Family Reunion

Over Labor Day weekend my entire Harding family got together for the first time in possibly 10 or so years. My grandparents are getting pretty frail so my aunts put together a dinner to get everyone together.

On Saturday my dad and I rode up to Pocatello with my sister Erin and her three kids. The first day there Erin and I met up with my aunt Heidi and went to our favorite store Costco and visited with my Grandma Helmandollar who I also haven't seen since Emily's wedding almost a year ago. I stayed in a hotel room with Erin and her kids and Bryce and Cade were so excited. They were jumping all over the place and going crazy because they love staying in "hoentels."

Harper on the way up to Idaho. I can't get over how precious she is.

My cute grandma immediately took Harper as soon as we came in the door. 

Sunday we went to church with my grandparents then went back to their house and Emily, David, and my mom showed up. Later on we met up with my family and caught up on all the years that had past. If we didn't have social media I probably wouldn't even know what most of them look like. We are so fortunate this day in age to be able to follow each other's lives through the internet. Most of my cousins now are married with kids.

Sometimes I feel the same way during church.

My grandparents are just the sweetest. They loved that everyone could get together and were just shocked with made it happen. I loved seeing how happy they were.




We finally have an updated picture of almost all of the grandchildren together. We were missing a few but most of us were there and we are definitely way more grown up in this one than in the last. It's crazy that a majority has kids of their own now.

Almost my entire family altogether. It was seriously the best getting to catch up with everyone.

On Sunday night Emily and David came back to the hotel with us to go swimming. This was the first
time Harper had been swimming and we put her in a swimming suit and she was the cutest little thing I have ever seen! (There's a Full House quote for you). The next day we all got up and met up with mom's sisters and went shopping and to lunch and got caught up with them.

    

I can't think of a better way to spend my Labor day then in Idaho with my family. I wish I could find time to make it out there more often.

Football Season!

This is seriously the best and my most favorite time of the year. The way that Lorelai in Gilmore Girls feels about snow in the winter is exactly how I feel about football season in the fall. I love that so many people come together for the sole purpose of supporting the same thing. It's a time when I happen to run into quite a few people I went to school with and see friends that I haven't seen in a while. Also standing in the stadium when Swoop rides through the field on the motorcycle and the football players follow is one of the best feelings ever.

On September 3rd Utah kicked off the start of their season with a game against Michigan. This was a huge game to have in Utah and it was even the second most in demand ticket for college football that week. This year Emily and I actually became official season ticket holders, but we have been selling our tickets for those seats while we can still be in the MUSS.

Emily is on the MUSS board this year so she got killer seats on the front row, as for me I joined a huge group of friends just a few rows up. It's not front row but it's definitely still amazing!

 

This group is so much fun to be a part of. We were all in a group my junior year and I am so happy I get to be with them again! It took us 3 tries to get a good picture, but eventually we got one with all of us smiling.

The best is at the end when the football players come to the MUSS and sing the fight song with us! We beat Michigan 24-17 and Utah State 24-14. Sadly I don't have any pictures from that game!