Stone Family Reunion- Fishing

On the first day of the family reunion my family and Kristen Larsen's family got up at 5am and went fishing at Prosser Reservoir.

It was absolutely gorgeous at sunrise!

Ashley only wanted to use the power bait, she was not impressed with having to put the worms we bought on the hooks.

CJ was tired from going to bed super late and getting up at 5am, so he spent ALOT of time fishing from a sitting position.

The only thing I caught was CJ's fishing pole after he accidentally let go as he was casting. His line got caught on my hook and I reeled it in and was able to save his pole! It was awesome!


Who needs boys to go fishing?!? (sorry CJ)

Such a beautiful view!

Stone Family Reunion- Family Photos

The Kathalene Tunquist Family

The Gary & Vicki Stone Family

The Merrill & Nina Stone Family

The Great-Grandchildren

and you thought getting the great-grandchildren to sit still for the pictures was hard...

Calin YMCA Baseball

Calin loves baseball! And he's good at it too! He had his team's practice on Tuesday night and then went to Ashley's team's practice on Wednesday and practiced with the older kids too. He even filled in on game day with Ashley's team if we didn't have enough players... and he was just as good as the older kids.

Calin is just too cute!

His team was so fun to watch play.

Grandpa & Grandma Smith came to many of the games and took pictures for us. Thanks for the support!

Calin just came from running home, he is such a good player!

Ashley YMCA Baseball

We had fun playing baseball. It was all of our first times (Ash, CJ, and mine- I was Ashley's team's Coach).

She is adorable!

There were 6 kids on the team, but only 4 showed up for pictures

It was coach pitch baseball and I was able to talk Mike into pitching for me, he was fantastic!

He also filled in as a 1st base coach. Ashley loved being able to talk to her dad during the games.

Pixie Woods

Going to Pixie Woods with the family is always so much FUN!

Calin, Kaylee, Ashley, Kade, Addy, Auston, Stetson, Lexi, & Bryce

Riding the train. Uncle Jared, Stetson, & CJ

Hi Mom!

Waiting for our turn on the boat.

Bryce, Addy, Ashley, Kaylee, Lexi

Girls just wanna have fun!

Addy, Kaylee, Ashley, Lexi, Aunt Starlene

Calin Graduated from Kindergarten!

CJ loved his first year of school! He always wanted to be the first in line every morning (several of the kids did) so by the end of the year he had us leaving for school a 1/2 hour early so he could be first. He would stand there patiently as one child after another showed up. His teacher Mrs. Swehla-Garcia was fantastic.

Here are a few pics from the year:

Calin's Class

Doing math with valentines heart candy. (I would've liked math as much as he does if we got to do it with candy... we just had colored squares of paper! ... and we had to walk in the snow uphill both ways... and that's before shoes were invented!)

Pajama Day

100th day of school, making necklaces with 100 Cheerios and fruit loops.

Pumpkin day. This was the only day i went to help in the classroom. The teacher gave each team a pumpkin and we got to be scientists! We got to measure, weigh, see if it floats or sinks (pumpkins float- i had no idea!), and cut it open and get all gooey while counting all of the seeds. We ended the day with pumpkin pie! This year was fantastic!

Ashley Graduated 3rd Grade!

Alas, Ashley graduated from yet another year of school... every time she does i get older and older. This was one of her favorite years, she loved her teacher Mr. Delgado, she got to go to "Valley Days", and learned about her mom's favorite subject- the solar system.

Here are some of the highlights of the year:

Her ancestry doll (thank you Grandma Stone for all your help!)

Her report on Johnny Appleseed

Self portrait

And last but not least... her science project. A board game about the solar system. It had facts about all the planets and then you got to move your piece (a rock- Calin so kindly offered from his "fancy rocks" collection) the number of places that planet is from the sun. It is actually quite fun to play!