Last weekend we attended our Syddall Family Reunion up Fairview Canyon. We've been camping in Fairview since the year Bill and I were married (maybe his family camped there before me, too...).
25 years. We can drive through the campground areas and reminisce about dozens of spots from dozens of years past. I can vividly recall pictures of campouts over the years...
here's a few, just to illustrate my point:
here's a few, just to illustrate my point:
This year, we took the dogs along. I was apprehensive about it, since they aren't really traveling dogs (I put them in their kennels just to go to the vet). They were both quite nervous as we embarked on our journey.
At the beginning of a campout is definitely the time to take pictures. Aren't these ladies beautiful?
We had EVERYTHING a good family reunion/campout needs:
√ Time to relax and visit
√ Close family togetherness while piling into vehicles to go fish
√ Four wheelin'
√ Reuniting Jack, Ava, and Conan (it is a family reunion, after all)
√ Relaxing in the air-conditioned comfort of Grandma and Grandpa's trailer when the temps soar
√ Glamping it up with mountain manicures
√ Hanging out with the dawgs
√ Playing Grandpa's awesome horseshoes bean bag game
√ More four wheelin'
√ Getting down and {dirty} - and not caring
√ Long walks
√ More fishing
√ Cousins
√ Have I mentioned fishing?
√ Cuddly Cousins
√ Filleted and grilled freshly caught fish (Austin's the pro)
√ Bubbles
√ Silly Minute-to-Win-It games
√ Rest and relaxation
√ Target shooting
√ Wheeling-on-four (just changing it up)
√ Volleyball
√ A beautiful location
√ A perfect campsite
√ S'mores around the campfire
√ More cuddly cousin time
√ The best camp grillmaster ever
√ Plenty of creepy bugs and mosquitos (24 bites on Cole's neck alone)
√ Building things out of sticks with cousins
√ And lots (and lots) of end-of-campout family group pictures
(I know this is everybody's favorite part... right?):
(I know this is everybody's favorite part... right?):
√ Don't forget a few good photo bombs
And that's it. Like I said... EVERYTHING.
We sure missed this girl:
(Circa 2007)
She couldn't find a reasonable way to get there from Idaho without missing more school than she'd like.
Maybe next year.
On our way to and from the campout, we passed the area that burned last year, causing a last-minute relocation of the reunion. The mountainside looked like this for what seemed like miles. So sad.
Shi headed to Orem with Taylor and Lynnea to attend EFY on Monday, so Mar had more room to spread out with the dogs on the way home.
It was awesome.
