July 23,
We left Wednesday night and we left kinda late cause we were waiting for some cloths to dry so we could pack them. We got to the campground close to midnight. Mom and dad waited up for us and then because it was so late they let us sleep in their cabin.
July 24,
After Rosko decided he wanted to wake me up really early..(I think it was 5 or 5:30 cause that's what he's use to getting up at
) I took him for a walk. It was a beautiful morning, I took Rosko on a walk on a road by the river. It was cold but refreshing a perfect "fisherman's" morning. When I got back though I was still tired and went back to bed. When I woke up James was outside putting up the tent and was basically done so I got in the shower and got ready for the day while I watched the parade with my mom and Aunt Colleen. The whole day was spent relaxing and visiting with people that started to trickle in. James and I played volleyball with my cousins, nieces and nephews..that was a lot of fun. We didn't stay up to long cause we were so tired.
) I took him for a walk. It was a beautiful morning, I took Rosko on a walk on a road by the river. It was cold but refreshing a perfect "fisherman's" morning. When I got back though I was still tired and went back to bed. When I woke up James was outside putting up the tent and was basically done so I got in the shower and got ready for the day while I watched the parade with my mom and Aunt Colleen. The whole day was spent relaxing and visiting with people that started to trickle in. James and I played volleyball with my cousins, nieces and nephews..that was a lot of fun. We didn't stay up to long cause we were so tired.July 25,
(At our reunions breakfast and dinners are provided through funds we raise with an auction and every family is assigned to help with a meal. James and I had breakfast Sunday morning.) Friday started out on a relaxing note. I sat and talked with my mom all morning till breakfast was ready. After breakfast James said that mom and dad invited us to go to the Olympic park with them. Jason and Heather wanted to go too so we all piled into 3 cars (cau
se my 2 aunts and uncle were coming too) and headed towards park city. After a quick walmart stop we went to the Olympic park. They had this big pool were skiers could practice their jumps it was really neat. My Aunt Colleen and Uncle Jim was there with my cousins Erin, Wes and James and their families. We were hoping to see some people jump but we didn't see anyone but Jill and Brie showed up with Aleisha. We had a quick lunch and then went into the museum to check it out. It was neat. The first thing we saw was this white buffalo covered in newspaper articles about the Olympics like this one that showed a picture
of the the flag that survived the world trade center attacks being unraveled and a lot of other neat articles. It was also signed by some of the athletes the whole museum was really cool they had bobsleds that you could climb into and take pictures and there was a lot of different interactive games to teach you about avalanches, skiing, weather patterns. The history of the ski, people and lots of other neat things. they had a video about bob sledding that everyone wanted to see (by this time it was back to my mom and dad, aunts and uncle, and James and I) but I wasn't to interested so I went outside and saw that people were practicing their jumps at that pool we saw. I watched them for a minute then went back into the museum to tell everyone that they were jumping. they all got up real quick to go watch. :) It was neat to watch them. They had these little kids doing these jumps that looked like they were at least 5 years old. Under the water they had these pipes that would create a lot of bubbles to
offer cushioning for when they landed. We overheard a tour guide telling a group of people that one time a guy was doing his jump and the bubbles stopped working so when he landed it broke both of his ski's she said if the bubbles weren't there it would be like hitting cement. Ouch! It was amazing to see these people do these jumps. There was this one jump in the middle that was the highest and dad said that after we left someone went off that jump...that would he ave been neat to see. I did get video of a couple guys doing these jumps though.
