Family Reunion

Two weekends ago we went up to Heber Valley Camp for a family reunion. My Grandma and Grandpa arranged for the accommodations and then other members of my moms family put together all of the details. We had a great time as evidenced by the pictures below.

My wonderful Grandparents sitting around the campfire with all of us singing songs that my mom's family sang growing up. The best part: hearing my Grandpa sing a song that he sang to us as children that we loved to hear him sing. (There is a video at the very bottom of the post)

Nicholas and William holding some props for our skit. Each family got a bag with 3 or 4 items that had to be used in the skit along with 3 phrases that my cousin at heard people say in just the few hours of us being there. I can't remember what all of our phrases are. The only one I can remember is: "My bum is still numb." I know, great one to remember. Probably because it got some good laughs as we tried to plan our skit. Our items were a light saber, a purse and the rock like thing Nicholas is holding.

Emilie playing with daddy around the campfire.

My camera focused on my cousins wife Kenna behind Nicholas, but here is Nicholas at the campfire.

Shay at the campfire singing the songs. I need to learn to give Shay the camera to include me in some pictures because there are none of me in the pictures I took.

Emilie flirting with my cousin and his girlfriend behind her.

Marshmallow face. Obviously a well enjoyed smore.

The next morning all the younger kids got to go on a nature hike that Kerstin and my cousin Aarika arranged. They were to look for things that were flat that they could use in a craft when the got back to our campsite.

Nicholas and William listening to a story being read about things in nature.

Emilie off and on her way on the hike.

She loved to pick the dandelions. I thought we were going to be picking them all day. There were quite a few right here in this area.

Doing the craft, putting their "flat" things between contact paper. Some of the stuff, especially the piece of driftwood Nicholas picked up, were not flat.

Balancing on the logs.

Blowing bubbles.

Eating cookies. (Emilie was very tired at this point. She only got 6 hours of sleep that night before and she usually gets about 11-12)

A cute up close of Emilie.

Jason and Nicholas. For one of the kids crafts, that my mom did, the kids got to decorate a popsicle stick frame with all kinds of objects. Nicholas wanted a picture of his Uncle Jason and him to put in his (instead of the picture of a temple or Jesus that were provided).

Family Olympics. Boy did we get some good laughs out of these. There were 3 legs of the family olympics, all involving small rubber chickens (which were actually very cute).

The first leg, the chickens were thrown out on the ground (there were 40 of them) and one person from each team (two teams at a time) had to see how many chickens they could pick up and stuff in their shirt/jacket.

The second leg by far received the most laughs. For this leg there were three boxes laid out equal distance apart. The chickens were laying at one end of the boxes. One teammate took the chickens and put them in between the legs of the other teammate. That teammate had to walk, weaving through the box trail, to the other end and drop the chickens at the other end. All the while attempting to keep as many of the chickens in between their legs. It was hilarious!

Here is William giving it a try.

He decided mom should do it instead.

The third leg I didn't get any pictures of, but it was a chicken toss. The boxes were still in the same places as before and you had to try and throw them into the boxes, the furthermost one being the most points.

We had a great time at our family reunion. It was fun to be out camping and enjoying family! If you haven't had a chance to go up to Heber Valley Camp you should give it a try sometime. It was beautiful (and my kind of camping. There were cabins with bunk beds. Although, they weren't all that comfortable. But is camping every very comfortable?)

And the best part of all...my grandpa singing Jonathan, Jospeh, Jeremiah

Here are the words:

Oh! Me Mother and Father were elgant folks.
They had such a feeling for practical jokes,
That when I was born, they bore the same mind
That I should pssess all the names they could find.

Chorus:
For, It's Jonathan, Joseph, Jeremiah,
Timothy, Thomas, Obediah,
Walter, Henry, Peter, Sam,
Nathaniel, Daniel, Abraham,
Christopher, Dick, Nicholas, Pat, Jehosaphat.

When I went to get married, the case itwas bad.
The clergyman looked at me like he was mad.
Said he, "My young man, without any rhyme,
You'll have to get married a bit at at time."

Chorus