Cammie's World

Saturday, July 11, 2009

May and June revisited

I can hardly believe that is nearly the middle of July already. Seems like only yesterday there was snow on the ground. Well we did see snow on our hike so I guess there is still snow on the ground. May and June kept us busy. There was Gage's and Cheyenne's graduations and two trips to the ER. Once for my mom when she got stung by a bee and then again for Jared when he had Bronchitis. I missed the Warenski family reunion because of the trip to the hospital but I am so glad Jared is better now. Memorial Day found us at the Spanish Fork Cemetery for their Veterans program and to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of my dad's passing.

Followed by an afternoon at my mom's house hanging out with family.

As well as a trip the cemetery in Santaquin.
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Before we knew it, June was upon us and that brought with it Pony Express days in Eagle Mountain: With activities such as Family Fun Night

And a Health and Wellness fair

And then closed with a Parade. They threw so much candy we ended up with sacks full. Jared and I still have some of ours left

We attended the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open house

Followed by dinner at Red Robin for a delicious Whiskey River BBQ Chicken Burger!

It rained almost the entire month of June and I thought it was never going to stop. On the plus side provided us ample opportunities to find that elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Jared and I took a drive to Fish lake to try and meet up with the my mom and Brian's family as they were camping down there. We were not successful at finding them but we had a great time anyway.

Finally the weather cleared up and my mom and I were able to enjoy a fantastic day at Lagoon, courtesy of my work. As always we had a great time and I am glad she and I went.

Finishing off the month of June we had our annual Larsen Family reunion which I have already posted pictures of. Let's hope July can keep us just as hopping!

Monday, July 6, 2009

Raffle, awards and fire

So this is the last blog for reunion pictures unless I find some random cute ones as I make a disc for my aunt. We had an awards ceremony of sorts. People were given awards based on events like "Who Graduated this year" "Who has received a promotion" It was great fun.

We also had a Bon Fire built by a bunch of family members so we could roast marshmallows or just stay warm.

http://picasaweb.google.com/happyhugger/MedalCeremonyAndBonFire?authkey=Gv1sRgCKyq6dnPmduNpgE#

And last but not least my favorite part of the reunion is the raffle. I won two things this year. I planter and a quilt. I gave the quilt (which was beautiful) to Kacey and Kim as I thought they could really use it.

Surprisingly enough (even though I don't have kids) I like the kids part best. Just something about seeing the kids excited waiting for their name to be called. It is almost like Christmas.

http://picasaweb.google.com/happyhugger/Raffle?authkey=Gv1sRgCOetnr2ZuKTF_wE#

Sadly though, like all good things the reunion had to end and as we rode off into the sunset we knew we would would always remember the fun we had.

Thanks Aunt Linda and family for a fantastic Larsen reunion. You all did an amazing job!

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Towering Noodles

And now back to blogging about the Larsen Family Reunion before 2010's addition. After the magic show and before dinner we played what I will refer to as the towering noodle game. Each group was given a bag of "noodles" and a sponge.

The sponge was to wet the noodles to get them to stick together. The idea was to make the tallest tower of noodles.

It was a lot of fun and there was a lot of laughter and scheming during this activity and those that did not participate found other ways to have fun with the noodles.

I am not really certain which team won, but in the end all that mattered was the fun that was had and the memories that were made
http://picasaweb.google.com/happyhugger/ToweringNoodles?authkey=Gv1sRgCPqT4L25qYL77gE#

Mithing teeth!

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Friday, July 3, 2009

To My Family and Friends

May you have a Happy and Safe 4th of July!

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Various Reunion Activities

Here are a few more picture from the reunion. There were so many activities to keep the kids going and just enough time for the adults to visit and get reacquainted. Once again kudos to my Aunt Linda for an awesome job. Planning something like this must take a lot of work and she really pulled it off.

It is much easier to go through these pictures when the are separated into different activities. I have three new albums to post. In the 1st one, after the hike they had a bunch of activities for the kids. They colored (which I mostly missed because I was still on the hike.) the painted, made bead/button bracelets. The buttons were my grandmas from her button box and made tie dyed bandannas:

http://picasaweb.google.com/happyhugger/KidsStuff?authkey=Gv1sRgCNL2peHM7cKfgwE#

They had some stuff set up for the older generations to enjoy while the little ones were playing. They worked on a humanitarian project (knitting hats and tying quilts) and enjoyed visiting with others.