SOME LIKE IT HOT : Part 1

welcome to part 1 of the "my family is crazy and i love them" series!!!

get excited...

from july 5-8th, the 2 parents, 10 children, 6 in-laws, and 12 grand kids rented out a bed and breakfast just outside of lava hot springs in IDAHO. And... wow... did we have fun!

these pictures are only from the first night and next morning when we were given our custom designed t-shirts. our theme for the reunion was "some like it hot" with the 10 reasons to be a DuPaix on the back. it's ok if you are a wee bit jealous that you will not be adding this to your closet. ;)

the first night we had dinner and sarah led us in the opening of our time capsule from Dec. 31, 2000. we decided now would be the best time to open it because we don't know when we will all be together again. we were supposed to put in an object and we filled out a questionnaire about how the world would change in the next ten years, and a table with the name's of the kids on one side, and a bunch of questions about each one along the top. (name of person they would marry, job, would they have a degree, how many children, etc.) we had a blast reading what we wrote and yelling out names of future spouses and if we were correct or not. my mom had also taken pictures of us that night and locked them in. we laughed a lot over those. kyle was a little worried at what my 15 1/2 year old self looked like, the things that i had written down AND probably the fact that he remembered that he was just shy of 21 at that time. can we say illegal? ha ha ha...

anyway, after the chaos died down and we tried to forget how love-birdy meri/shane and jeannie/brent were being engaged at the time, sarah pulled out a new, 3 page questionnaire for us to answer and open up in 10 years. should be fun to read!

stay tuned to read about our talent show, donut eating contest, candy bar game, lava hot springs Olympic water park, and many other thing we packed into 3 days!

Back of our t-shirts:

close-up of the front logo... sorry meri, that's your boob! :
joe, monica, and bryson:


crazy kitchen:


meri and shane:

dad, debbie, and meri :

kyle and deakon:

preview of some of the pics that will be in the new time capsule.

ethan:

jackson and cooper:

5 boys, age 2 and under,

judson, luke, ethan, deakon, and cooper:

mom and ethan:

time-capsule-time:

filling our the new questionnaires:

apparently more filling out.... repeat... sorry:

john, laughing at his picture:

Stake and mom checking out the old pics:

sarah and danny:

just a preview of our family fund:

meri and shane made up a song about the reunion:

dad and bryson:

ethan, brent, noah, and jeannie waiting for things to start:

debbie and luke:

joe and monica

t.j. and jackson

becca, maddy, and sarah