Campbell Reunion 2014

This year was the Marvin and Loris Campbell family reunion and Jeff and Claudia were in charge of it.  They reserved a camp ground in the Uinta mountains up by Mt. Timpanogas.  The reunion didn't begin until Saturday but we headed down to Utah on Friday and camped out at the Cabela's store in Lehi.  That ended up being a lot of fun, and a pretty expensive camp site (because we went shopping inside Cabela's.)  We ate dinner inside the store at their restaurant and spent a lot of time in the store checking all the goods out.  Lori and Aaron joined us there and the kids had a lot of fun riding their bikes and rip sticks around the parking lot.

We got up Saturday morning and after hitting the door buster sales, we loaded up and headed to the Tibble Fork Reservoir where we played in the water and had a picnic lunch with the family.  Then later in the afternoon we headed up to our campground.  It was a lovely campground called Altamont.  We had the campground to ourselves, with lots of spots for RV's and tents.  The kids had tons of fun playing with their cousins by the creek and riding their bikes.

On Sunday we got up and went and hiked to the Mt. Timpanogas caves, most of us went and the hike was perfect, we even had some little ones go like Carolina, Gidean, Julia and Andrew and they all did really well.  Brad got there a little late and made it up the pretty steep hike in like 45 minutes to catch up with his children.  (Corri had just gotten home from the hospital after being in the ICU for 11 days with a brain bleed, it was a total miracle that she was out of the hospital in time for the reunion and that all is well with her.)

We enjoyed lots of time enjoying each other's company, every one of Reid's siblings made it to the reunion (Corri only came for Sunday day) but it was good to have everyone together.  Roxanne and her children were here from North Carolina and Ben and Holly had just moved home from Seattle the week prior.  Most of Jeff and Claudia's family was there, all but Jolene who lives in Hawaii and is only a month away from delivering their first baby.  It was really great to get re-acquainted with everyone and laugh and reminisce about old times.

On our way home from the reunion we stopped at the new sporting goods store "Sheels" and ended up spending quite a bit of time there, it was a lot of fun. They even had a Ferris wheel that we rode.  Then we stopped in Ogden and went to the temple open house, it was a great experience for our children to see the inside of the temple and to be able to talk about what goes on in the temple.  All in all it was a great little vacation for our family, one that was very much appreciated!

Cabela's

Our camping in the Cabela's parking lot

Making our fun glow bugs while camping

Grandma helping Cody

Vicki and Aaron were such great helpers- they glued everyone's wings!

Carolina's glow bug!

Getting ready for the hike!

Our "family" photo- does anything look "off" here?

So happy to have Corri and baby Jacob with us for the day

Uncle Jeff

such a beautiful place!

Poor Carolina had a bike accident, this is the aftermath!

Mitch was making kindling and had the knot come out of the wood, thought it was so cool!

She needed a nap after her traumatic events!

Savanna, McKinley and Addi playing by the creek

painting some crafts- so much fun!

She took a picture of herself, she wanted to see her poor little face

All the grandkids

Reid getting attacked by a bear at Sheel's

Ogden temple open house- so beautiful!

Cabela's shot

Savanna at the Lake

Hiking

at the cave entrance

inside the cave

at Scheel's our new favorite sporting goods store