I'm sorry for it being on it's side I couldn't figure out how to rotate it and that's how I took the video. We watched them do these jumps for awhile then James and I (who hadn't had lunch) decided to go back to camp to eat and then go back to park city. This is my first trip ever to Park City, I've always driven by it but I have never actually seen Park City. So after lunch James took me to
Historic Main Street. It was really neat. We got ice cream and walked around to look at all the little shops and we ran into Kriss and Nikeedra, Sherry and Nikkol, (my cousins and their daughters) and Denese and Nancy (my sisters) They said they saw my parents earlier with my aunts and uncle. The whole street was just so cute I loved it. They had this cute trolley that would take you up and down main street. One of the neatest things that happened there was when James and I were walking and I noticed this beautiful owl sculpture in the window so I slowed down to take a closer look. It was a really good sculpture, very life like...or so I thought....then it moved. This owl was HUGE!!!! It was at least 2 feet high...I'm not exaggerating. James and I tried to talk to the trainer...he wasn't to thrilled that we were talking to him but James made a comment that he's never seen an owl that big before and the trainer told us that we never will again, that she was pretty rare. We wanted to take a picture but thought it might spook her and her trainer wasn't exactly friendly. We should have though. She was a beautiful brown and black and had big orange eyes. The trainer said he worked for Hoogle Zoo and does shows there.
So if you go to the zoo and see a very big brown owl then that's probably her. :) The reason why she was there was to just attract peoples attention so a guy could try and sell them a time share. James thought it was brilliant. :) Well we continued on down Main Street and just enjoyed the evening. Then noticed it was getting late so we headed back to camp. Kari and David had arrived so we went and visited with them till dinner was ready. After dinner mom had planned a little skit and asked unsuspecting people to participate. :) She had a sheet that she had sewed two dresses, a baby outfit and jeans and a flannel shirt to. She put my Aunt Colleen in the baby outfit complete with little hat. My cousin John in the out fit next to the baby...the blue dress. My Aunt Norma in the flannel shirt and sorts and my cousin Steve in the last dress. They were all wearing some type of hat or wig. They put their hands in the feet of the cloths and had people behind them be their hands. My aunt Colleen had her daughter Erin behind her, John had his son John Wesley, Norma had James. :) Yup my James. Then Steve had his sister in law (my cousin) Carla. then they did a skit of Goldy locks and the three bears....Vern and Evelyn Earl style. I didn't get the whole thing on video the way I wanted to cause our card was full and it turned off but I did get some. 
I couldnt load it onto the blog so here's a picture...
It was so funny people were laughing so hard. The people who were involved seemed to enjoy it too...kinda. Mostly the people who were behind the curtain. IT was fun. After that Denese had the kids to Chubby Bunny. She gave the kids a marshmallow and they had to put it in their mouth without chewing the marshmallow or swallowing any of it and then say chubby bunny. You keep adding marshmallows till you cant say chubby bunny or need to spit out all the marshmallows. My cousins son Anthony won...I think he had 11 marshmallows in his mouth. It was funny but kinda gross too. Everyone seemed to have a fun evening. Later that night Erika, Brieanna, Jill, James and I took our dogs for a walk along the river and we saw a moose. He was really close too. We didn't stay long on our walk cause the mosquitoes were eating us alive.
se my 2 aunts and uncle were coming too) and headed towards park city. After a quick walmart stop we went to the Olympic park. They had this big pool were skiers could practice their jumps it was really neat. My Aunt Colleen and Uncle Jim was there with my cousins Erin, Wes and James and their families. We were hoping to see some people jump but we didn't see anyone but Jill and Brie showed up with Aleisha. We had a quick lunch and then went into the museum to check it out. It was neat. The first thing we saw was this white buffalo covered in newspaper articles about the Olympics like this one that showed a picture
