Riggan Reunion 2010

We went back to Iowa last weekend for the Riggan Family Reunion. Justin and I got in Thursday night and Dave flew in to meet us on Friday.

Grandma brought Hayden to the airport to pick up me and Justin. It was his first trip to the airport. She has some video of him where he keeps saying "I'm excited" as they are waiting for the plane to fly in. He did not stop talking the entire way home. For a two-year old this kid has quite the vocabulary.

On Friday morning, Hayden kept asking to hold Justin and almost every time we put him in his lap- he started crying.

Saturday morning we headed to Kalona to ride on the Riggan parade float. Justin was a trooper - it was hot and we had to sit on that trailer for quite some time. We had 109 Riggan's on the float!

Justin took a little nap while we were waiting to move:

After the parade we headed out to the campground. Everything was muddy due to the rain on Friday and we were all a mess by the time we stepped out of the car- but we all had a great time. There were several other babies there- the newest one was cousin Jill's baby girl, Jade. Look how big Justin is compared to her! She is just 6lbs!

He loved hanging out in the pack-n-play under the tree.

Mom had a onesie made for Justin so that he had a Reunion shirt too. I loved it! And she was smart enough to make two of them..we used them both!

Lily roasting some marshmallows:

We were all a mess- but we were all together so had to get a group shot:

I hear there were 130 people in this photo and 171 who made it out at some point during the weekend. We had a sign-in book so we could keep track. It's quite the family!

Here is the original family photo - which was used to create the drawing for our Reunion T-shirts. My dad is the little guy standing next to Grandpa Riggan. I love this photo and am proud to be part of this family!