This year the reunion was at Big Rock Candy Mountain in Utah. Deveny and David planned it this year and did an amazing job. Everyone had such a fun time! I love how much we all enjoy being together and that everyone gets along so well! It's great how the cousins just jump right in playing together even though it's been a year since a lot of them have seen each other.
The big rock candy mountain
Every family had their own cabin (except the Paces who stayed in their camper). This one was ours.
We gathered on the bridge to watch Carson jump in the river.
Isaac
Some of the boys played a golf game where they tried to get the ball in the cornhole board holes. At least I think that's what they were doing.
Xavier. He's leaving on his mission to Finland in a couple weeks!
That night we roasted marshmallows and ate smores. There were so many mosquitoes, especially at night so we were hoping the smoke would help keep them away.
The next morning we floated the river on tubes and one raft. No one wanted their phones broken, so we don't have any pictures of the event, but we had a lot of fun. Most of the people in tubes linked up for the last little while and enclosed the raft inside. It was pretty fun!
After lunch and hanging out for a bit we hiked Bullion Falls.
There were some cows blocking the road on our way to the trailhead.
Avery, Lila, Gracie, Jackson, Coleman, Kenzie, Grayson, Carinn, Ashton, Lincoln, Eva, Jordan, Daisy, and Bo the dog.
We made it to the top!
Some people hiked up closer to the top of the falls and some hiked down to the bottom. Jordan was one of the ones who hiked to the bottom. Carson was the only one who went in the falls, I think.
On our way back to the cars it started downpouring! We were hot, so I thought it felt nice. Doug and I were walking with Brian and Grayson. Grayson started singing songs to make the rain go away. When it stopped he said "I made the rain go away!" Almost 4 year olds are so fun:)
The kids tried to see how many times they could hit the volleyball before it hit the grounds. Their highest was 81!
The family!
Randy and Donna
Mckay, Deveny, David. Preston came for dinner the night before. We should have taken their family picture while he was here!
Jason and Shantel
Daisy, Darrin, Shawnee, Kassidee, Albany, Carson
Kassidee, Albany, Carson
Avery, Rose, Gracie, Tyler, Lila
Candis, Lincoln, Xavier, Eva, Bo, Ryan, Isaac
Ashton, Alyssa, Grayson, Brian,, Carinn
Jackson, Kenzie, me, Coleman, Doug, Jordan
The siblings. After some research, I found out that the last time they were all together was 2017!
X, Jordan, Jackson, Isaac, Mckay
That night we watched Kung Fu Panda 3 with our projector. Not many made it to the end. The mosquitoes and tiredness did them in :)
The next day a lot of the family went golfing, and the rest of us stayed back and painted (except Coleman who didn't golf or paint, he just hung out :)) The rest of the day we just spent time together. Some people floated down the river and jumped off the bridge.
He's not actually sleeping:)
We all offered to keep an eye on Grayson while Brian and his girls were golfing. Coleman spent a couple hours playing with him. It was cute! After Coleman went in to get a sandwich Grayson told someone "my other friend's in there" and pointed to our cabin:)
Albany and Shawnee.
Jackson, Isaac, X
Some of the golfers painted after they got back.
Mckay,'s Lila's, Xavier's,
Jackson's, Rose's
Kassidee's, Daisy's, Candis', mine, Kenzie's,
Isaac's, Isaac's, Eva's, and Avery's
Mine, Kenzie's, Kassidee's, Daisy's,
Avery's, Tyler's, Gracie's, Grayson's
Alyssa's
Daisy, Grayson, Deveny, Daisy
Shawnee, Kenzie
We brought some reusable water balloons. They were really cool! Grayson loved them. He got Shawnee!
And then she got him back!
Daisy and Rose were trying to fill up the water cooler, but Grayson had the hose and kept spraying them when they'd get close. Rose stopped the flow by bending the hose. But when Daisy went to get the hose, Rose let it go and Daisy got soaked. Soon after that they were able to fill it up though:)
The kids played World Cup a lot.
Shawnee, Alyssa, Albany
A big group floating down the river.
Coleman loved it! And he loved being in the front!
Kenzie
Kenzie and Eva jumping in. Coleman getting ready to jump in.
Jordan
Coleman loved jumping in! He did it 20 times! He would jump in, get out then jump right in again.
Jackson
Tyler
Coleman and Doug
Darrin
Lincoln
Kenzie
Mckay and Jackson
Carson got so high!
After dinner several games of cornhole occurred.
The next morning we just had breakfast then everyone packed up and left.
Darrin and Shawnee rode the motorcycle to the reunion!
We had such a great time with everyone! And can't wait till next year:)