of the the flag that survived the world trade center attacks being unraveled and a lot of other neat articles. It was also signed by some of the athletes the whole museum was really cool they had bobsleds that you could climb into and take pictures and there was a lot of different interactive games to teach you about avalanches, skiing, weather patterns. The history of the ski, people and lots of other neat things. they had a video about bob sledding that everyone wanted to see (by this time it was back to my mom and dad, aunts and uncle, and James and I) but I wasn't to interested so I went outside and saw that people were practicing their jumps at that pool we saw. I watched them for a minute then went back into the museum to tell everyone that they were jumping. they all got up real quick to go watch. :) It was neat to watch them. They had these little kids doing these jumps that looked like they were at least 5 years old. Under the water they had these pipes that would create a lot of bubbles tooffer cushioning for when they landed. We overheard a tour guide telling a group of people that one time a guy was doing his jump and the bubbles stopped working so when he landed it broke both of his ski's she said if the bubbles weren't there it would be like hitting cement. Ouch! It was amazing to see these people do these jumps. There was this one jump in the middle that was the highest and dad said that after we left someone went off that jump...that would he ave been neat to see. I did get video of a couple guys doing these jumps though.I'm sorry for it being on it's side I couldn't figure out how to rotate it and that's how I took the video. We watched them do these jumps for awhile then James and I (who hadn't had lunch) decided to go back to camp to eat and then go back to park city. This is my first trip ever to Park City, I've always driven by it but I have never actually seen Park City. So after lunch James took me to
Historic Main Street. It was really neat. We got ice cream and walked around to look at all the little shops and we ran into Kriss and Nikeedra, Sherry and Nikkol, (my cousins and their daughters) and Denese and Nancy (my sisters) They said they saw my parents earlier with my aunts and uncle. The whole street was just so cute I loved it. They had this cute trolley that would take you up and down main street. One of the neatest things that happened there was when James and I were walking and I noticed this beautiful owl sculpture in the window so I slowed down to take a closer look. It was a really good sculpture, very life like...or so I thought....then it moved. This owl was HUGE!!!! It was at least 2 feet high...I'm not exaggerating. James and I tried to talk to the trainer...he wasn't to thrilled that we were talking to him but James made a comment that he's never seen an owl that big before and the trainer told us that we never will again, that she was pretty rare. We wanted to take a picture but thought it might spook her and her trainer wasn't exactly friendly. We should have though. She was a beautiful brown and black and had big orange eyes. The trainer said he worked for Hoogle Zoo and does shows there.
So if you go to the zoo and see a very big brown owl then that's probably her. :) The reason why she was there was to just attract peoples attention so a guy could try and sell them a time share. James thought it was brilliant. :) Well we continued on down Main Street and just enjoyed the evening. Then noticed it was getting late so we headed back to camp. Kari and David had arrived so we went and visited with them till dinner was ready. After dinner mom had planned a little skit and asked unsuspecting people to participate. :) She had a sheet that she had sewed two dresses, a baby outfit and jeans and a flannel shirt to. She put my Aunt Colleen in the baby outfit complete with little hat. My cousin John in the out fit next to the baby...the blue dress. My Aunt Norma in the flannel shirt and sorts and my cousin Steve in the last dress. They were all wearing some type of hat or wig. They put their hands in the feet of the cloths and had people behind them be their hands. My aunt Colleen had her daughter Erin behind her, John had his son John Wesley, Norma had James. :) Yup my James. Then Steve had his sister in law (my cousin) Carla. then they did a skit of Goldy locks and the three bears....Vern and Evelyn Earl style. I didn't get the whole thing on video the way I wanted to cause our card was full and it turned off but I did get some. 
I couldnt load it onto the blog so here's a picture...It was so funny people were laughing so hard. The people who were involved seemed to enjoy it too...kinda. Mostly the people who were behind the curtain. IT was fun. After that Denese had the kids to Chubby Bunny. She gave the kids a marshmallow and they had to put it in their mouth without chewing the marshmallow or swallowing any of it and then say chubby bunny. You keep adding marshmallows till you cant say chubby bunny or need to spit out all the marshmallows. My cousins son Anthony won...I think he had 11 marshmallows in his mouth. It was funny but kinda gross too. Everyone seemed to have a fun evening. Later that night Erika, Brieanna, Jill, James and I took our dogs for a walk along the river and we saw a moose. He was really close too. We didn't stay long on our walk cause the mosquitoes were eating us alive.
