This year for our Harmon family reunion we went up to the beautiful Heber Valley girls camp that is owned by the LDS church. It really is a wonderful facility and it was perfect for our reunion. We were able to enjoy the outdoors with the comforts of home. Everyone was there except for our beloved mom and grandma who is currently in Texas taking care of her sweet sister who is going through cancer treatments.
Everyone started arriving on Thursday Aug. 18th and we stayed and played till early evening Saturday Aug. 20th. From the pictures below you will see that there was a lot to do. We had a great time playing with cousins, visiting, hiking, and enjoying nature ... all that our Heavenly Father has to offer. We really had a great time.
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| This is the view of the cabins from the pavilion. |
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| Another view of the cabins. |
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| Inside the cabins. Awesome is inspecting our living quarters and he approves! |
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| Thursday night was a get in, unpack, and get things settled kind of a night. Awesome was ready for bed. |
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The middle cabin became the "cousin" cabin. Not a lot of sleeping going on in there. I felt bad for
Brett and Mindy who decided to sleep in there with all the kids. |
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| Ahhhh, Friday morning. Everyone getting breakfast and ready for the full day ahead. |
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Our family was in charge of breakfast that first morning. Scott wrangled up some great french toast
that everyone devoured. It was so delicious.... |
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.... while Awesome and I finished up by doing the dishes. Awesome did a great job drying the dishes
for me. |
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| The fam eating our yummy breakfast. |
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| Ty REALLY enjoying his french toast. |
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| Mindy and B-man |
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| Our assigned cups. We went green by making sure we drank from the same cups for each meal. It went well. |
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| All the kids/cousins getting ready to take off on their pirate scavenger hunt. |
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| looking for the clues that would get them closer to the "booty". |
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| Everyone found their treasure!!! Thanks Glenn and Kristen, that was awesome. |
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| Awesome enjoying his treasure! |
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| C-bug looking through his new stick at Uncle Scott. |
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Getting ready for the challenge courses. They were wonderful and we really enjoyed doing them.
Especially as a family. |
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| Team work on a challenge course. |
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| Ty lu-uvs the team work. |
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| Just taking some time out to relax and enjoy. |
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| some more fun pics of the challenge course... |
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| ....... challenge course. The kids loved these. |
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| Me, getting my challenge course on! |
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| and my descent on the zip line. Totally a blast! |
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| Scott's turn... |
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| ...and Scott coming down. |
While we were wrapping up our afternoon of challenge courses I was packing all our stuff up to go when I heard Awesome scream. It wasn't a normal "I've hurt myself and fell down kind of a scream", it was a blood curdling "I've been mortally injured" kind of scream. My heart sank and I looked down toward my 2 year who had his head down. His hat brim was in the way so I couldn't see what he was trying to dig out of his face in a fury. My father in law immediately informed me that he thought a bug had bit him. That he watched the big bug leave Awesome's face and that it was black. When I finally got Awesome to calm down enough to where he wasn't trying to dig out his right eye anymore I took a look and found that he had been stung twice. Once in the upper eyelid and the second below the same eye. I felt so bad for him. I quickly rinsed out his eyes since he'd been rubbing them so vigorously with his dirty hands and then I just held him tight until his dad came to take him. By the time we got back to the car he was rearing to go and play again. His eye still irritated him throughout the rest of the day and it did swell up pretty good even after a dose of benedryl but he was a trooper and bounced right back to being the happy energetic kid he is.
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Here he is pulling a sad face for me. When he's in front of the camera he can really turn on the emotion.
Poor boy! |
Friday night was talent/skit night. Boy was that a hoot. Each family performed and it was so fun to see the variety of things each family came up with. We told the story of Cowboy Awesome taken from the far fetched stories of Pecos Bill. Awesome and Scott acted out the story as I narrated. We had a really entertaining night.
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| A scene from "skit" night. |
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| Mike and Danielle's family in a canoe. (Scott's 3rd older brother ) |
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| Me, H-bug and Awesome enjoying our canoe ride thanks to dad and grandpa! |
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| Awesome and his swollen eye. |
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| Kim with C-bug and J-dude. |
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| Jess and Mads |
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| E and Brett. (Scott's oldest brother) |
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| Glenn, Kristen and fam. (Scott's youngest brother) |
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| Spencer and Sandra. (Scott's 2nd oldest brother) |
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| MaK, E-girl, and Vivi |
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| A-man and K-dude |
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| Awesome helping row the canoe. |
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| Dad and Awesome. |
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Brother's getting ready to help pull on our last challenge course of the trip.
A 30 ft. swing. |
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| From this pic you can kinda see how far up the swing goes. The kids really enjoyed this one. |
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| Playing in the sand box while others went on the big swing. |
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| Awesome was brave enough to want to try out the big swing. |
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| And here he goes.... |
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| ... climbing up the ladder to the launching platform... |
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| .... getting instructions on what to do.... |
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| .... holding on to the rope as he's pulled up... |
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| ... and breaking loose! What a brave kid! |
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| Victory smile! |
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| H-bug just sitting back and watching. |
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| The whole fam. |
We had such a great time this year. Thanks to Tom and Karen for planning, reserving, and providing all the great things that made this years reunion so wonderful and fun. We love when we can all get together and the kids love it more. It's so fun to watch them run around for hours playing, and getting along so well. It's times like these when you are so thankful that families are forever!
Our last post: Our summer of fun part 5: Wrapping it up! My goal is to get my last post in before Sep. 23rd, the first day of FALL.... can you believe it! Sheesh.
