Hanging out with the long-lost Lopez Gang

Once upon a time, a long time ago (I'd say about five years ago), we used to gather at Aunt Rhonda's house once a week for Scrumptious Sunday Dinner.  By "we" I mean a bunch of us Merrill cousins and our kiddos.  Yeah, we were total leeches :).  This tradition stopped after we moved ourselves to Utah (duh).  Now we're back and everyone's life is going busily in every direction, so I get stuck making our Sunday dinner every week for our own family (really, it's not as much fun as you'd think). 

Sadly, we rarely get to visit those awesome Lopezes (I have no idea how to pluralize that name).  So when we were invited to a BBQ last Saturday at Ernie and Rhonda's house, I screamed "YES!" and did a happy dance.  I'm still not 100% sure that I didn't invite myself, but let's move past that.

This little party was exceptionally special because we got to meet the newest additions to the Lopez family tree.  First of all, Seth and Emily's tiny new guy Cory.  I was a dork and didn't think to snap a picture of this handsome fella until after we had left.  But I did get one of his proud parents.

Secondly, we got to meet our sweet cousin Leah's fiance.

Nope, I didn't get a pic of them either.  I really am quite pathetic.

We spent a small amount of time eating, and the majority watching the kiddos swim.

Let's be honest here- they didn't do that much swimming.  Mostly, they did a lot of jumping.

And Wyatt did a lot of envious staring.

The Daddies found a fun new sport called "Throw Your Children into the Pool".  And they rocked at it.

Wyatt finally got daring enough to sit on the pool step (he may or may not have already fallen in while chasing a ball).

As you can tell, I once again took all of the pictures on my old-school iPhone.  The sad part: I even had my camera with me.  But it was inside and the action was happening now.

Oh, and the flash is kinda broken, and I'm too afraid to use the camera in case I discover something else on it is also broken...

And I don't want to hear any comments about me and my camera care, got it?