Tuesday, August 13, 2013

5th Annual Buckeye BBQ

In July, we hosted our traditional Buckeye BBQ.  This is for all of our great friends that we met in Ohio and who became our family!  

I decided to host the party this year at Southwood Park, which is a park just down the street from us and they have a brand new playground.   It was fun to do something different.   Jon did a ton of the work for me - he smoked pork for pulled pork sandwiches and I asked him to figure out a homemade slip-n-slide.   He did it all!

The weather was a little overcast that night, which was perfect for the adults, but a little cold for the kids trying to do the slide.  But, that didn't seem to stop them and I think they had a great time.

We LOVED that the Rasmussen's were in town as they were making their move to California (more on that in the next post).  We visited with them at our house for a little bit before dinner and then all headed over to the park.

We just love all of our friends!  They have the greatest kids and it's been so fun to watch families grow and kids grow up.  My sister, Becky, and her family was in town and my parents were back, so they all came too.  They know most of our friends really well too, so that makes for double the fun!

As the kids came down the slide, I tried to get a picture of most of them.  I know I missed several, but it's fun to see their cute faces (I'm so sorry if I get someone's name wrong - let me know!)

Lindsey - this crazy girl, Jack & Ethan Rasmussen posed for me each time they came down.
 



Jack
 




Hannah took a few tries to get the hang of the slide, but loved it!
 

Hannah
 

Lexie Hatch
 

Isaac Burt
 

Eliza Burt
 

Brynlee Rasmussen
 

Kaya Hatch
 

 
This is little Rex Treseder.  This cutie ran & slid down this slide over and over and over!  So cute!
 

Kallie Hatch

Gabri Hatch
 

Henry Dotson
 

Pete Dotson
 

Leah Nelson
 

Emma Nelson
 

Ethan Rasmussen - he did the best poses!
 

Hailey Rasmussen
 

Jake Mortensen - he'd just run down the whole slide and hardly ever slip.
 

Lexi Walker
 

Paisley Rasmussen & Hailey Bowen - in matching swimming suits by chance
 

Hannah helping Hailey
 

Brynlee helping Paisley & Hailey
 

Kirsten, me & Rachel
 

Cute baby McKinley Rasmussen
 

The 2 Haileys!
 


Heidi Hatch (due with baby boy in September), Kirsten Rasmussen, Jamie Treseder, me, Sarah Burt, Holly Dotson, Lisa Nelson (due with baby in November),  Jessika Wagner & Rachel Larson
 
 
Thank you to everyone for coming!  I missed a lot of the cute kids on the slide - including Kate.  Love you guys a ton!

2 comments:

quacks said...

So fun! Thank you for putting it all together Jeannette!! We love to come see everyone.
(The first is Lexie and you are right about Gabri :)

Angie (Drowns) Kelly said...

So fun!! It must be heaven to have so many great people in the same place!!! I can't wait to see so many in September!