Petrucka Family Reunion, December 28th - January 3rd

A few days after Christmas we had a visit from David's brother Mark and his family from Alabama. On New Years Eve we had a big Polish feast together at the church, took pictures, played games, and had a talent show. It was so much fun!

This is Jennifer, Emily, and Mary doing chin faces up-side-down for the talent show. It was pretty funny.

On New Years Day Mark's family, Page, David and the four older kids went snow tubing in Provo canyon. We had so much snow that week, it was perfect, but VERY cold! You could connect the tubes together to go down together and faster, then a lift would take you back up. They had lots of fun and came home utterly exhausted!
Here's Page and Adam excited with anticipation!

Joy and Mary, waiting for the go ahead to start snow tubing!

Emily and Mary passing the time.

Lydia and Brandon ready to go! Looks like a beautiful day!

The next day, Sunday, Hazel was finally feeling comfortable with all the new faces, and was running back and forth to Mark and Page hugging their legs. They were thrilled!

This is what the boys Adam, Bryce, and Brandon did with a lot of their time together, play the Wii and the DS. Why are boys so much more drawn to playing computer/Nintendo games?

We braved it one night and had Jennifer and Megan sleep over with Mary and Emily. The four had a blast together and were very well behaved!

Here's our five with Mark and Cindy's four. We love them all and are so happy they are such close cousins.

The night before they had to go home, we had a birthday party for Mark. Here, the kids are enjoying rootbeer floats, a Poppop classic!

Lydia very quickly had her Uncle Mark wrapped around her finger! With no kids her age to play with from his family, Mark gave her lots of attention which she soaked right up! She was very sad when they had to leave the next day.

Joy and Natalie. Cheers!

Mark took advantage of the situation and fed Hazel some icecream.

Hazel and Joseph. So Cute!

Back at our house, Hazel decided to cuddle up with her Aunt Page. She stayed like that for a good 15 minutes, very content, and so was Page!!

This is on Tuesday the 5th of January, the day Page had to head back to Texas. Mary was in the play Taming of the Shrew and she was thrilled our very own professional in the family could come see her!