part of the zoo! He LOVES the movie "Nemo" right now, so to see real live "Nemos" up close was pretty exciting!

All of the kids! Yes, they're all there! (Emily is hiding behind Katie.)

Luke is SUPER happy to be out of his stroller!

These two are pretty fond of each other!

Kings of the mountain!

Emily was beyond happy to be on the elephant all by herself!!

Emily, Katie and Nathaniel

A little bit of friendly wrestling.


Trying to get a quick picture of the kids before heading off to dinner.

The view from our room! NICE!!

Luke and Emily were watching Toy Story while we finished getting things ready to go. Just thought this was too cute!

The riverwalk is SO beautiful right now so we headed down to there to take some family pictures.
It's almost impossible to get everyone to look/smile at the same time! (Luke was completely exhausted from our busy weekend! I don't think there is a great picture of him in any of our group shots!)

The other Grief family

Grandma and Grandpa with all of their grandkids!

Both Grief families

ALL of the Grief's!

Miss Emily

Abby & Katie

Nathaniel and Ben

Lukey Luke

So sweet!

Who knows when we will all be together again, but for now we have some fun memories and great pictures to hold onto!

3 comments:

Pat said...

Great pictures!! Looks like you had a good time. Lot of activity for such a short period of time. The little bit of zoo looks nice.

Anonymous said...

I can see who was behind the camera for most of the trip. :O) What a fun weekend for all of you. It's kinda funny to see the kids all together as you can def. tell they are realated!

Anonymous said...

oops that's related not realated...