Family Reunion.

**WARNING**

Picture overload ahead.

The Syddall Family Campout was held June 29 through July 3.

Actually, only Bill, Mar and I headed up on the 29th.

Our campsite was at the end of a road and was beautiful.

It was so so peaceful that first morning.

Grandpa rolled in bright and early, just in time to enjoy our last-night's-dinner-turned-breakfast (we ate at McD's on the way there the night before, since we got off later than anticipated).

Once the basics were unloaded, Grandpa and Mar headed out to make a phone call.

Then Grandpa set off to pick up Robyn's trailer, and it was back to Bill, Mar (with her ukelele) and me.

We set out on a little drive.

Tay and Nae were the next two to arrive...

...then Lex and Jase.

Before long, the little campers showed up.

Bill cooked in the most beautiful kitchen ever the next morning.

Bill's littlest youngest brother benched him...

 ... and Bill curled his leg hahahahahahaha.

 There was a whole lot o' corn-in-the-hole playing...

 ...and a lot o' cruising around on ATVs.

Wonderful Sweet Scarlett (and her posse) showed up Friday afternoon.

The ATVs were definitely a hit with her.

Scarlett and her bunny all nice and clean... (not for long!)

(I should mention that it rained and rained Thursday night and throughout a chunk of the day on Friday. In between all that rain we made the best of a wet situation haha.)

Little {Grandpa} Billy is AWESOME at performing entertaining tricks for Wonderful Sweet Scarlett.

Austin showed us a great way to get oxygen to a fire... Little {Grandpa} Billy was impressed enough to practice it with some of the youngers:

Tay and Mar played some tunes (per their momma's specific request... thanks, guys!)

On Saturday, Bill and I took a little 4-wheeler drive to view the sights.

 So pretty.

We snapped a few family pics on Saturday because Lex and Jase were heading out that evening.

Jessi and Grace.

Marlee and Mauri. 

A few jumping pics for good measure...

Sunday morning we packed up camp to head home.

We snapped some more family pics right before we parted ways.

Cecilia, Angela, Matt; William, Grace, Justin 

Kellen, Dayna, Jeff, and Koa 

 Kevin, Cannon, Marlee, Jessi

 Leki, Sarah, Russ, Gage

Hunter, Cole, Robyn, Kade, Hayden, and Hank 

The whole gang (minus Shi, Lex, and Jase)

Post post: As I was reading over this again today, I felt that I should also mention that this was the first campout that we've had since Brian passed away last November. I know he was much on the minds of everyone there. He was definitely missed! I didn't post about it earlier because I wasn't quite sure how to include it. The family still struggles with the fact that he's not here, and I think we are all trying to figure out how to align our feelings of loss with the feelings of joy and happiness we get from being together.

So so much fun, marred slightly by the accident Courtney, Hunter's girlfriend, had the last evening there. She broke her pelvis in a 4-wheeler roll-over {tears}. She ended up at the U Medical Center and had surgery to put in pins. Recovery is slow (at least three months), but we are so grateful it wasn't any worse.

It's always good to get together with the extended family. It gets harder each year, so we relish the times we can all swing it. 

Love you guys!