Ed's Family Reunion/Jaren & Ed's Birthdays

PALMER FAMILY REUNION

June 18 - 23, 2010

This is what the weather was like when most of the family arrived. Yes... there were tornado watches all around the area!

We met up with family at the hotel on Friday evening.

Jaren and his BFF, Brittan! The last time they were here (Thanksgiving) he was so attached to her and asked about her for weeks after she went back home!

Oliver and Brittan

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Picnic at the park... Derek and Finny

Natalie and Eden

Gabe, Brittan and Jaren

Trying to get the ball out of the tree...

Playing catch with the football.

Finny and Uncle Eric

Brittan and Jaren... of course!

Janene and Carina

The family

Eden

Ed's youngest brother, Danny, his wife, Jamie and Carson.

Playin' ball

Eden, Rachel and Natalie

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Playing "Just Dance" on the Wii with Uncle Danny

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Dad and Ollie

Finny

Derek and Eden blowing bubbles.

Carina, Gabe and

Jaren, Ollie and Gabe wrestling.

Derek, Lydia and Jaren

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THE PHOTO SHOOT

BOTH babies crying! I LOVE this pictures! Their cousins were GREAT with them!

Gabe tending to Finn during the grandkid photo.

Brittan and Jaren... yet again!

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Ed and I at the couples date night at Tokyo.

"Choo-choo!"

At the hotel.

June 22, 2010 -- Jaren's 3rd Birthday! We were so busy with other things we didn't give him a proper birthday. He doesn't eat cake or ice cream anyhow! At least when you are three you don't remember! WE LOVE YOU, BEAR!!!

Look at that sweet face!

Aunt Janene, Jaren, Ed and Finn

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ED'S 32nd BIRTHDAY at MULLIGAN'S

We went out to celebrate Ed's birthday with just our little family and had some pizza. We had some cake and ice cream when we got home.

Jaren looks like he's in pain in this one!

Jaren - 3

Eden - 7

Oliver - 8

Ed and the birthday hat!!! :O)

Snow Storm & J C Penney Family Portaits

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Today we woke up to find that it had been snowing throughout the night and was still snowing. I had a doctor's appointment with my family doctor and so Ollie and Ed traveled down to Iowa City in the horrible weather. Later on he called and told me that he almost went off the road a few times and had we not had plans he would have definitely stayed overnight down there.

J C Penney had donated a family portrait package to us and we were desperate to get some family photos taken as we had never had professional family pictures before. Cooper Image and Design also gave us some special deals and we had a session set up for the following day, but since Oliver's hair was starting to fall out, we were scrambling to try and get them taken ASAP since it was falling out so quickly and so much. Cooper was closed today so we decided to call Sears and our friend got us in and took our photos. We opted to all wear Iowa Hawkeyes T-shirts and khaki pants, even our little 7 week old was outfitted to match the rest of the family! He got some great shots of the kids individually, some with Oliver and each child and some family shots as well.

We kept our appointment with Cooper for tomorrow evening and decided that we would shave Ollie's hair following the photo shoot. We had originally planned on having a head shaving party on Thursday, but due to him losing it so quickly we had to switch things around. We were sooooooooo grateful to J C Penney Portrait Studio as well as Cooper Image and Design for opening their hearts to us and giving us a gift to treasure for many years. If anyone knows me, they know I LOVE pictures (I've dubbed myself the 'Palmer-azzi" since I always have a camera in hand) and so this REALLY did mean a lot to me to have this done. I don't know how people do it every year! It was hard coordinating outfits and moods!!! :O) THANK YOU again for your generosity!