Smith Family Reunion

This weekend we headed to Carmel, Indiana for the Smith family reunion.  Technically it was a destination reunion since no one in the family actually lives there.  The town is quite classy; it has a public waterpark, where Dad, Mark, and I took the girls for a few hours.

It was great to see the fam.  It'd been over a year since Erica and I saw the Carlsons, more than three years since we'd seen the Freers, and the poor Gazleys we hadn't seen since our wedding.  Here's the cousins photo to prove I'm not lying:

Not Pictured: Adam Freer

Unbelievably, this is the only good picture we managed to get with just James and the girls.

Finally, a real cousin!

We stopped by Danville on the way home to see mom and dad's new lake house.  They are to be congratulated on their awesome new digs.  I can see spending many a' future weekend there worrying about James falling off that rickety pier.

Speaking of the boy, he was very good during the long car rides, which bodes well for our trip to California in a couple of weeks.  He even woke up 45 minutes before we got back to Chicago and just chewed coolly on a towel for the remainder of the ride (Erica just slept through the whole thing).

Total car miles of trip: 441

--Grant