Family Reunion 2010 - Monroe, Utah

Well I have finally decided I need to make this post before it is ancient history.  But the Joseph Cottle family reunion was held in Monroe and we really had a good time.  Our entire family was here for most of the first week of August. 

Early in the week the kids found the sprinklers and even Reynolds and Jane had a great time running around the back yard in the "cold" water. 

During the first part of the week we enjoyed quite a few evenings on the back porch watching the kids play.  The "men" also played golf almost every day when the weather cooperated. 

We have some budding musicians

Of course each morning began with a freefall in the kitchen.  We went through boxes and sacks of cereal, gallons of milk, and even some good old fashioned bacon and eggss.

On thursday everyone was in Monroe and the highlight of the day was the water slide.  We had it for four hours in the afternoon and the kids and adults had a time of it.  The water was close, however it didn't seem to bother anyone, even the little kids.  We also had a badmitten net up and to warm up vigourous games were played.  Tom brought a lawn game that was tried and was very interesting. 

Saturday was the day we planned on going on the mountain.  Unfortunately we had a lot of rain that morning and the picture below shows us coming back down after a trecherous section where we wondered if we would stay on the road.  We ended up going to the Monrovian park and cooking a wonderful Dutch Oven dinner (thanks to Tom and Johanna) and the kids played in the river, and climbed the nearby peaks.  We had a nice warm fire and it was a wonderful few hours. 

Well that's about it.  I'm sure many of you have other pictures of our week, but we concluded Saturday evening at our home where we had another excellent meal (Weston grilled steaks on the grill) and then we assembled in the house and had a wonderful testimony meeting.  I guess we plan on continuing this tradition, but now it will be every other year.  We will give some time for the in-law families to meet!!!

Thanks for making the time to come together.  It was well worth it.  Next time we will have a few more new ones.