Family Reunion

So we are finally home from our fun and family filled weekend. This last week end was my mother's family reunion up at Bear Lake. Getting ready to go was a bit of a nightmare, but we really brought it on ourselves. We hadn't done anything ahead of time to get ready before the day we had to leave (lesson learned). When we finally did get on the road and made it up to the camp site, things went pretty smoothly. Mike really wanted to cook some sort of dutch oven dish for dinner (he gets so few opportunities I couldn't say no).

 So we had spicy BBQ pork ribs, pasta salad, melon, and peach cobbler.
The ribs were very messy but very tasty. Per usual, we had more food than we could eat ourselves. Thankfully my cousins were willing to help us finish off our dinner.

The cobbler didn't finish until about 10:30pm and still had a dry crust on top, but it tasted really yummy all the same.

The food was good, but I think the best part was my happy Mike. He got to cook outside, and everybody liked how it tasted.

The best part of family reunions, to me, is seeing family that you hadn't seen in a while-catching up. I loved seeing all my cousins and their families. I may be a little extreme, but I am really into family.

Abram loved having other little kids his age and size to play with, but I think his favorite part was getting filthy from head to foot. (Sticky fingers and dirt are deadly combinations). He also really liked the rocks. We got after him every time he threw them so he decided to stick them in the bumper of the car instead.

Penny was, of course, her usual adorable self. Until...

we drove to the lake. Apparently Abram had given her a piece of chocolate behind our backs. In the 60 seconds it took to drive to the beach she got this dirty. I didn't think it was possible but apparently it is.
After the lake, we broke camp and headed to the caves. Unfortunately we were not able to get into the caves, but Mike and I needed to head to Idaho Falls anyway. We spent the rest of the weekend with Mike's parents, something we had been going through withdrawals from. We got to relax and and give the grandparents a chance to hang with the little grand-babies. All in all it was a wonderful family weekend.