
On our first night in Utah, I had this dream I was at the park with some of my students (from London). Two of them ran up and said to Jon and me, "We're rather partial to Panda. Is he coming to play today?" We asked who Panda was and they told us it was Jon's brother Andrew, who we had apparently brought to play with them on some other day. Dream Jon and Jess thought this was very funny.
I was so tickled by the idea of calling Andrew "Panda" that I told him about it first thing the next morning. Pretty soon all the nieces and nephews were calling Andrew, Panda and it was glorious.
The doodle below is one I did for Andrew. Andrew (obviously being Panda) is taking down a double double from In-and-out and Jon is a fat unicorn (which Jon has a strange affinity for), passed out from eating too much chocolate ice cream.


Just as the grandparents were about the call the official opening of the reunion, we had a bit of a plumbing disaster in the laundry room. Whilst some of the more responsible grown ups took care of the problem, the rest of us put our nephews in boxing gear and watched them go at each other.
It was probably the most entertaining thing I've seen in awhile, especially when we put Clay against Lincoln. Things suddenly went from being fun and silly, to REAL serious, REAL fast.
These girls adore their Aunt Lisa. We're so lucky she's in our family now!

The Youngs have a rather large repertoire of reunion songs that I have still yet to learn. To the outsider, some these songs can be rather *ahem* surprising, such as one that describes jumping "in-between the sheets with nothing on at all" and another where someone steals a swimmers underwear.
But undeterred by the in-laws (that come in with eyebrows raised high in surprise), everyone sings at full volume, with actions and dance move at the ready.
Then there's Tom, what a stud! He is so great to encourage Ryan's love of the trumpet, even letting him slobber all over his instrument. He is the best in the house with the nieces and nephews. Seriously, ladies... this boy! Snatch him up before someone else does!!









Since the official beginning of the reunion was on the 24th of July (which is Pioneer day-- a state holiday in Utah), there were fireworks! Lucky everyone in town was also doing fireworks so we got quite a show.
What a lucky girl am I to have married in to such a beautiful, quirky, fun family! Check back in tomorrow to see part two of our Young family reunion.
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