July 12 – we arrived just in time to prepare and serve dinner to the group. (At its peak during the reunion, the group was about 115 people.) After dinner, we had a family meeting where each of the families introduced their members (some more creatively than others). We simply introduced ourselves.

Then Grandpa led everyone in singing happy birthday to Carter in Portuguese.

After root-beer floats, Carter braved the cold irrigation water to slide down the giant, canal-fed waterside on the property.