Mastadon PFW Basketball Camp

 Cooper attended the Mastadon Purdue Fort Wayne Basketball Camp this year with his friend Noah.  He truly had a blast and loves the sport.  He got to know some of the PFW players and was so excited to get their autographs.  Fun week for Cooper!

Cooper is front and center, cheering hard!

Summer Prep Team

 Kaylee joined the Autumn Ridge Prep Swim Team this year. She loved it so much.  She is absolutely adorable and is loving all the coaches.  Its been a great time to learn to swim this year!

Cub Scouts Veteranary Field Trip

 We took the cub scouts to the vet for a field trip to see what an animal hospital is like.  Lots of fun!

Coop Sparrow

Cooper got all made up and created a wig to look like pirate Captain Jack Sparrow.  He looks a lot like him!!

Tin Caps Baseball Camp Out

 We went to the Fort Wayne Tin Caps Baseball game with the Elliott family.  It was Scout Night, and after the game we set up tents and slept on the baseball field!! Nate took home Dawson & Nathan, but Jax, Coop & Kay and I stayed the night.  They put a movie on the jumbotron and we had a really great time camping on the Tin Caps Field!

Kaylees Dance Recital

Kaylee was in her first dance recital. She started dance in January, a jazz class with a couple other cute girls. They learned a routine to funky town by Alvin and the Chipmunks. She was nervous but excited and loved going to her jazz class is. We weren't allowed back into the dance floor, but we could watch her on a TV screen in the studio lobby. She was always jumping around having a great time.

When recital time came around, she was nervous for the dress rehearsal. There were two dress rehearsals to prepare for the actual recital. So through practicing at that rehearsals, she was confident and excited. Onstage she was so darn cute. She shit her little hips and smiled so big. She said she was not scared at all. I am so proud of her. I'm glad she has such confidence and we enjoyed helping her have this experience.

Cub Scout Day Camp

Jaxton & Cooper went to cub scout day camp with Ryan & Nate Elliot.  It was pirate themed and lots of fun with friends!

Some of Jaxton's commentary about camp:

Memorial Day Reunion

We hosted the first annual memorial day family reunion. It was a multi extended family reunion including the Gwinup side of the family as well as grandma greats sister Marion's whole family tree. We counted about 50 people altogether that came to our house. It was a great gathering and so fun to mingle with everyone present.  The families that were there included:

Gwinnup Family:

Stacey Fry and 3 boys

Jane Cox and 4 boys

Marion Routsong's tree:

Greg

Annie

Cari, husband and daughter

Brett, wife and 2 kids

1 more brother

Martha Routsong tree:

Bill & Linda Routsong

Nate, Tara, 5 kids

Mike, Kim, 6 kids 

Melissa, John, Madison & Jace

Beth, Abe, 3 kids

What a fun gathering. We had some crazy water balloon fight and the kids Doug in a huge pile of sawdust for quoins. That was a tradition when Nate's family was young and we wanted to bring that tradition back. We plan to have this be an annual family reunion in every memorial day.

Ryan, Maddy, Dawson, Mike & Kim

Cari & her daughter, Christin & Kaylee

Cari playing ring toss

Nate, Grandma Linda & Little Nathan

Grandma Linda & Christin

Cooper, Jack & Ryan

Digging for coins: Christin & Beth, Grandma with Scarlet the dog, Kaylee, Little Nathan, Cooper

Cooper spent days after Memorial Day digging in the sawdust!

Grandma Linda, Kim, Ryan, Little Nathan &n Dawson with Nate, Cooper, Christin

Great Aunt Marion (Martha's sister) in the center with her grandaughter Cari & great granddaughter

Great Aunt Marion, Cari & her daughter, Kim

Great Grandma Martha

Stacey & her son with Nate

Aunt Melissa Owen, Little Nathan

Christin digging for coins!