July 26,
Saturday morning was another relaxing morning that I was able to sit and talk with mom a little later on Kari joined us as well. At breakfast my cousin Brenda told everyone that they reserved two tables at the lake if we wanted to go to the lake. Two of my cousins also brought a boats. So at the lake they had two tables reserved, two boats and a water trampoline... I think after hearing that everyone wanted to go to the lake. So after breakfast we packed up our cooler and Rosko and everything (Jason and Heather helped us take everything to the lake in the truck) and rode with Kari, David and Adam (David's son) up to the lake. Jordan Elle has some really strict rules. We soon found out that the dogs couldn't come down to the lake side so they had to stay at the table across the street. Then we thought we heard that Everyone needed a life jacket 150 feet from the shore. So when we got there we were pretty bummed thinking that we could swim in the lake. So we had lunch and were figuring out what to do. Then we learned that it was only kids 12 and under who needed to be in life jackets...so...in the water we go. :)
We played on the water trampoline (the yellow and blue thing) for a long time. I don't think James wanted to come into the water, but I was in the water at the back side of the water trampoline holding on to a handle and he didn't see me for a long time and got really worried so he swam out really fast and me just thinking the look on his face was cause the water was cold started cheering that he was in the water. Then he came over and "tackled" me cause he was so worried that something had happened. :) What a sweet guy. We swam some more but then I got really tired so I went back to the table and Brie and Erika were there. They were taking turns watching Aleisha and the dogs...apparently we weren't suppose to leave the dogs unattended. SO I took Brie's spot so she could go swim and Erika and I talked. Then we were joined by James and soon Heather. We had fun just sitting there eating and talking. Heather and Jason had to leave caus
e they had to help with dinner. James and I played Frisbee for awhile then we saw everyone starting to head back and so we started packing up and then headed back to camp. Well going back to the auction (the way we fund our food for the reunion) we usually have it on the last night. So after dinner we had an "awards" ceremony which was fun. Denese gave out candy to the people who did things like...traveled the farthest, been to the most reunions, experiencing their first, etc. Then we started with the auction. It was so fun my uncle Jim was the auctioneer. Sometimes it would get so loud that he couldn't hear your bid so he would say something higher or lower then what you actually bid. :) It was a lot of fun. There was
a storm coming in so we had a strong wind blowing through the pavilion which was nice cause it kept the bugs away but also made it cold. Brenda made these cute knitted hats and when Jim held one up to be auctioned I heard James say that that would be nice to have right now. So I bid and won. :) He said I should have waited for the brown one cause that one was the one he wanted and we kept telling him to go up front and ask if you could trade cause we were sure that they'd let him, but he wouldn't. I really like it though I think it's cute. She also made a cute green one that I wanted but everyone seemed to want that one and it kept going up and up, so I stopped bidding on it. I also got a cute framed mirror with a neat bear carving. It's a wood bear with a scene carved into the bears side. It's hard to explain you'll just have to come over to my house and see it. :) Then there was this stuffed bunny that no one was bidding on so I felt bad. It was a cute little bunny so I bid $1 and then Shelly bid $2 so I thought oh good someone wants it. Then I heard James in my ear chanting "three dollars, three dollars." So I said $3 and got the bunny... I don't really know why. I think James was just really getting into it. I also got a cute little ceramic white pig piggy bank. That wasn't selling and the auctioneer now my cousin James who replaced his dad Jim was trying to get me to bid so I bid $1 and won it. He also tried to get me to buy a dog picture frame. The funny thing is that when he held it up James leaned over to me and asked me if I was going to bid on it. I said no cause I really didn't like it then he said good nether do it. Then James Comstock (the auctioneer) turned to me again and tried to get me to buy it...but I didn't cave this time. :) But later on when I tried to bid for a wind chime he gave me a hard time cause I would bid on the wind chime but not get a frame to put a picture of our dog in. :p Silly. We didn't get the wind chimes. It was a fun night. My mom got a lot of great things including a trip to St. George to go see uncle Glenn and aunt Norma. Plus the blanket she made went for $300. WAY TO GO MOM!!! I went for another walk with Erika and Brie but then after I just went to bed cause I got way to much sun.July 27
James and I were on breakfast and we wanted to make sure we didn't sleep in to long so we could help. So we woke up at 6:45... not on purpose. But we had a great chance to get to know some people more. We talked with Jackson, John Wesley, Sherry, Uncle Glenn and mom and Kari. It was great. As we helped with breakfast I also got the chance to talk to my cousins girlfriend Ashley. She's really nice. After Breakfast, I was able to go and look at the jewelry my uncle Kent makes and buy some. They're really pretty. Then I finished getting ready for the day and helped James pack up a little. Then it was time for pictures... :) I'm not sure if people like pictures or not...personally I do cause I just love pictures. 
