Miles Reunion

My family came up from California for the Miles Family Reunion.  We've all been to many, many Clegg reunions but I'm not sure we've ever had a Miles Reunion.  It was nice to see, meet, and hang out with some of Grandma Veva's family.  There was an excellent turn out and everybody had a great time.  Not to mention, some really yummy food!  
Evan loves baby Corbyn (Marsha's baby) and I do too.  We both took lots of turns holding him.  

Emry took turns holding Corbyn too.  She's practicing for the baby brother she'll be getting sometime around Christmas. 

Friday before the Reunion Jess, Karen, Marsha and I (and our moms, grandma and kids) went shopping at a few craft stores.  We hauled the kids around with us and reminisced about our parents doing the same thing to us.  

 At the reunion the boys got their faces painted.


 I didn't get any pictures of the human family tree but that was pretty cool.  Here is my mom with all of her Miles Cousins.
 Dixie (pictured in the back of the below photo) made a cool pinata for the kids.  They had a BLAST trying to crack that thing open.
Here's Landyn taking his turn. 

That's Ryder

and Kali

There's Evan


and Ryan

Trying to capture the fact that this was probably the LAST hit and the kids were physically being held back because they were dying to get the candy.  

Letting the kids dive in.  

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