Thursday morning Jennifer and her girls and Sarah and her children and little Alex went to a swimming pool nearby and spent an enjoyable time while the rest of the family went golfing. We had two foursomes and played 18 holes at the Broken Tee golf course. The weather was suspect because it was cold and rainy but the 4 hours in which we played turned out to be very nice and we had a good time. That evening we all assembled at Tom and Johanna's home and enjoyed a wonderful meal of Tom's stuffed hamburgers. When we had all we could eat, we drove to Tom and Johanna's chapel and played "Human Foos Ball." A few of us had played before, but for the majority it was a new game, but a lot of fun and from the young children to an old man like me. We had a great time.
Friday our plans took us to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in downtown Denver. We began our odyssey through a number of venues around 11:00 am and spent 3 or 4 hours enjoying the Space Odyssey, Expedition Health, Edge of the Wild, South Pacific Islands and Australia, and finally Gems and Minerals. There was a lot more to see, but we were tired and called it a day around 3:30 pm. We drove to Andrew and Sarah's home and had our evening dinner and enjoyed visiting. To cap the evening off we walked to a nearby elementary school and played a rousing game of "Kick Ball" and stretched a few muscles. It must have been fun because only darkness caused us to end the game.
Saturday morning we all assembled at the Chatsworth Reversoir swim beach near Roxborough and had a fun-filled late morning and afternoon playing in the water, visiting on the beach and for several getting more sun that they needed. It was a perfect day at the beach, with a clear sky and temperatures in the 80's. We had lunch of hot dogs and chips and other trimmings and enjoyed the day.
Saturday evening was an Adult dinner at one of our favorite spots - "Texas Roadhouse." Spencer took care of some of the children in Highlands Ranch and Drew the others in Roxborough. Eveyrthing turned out perfectly and the 11 of us at the restuarant enjoyed the meal and visiting.
Sunday was the conclusion to our reunion and perhaps the best day of all. At 11:00 am the family met at the Roxborough chapel following sacrament and sunday school meetings and attended the ordination of Drew to the office of Deacon in the Aaronic Priesthood. Travis ordained his son and gave a wonderful blessing. Following the block of meetings we all met at Travis and Jennifer's home in Roxborough for the final events of our reunion. Travis and Jennifer prepared a wonderful meal and we ate and ate and ate some more as we visited and watched all the fun antics of the little children - in and out of the house, and up and down the stairs. They had endless energy. The girls had stuffed plastic easter eggs with candy and Tom and Johanna went outside and hid them all over the yard and then the children went hunting, starting with the youngest and finally with Spencer.
After an hour or so we held an adults meeting on the patio and discussed the future of our reunion and then the children joined us and we had a final devotional. I told about one of our ancesters - William Henry Cottle and their crossing the plains and eventual settling in Plain City, Utah. I then began a testimony meeting and one by one we heard wonderful expressions of love and devotion to family and the church from all the adults and also Spencer and Kali. It was a wonderful conclusion to a wonderful reunion. We look forward to 2010 in Monroe!
6 comments:
great post, dad! i have been putting this post off because i knew it would take so much energy :)
The photos are looking good Joe!
Ahhh, I love stalking your family :) Us Cartwright are lame, we never do anything fun like this!! Can you picture my dad playing kickball? No? That's because it would NEVER happen! Gosh! No fair!!!!
Thanks for posting! It was great! And terrific pictures. Don't wait so long to post again, please??
sounds and looks like it was a lot of fun. wish i could have been there.
Great post Joe!
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