Earl Family Reunion

My family tries to get together at least a couple times a year. When nearly my whole family lived in Las Vegas that was easier. We are currently more spread out. I'm hoping this won't be a permanent thing. We got to be with most of my family at our family reunion up at our cabin. There are actually 2 cabins now. The one my grandpa built and that I grew up going to, and my sister's family cabin that they built about 10 years ago - there is just 1 cabin between the two. There were 5 nephews, 2 nieces, 2 sisters, and 2 brothers-in-law missing, but since my family is so huge there were still lots of people there. We were at the cabin for a week and had a lot of fun. We had activities planned every day and so were never bored. Some highlights included:

 

We spent a couple hours cleaning up all the fallen pine needles in the yard to minimize the risk of fire.

 

We played some fun Minute To Win It games one night.
 

 

We walked to and played in the spring

Abby played with cousins (unfortunately she didn't play with them as much as she usually would have because she had a fever most of the time we were there, clearly didn't feel well, and spent most of her awake time wanting to be held by Ryan or me - poor baby)

Took some family pictures (my sister Emily designed shirts for everybody and each small family had our own color)

 

Had  treasure hunt

And Ryan and I went to Brian Head, rode the ski lift to the top of the mountain, and played their disc golf course down. It was a lot of fun, the weather was great, the wild flowers were so pretty, and as an added bonus toward the end of the course we happened upon the cattle roping thing - Ryan was awesome!

 

Ryan had to get back to work a couple days before the end of the reunion (most of the men ended up leaving early) but Abby and I stayed, and then staye din Las Vegas for another few days. I had to go to dental and eye appointments. My sisters kids were also staying my parents during htat time so once Abby got feeling better she got a little time playing with cousins. We spent a lot of time in the pool, which was great.



Isn't she just so cute! Another thing we did at the reunion was that my sister made cloth pockets for everyone and hung them outside then throughout the week people would put little things in them for each other - Abby got those cute glasses from my sister.