The Baker Family Reunion

Every year in August Jim's mom's family has their reunion. This year was a little bit different, with more of the family passing away I think things are changing. We did the auction after lunch, which we usually do. We ended up buying a bunch of stuff from the auction just to raise some money. There were a lot of things that we were the only bidders. Now I understand why Jim's mom bought as much as she did, when she was alive. Someone has to help make it so they have enough money to do the reunion. They also had a kid raffle, they asked the families to bring an item for each child that was going to participate. This year there just weren't that many items, at least not enough that every kid could participate and possibly get something. After that no one wanted to play games. They let the kids dig in the sawdust for candy and money, that was okay.

Then they did the candy cannon, this was a big hit.

Ready, stand back and away it goes, candy flying through the air.

The kids had a lot of fun, they even tried shooting water balloons out of the candy cannon. The balloons kept splashing down just beyond where the kids were standing They even shot some of the water balloons out with the candy, but that was extremely messy.

Skylar waiting for the candy to fly

How many guys does it take to load and fire a candy cannon? They all wanted to fire it off.

Brennan whistling and watching.

Caitlin wanting some candy too! Please share!

Dalton looking for Mom and waiting for the candy to start flying.

Then a water balloon fight ensued, to finish using all of the water balloons that were filled. It was over as quickly as it had begun.