Saturday morning we headed over to the fertility clinic and thought we were in the wrong place at first. It looked deserted as we rounded the corner to the clinic, but they had blocked off the whole parking lot for the event. I heard they had around 300 people show up! I've never seen so many strollers in one place. We were welcomed by staff and stopped by several vendor tables. Then we registered for the door prizes before going under the deck to chat & get food. I got a chance to quickly speak to both of the doctors that helped us and walk around looking at all the lovely little babies! There were mostly singleton babes like Jax but there were plenty of twins and pregnant women plus a couple sets of triplets! There were some fun things for the older kids like a moonbounce and a train. The event was catered so we had burgers and hotdogs. Best of all, I won one of the door prizes! A $100 Visa giftcard!!
From there, we headed to Pilot Mountain for the family reunion. We stopped at a scenic overlook to grab a few pics...
Once we got checked into our hotel, we headed over to Uncle Bobby's for a cookout. Jaxon is fully into the 'men are scary' mode now and would have nothing to do with any of my male relatives, even Grandpa and my brother. He let any of my female relatives hold him.. oh well. The actual reunion was on Sunday which had a lot larger attendence. I don't know exactly how many people we had at the reunion, but Bobby did say our family is now up to something like 108 living decendants on this branch of the family tree! Wow! It was great to see so many family members especially since I'd not been to the reunion in a few years. One of my uncles was already down in Texas for disaster-related work (and another headed down there on Monday) so I hated we missed seeing him. But those of us who could make it all had a good time. There was lots of food, a door prize (one of Bobby's carvings), tons of visiting, and nice weather. All in all, a great weekend.
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