This year for our Family Get-Away..we tried out a new town...we wanted to give every town a chance to host the Buck-Hart Holiday Happenings!
Ludington was the lucky town!
We arrived on Friday staying for 2 nights. This is the first year, in quite sometime, we haven't been there for New Years Eve! It was just the way the holidays fell this year..that we choose to go the week-end between.
On Friday night, we (the Buckners) went to El Rancho. The Isenharts went to Applebees!
Can you see Steve in the picture....
Steve & his Daddy-O! (turn down the shirt!)
One of our dear friends from Kent City moved to Ludington quite a years ago.
The girls took a trip over to Susan's to catch up!
She is such a lovely lady..she has had some recent health issue but has such a positive attitude! She is basically home bound. If you think of it, pray for Susan, it has to be hard to not be able to get out! We enjoyed some good laughs with her! She is a gem!
When we came back we found this....
....and this
and the guys taking over the pool area! They were playing football...hogging the whole pool!
SATURDAY NIGHT
We always have pizza first and then we start FFF. This year we played Minute to Win it Games! We divide up the teams by random drawing. We have 71 to 11 year olds playing!
This game: stack 3 golf balls a top each other....needless to say no one could make it happen ( I think the tables are too wobbly for this kind of game!)
(Nikki, Carrie, Maddie & Kristi)
....a straw, 3 nuts and a ping pong ball...stack them up, leaving the ping long ball to rest on the straw.
(Dave got this first!!)
(Mike, Trent, Karen & Dave)
"Christmas Ornament Conveyor"
You work as a team of 2, moving ornaments to the other player.
Drew & Reece successfully moved their 6 ornaments along the "conveyor"
From left: (Steve, Neil , Drew, Carrie, Jordan, Reece, Jim & Wes)
an action shot....
"Baby Blocks"
Stack 5 blocks on a plate balanced on your head.
Renee was first!
(Bonnie, Nic, Renee & Lynette)
"The Elephant March"
you swing your "trunk" (a baseball in a pair of hose) to knock over water bottles.
Jim & Darica racing to the finish line!
Darica beat her Dad!
Trent & I did this for our team too! I beat him!
We had 2 Euchre tourneys after this...we were up till 2 am both nights!! ( Little Trent took 2nd place after Steve & Drew tied for first...making G-pa Bill proud!!!)
We had a Fun Fun time together! It was a great hotel for our festivities! We had a separate "conference room" to carry on and make as much noise as we wanted to! We have been getting together for close to 20 years now....What family memories we have created! The kids (at least mine) have such fond memories of going to the hotel! I'm glad we can all get together as family and have fun together.....not all families can do this! We enjoy seeing each other and look forward to this trip every year! This year we had a special guest...little Caleb....Danielle and Wes's little guy! He's 5 months old..we are starting on the next generation...