And this is everyone who attended the reunion...yup there are more of us. :) The reunion was a lot of fun. Thanks to Denese and Nancy for all your hard work and for making it possible. :)
Him and his parents sang happy birthday. After they had to go to Nikki's. James and I had the cake which turned out to be really rich despite it's size. :) mmmmm It was very yummy. Then James and I went on a walk and came home to receive my third basket. Which was full of 3 different types of chocolate, popcorn and the movie "The devil wears prada" and a promise of a massage. :) We watched half of the movie before I realized I still needed to make the jello for the following day. We're having a potluck for all the June and July birthdays at work. so we ran to the store and I made the jello real quick while James blew up the air mattress. We slept down stairs where we got to try out our new sleeping bags. :)
Well the lows for this weekend weren't to low of lows. :p On Saturday James and I went with Dad, Justin (his dad and brother-in-law) and our nephew Nate to go golfing. We had a tee time for 7:52...kinda weird but ok. When we got there the wind was blowing like crazy so it made it really hard at first. But the wind died down and we had a lot of fun. James was doing awesome. His end score was 56 and his dad was 55. Nate had a lot of fun too. he got a little bored around the end of the 6th hole. I was impressed with how well he did. He was having fun hitting a ball around. Later that day we had a BBQ to go to in Magna. Our really good friends Alex and Ida Martinez and their 3 kids are moving to Texas. :( It was good to see them and spend time with them though. We had a BBQ and played games. We took Rosko and as soon as the kids saw him they wanted to take him and play with him...we didn't see him for awhile. :) When it came time to say goodbye we had to pry Rosko out of their hands. They did not want to give him back. :p The last time we took Rosko over to their house the oldest daughter took him up in her room hoping that we would forget about him. It was really good to see them, we will miss them. Sunday we went over to Nikki and Justin's house for a BBQ with Bob and a friend of Justin's from work and his family. That was really fun too. I taught Abby a new game and she loved it. we played it all night. :) The Wholleys ( "the friends":p) were very nice and they had 4 really cute kids. after dinner we went to the park with Abby, Nate and Gavin to play some ball. Well when we got there the sprinklers were on. We couldn't keep them away from them. :) Gavin and Nate were soaked by the time Justin showed up. We played catch, tag and a game called capture the football that Abby taught to us. Then the time came to the "BIG" event. :p We all were really excited for this. Justin's mom even drove down from Montana to join us. So after the park (and desert) we all piled into cars and drove down to Weber State University to
Well this weekend was the South Ogden town days they do this every year and James and I really look forward to it. I did take my camera to take more pictures but I forgot till I saw this car. I love these cows they're so funny. On the tail gate I don't know if you can see it but it says "Honk if U luv chikin". Well the truck wasn't the only thing there. :) It's really fun the whole week they have different things going on like mud volleyball, a 5k run/walk, bed races, a movie in the park night, a carnival. Then on Saturday they have a car show and a free concert. This year it was a Sammy Kershaw and they always have local bands to open the show. It was a lot of fun. Mom and Dad Armstrong came down and we went to the car show and saw some of the booths. We didn't stay to long cause mom had to get to Costco. So James and I went back later on and we decided to make a little "hike" out of it. So we packed a backpack with water and a bowl for Rosko and the three of us made the trek back to the carnival. Rosko had a hard time getting there cause it was so hot he would go ahead of us then lay down in the grass till we caught up to him then he'd jump back up and go some more.
We really did have fun...even though it may not look like it. :)
