Thursday, July 05, 2007

First Annual "K" Tennis Invitational

Happy 4th of July to everyone!
Today was the big day . . . the first annual tennis invitational for the "K" side of the family! We all met this morning atthe Terrace Park Swim and Tennis Club. My cousin Julie is a member at the club and they were kind enough to let the 30 of us in all day today!
Sam, Julia and Marika getting things rolling! We were split into teams . . .a strong player with a weak player. Julia was my teammate . . . I was the weaker link . . . sorry Julia you got stuck with me :-)
Mari and Michelle!
Joe and Steph Jamie and TravisTodd and SamDad and TaylorMarika and NathanAshley and RayLet the games begin . . .!!!


The spectators
My cousin Julie brought hoola hoops so we had a hoola hoop contest for the little cousins not playing tennis.


I didn't get a picture of Shelby who was the winner because I was playing tennis during the contest.
Water break!Dad and Taylor . . . .Jamie and Travis made it to the FINALS
Dad and Taylor won the first part . . . but it was double elimination because Travis and Jamie were undefeated . .. so they played again!



Jamie and Travis won set 1, set 2 and set3
and . . . .
and . . . . .
Until they WON the whole thing!


Congratulations Jamie and Travis . .. 2007 winners of the First Annual "K" Invitational!

After tennis most of us headed home to get showers. Aunt Diane and Uncle Jim invited the whole group to their house for dinner.


After dinner my cousin Julie passed out awards . . I wish I would of grabbed the paper with all the names of the awards but I forgot . . . at least I have pictures!





Shelby won 10 dollars for the hoola hoop contest!









To Uncle Jim, Aunt Diane, Ray, Mari, Marika and Jamie, Russell, Julie, Julia and Sam and of course Kaley!
We all want to thank you for hosting the First Annual "K" Reunion! We had the best time. You all were the perfect hosts! Thank you for opening your homes to all of us. Thank you for making each passing hour a blast! We all have created some wonderful memories! Thank you for bringing this to past! We can't wait to do it again!
Love, Todd, Steph and Family, Emily and the kids, Joe, Michelle and the kids and Patty and Tom!

6 comments:

Kathy in WA said...

What a lovely time! How fun to gather with family. The tennis matches looked like a great time. Congrats to all the winners. :)

jennifer said...

Emily,

You are building such fantastic memories with your family! Great pictures... it looks like lots of fun!

jen in michigan from SHS

Cynthia said...

WHAT FUN! We don't have enough family on either side to warrant an all out family reunion (LOL), but it sure looks like FUN!

Emily said...

Kathy . . .are you home? If so welcome back! We had a great time!

Jen . . .it was a blast!

Cindy . . we had so much fun we are already talking about next year!

Anonymous said...

Emily What a great time all of you had. All the pictures from Tennessee and the ones in the first annual K reunion are great. I can see that all of you had a wonderful time. I hope that you will have a good time in your next trip with Carlos, Landon and Sierra.Love Mom.

Emily said...

Mom - we had the best time with you, Dad and the whole gang. We created some fun memories that we will all never forget!