Pugmire Family Reunion 2008

What a glorious thing that Heavenly Father has blessed us with in Families!!! I LOVE family reunions! It was especially great for me going to this one b/c some of my cousins have blogs too and so I've been able to keep up on what's going on in their lives for the last several months. So it didn't feel like we had to catch up for the last year when we saw each other. We had such a fun time. We got up there a day late b/c Jason couldn't get off work but when we did..it was a packed adventure. :D After staying up until 4am getting the truck packed thursday night, we finally got out of the house around 10:30a Friday morning. We picked our normal spot for sleeping (down in the basement of the lodge, and thanks to Aunt Sonja we didn't have to sleep on just the extra padding we had brought...she let us borrow her extra air mattress. (Thanks Sonja! It helped Jason so much! -I didn't mind the benefit one bit. ;D) I got my hair done by cousin Kiley...I love having someone else do my hair! We decorated picture frames...which reminds me I didn't take a pic of that. :( Jason made a really sweet one for Josh. And then after dinner that night I stayed in the kitchen for several hours making 3 pies. 2 for the silent auction and one for my dad and gpa (lemon meringue, blueberry, & peach) It took me a lot longer than it normally does b/c I was enjoying the company of cousins ( Tara and Kelly and a few others that stopped in to say "You're STILL in here???) talking to me more than being focused on the pie-making...but they still turned out even though I had to start the lemon one over. ;D We of course stayed up late and talked and played games. Saturday is always the biggest day of the reunion. We do our family raffle and silent auction where everyone brings stuff to donate to it and then we buy tickets and put our names on them hoping to be drawn out...and/or we can bid on the silent auction items. -We do this to raise $ for the next year's reunion. -they had a contest during the raffle this year of who has the best and most excited reaction to their winning something. Tami won it HANDS DOWN!!! She is such a hoot!! In between the auction and the dinner, we played outside in the jump house that Tara rented (that was a BIG hit with the kids!) and played dodgeball with sponges...the funniest part was when the kids decided to attack the adults that were just enjoying themselves on the sidelines. Then Saturday night we had a fun program spotlighting some of the talent that we have in the family. and of course part of the that is always the hilarious Improv Skits that Uncle Rex writes b/c we have a lot of "characters" in our family if you know what I mean. This year the theme for the skit was super heros. Jason was mighty mouse...in minnie mouse ears with a big bow on em. LOL. The running line in the skit was about Troy's big clown tie making his butt look big. (which afterwards he got a chastening from his 5 year old son how he shouldn't be shakin his bum in front of the family. LOL) while the skit was going on...I was helping Jared and Lisa in the kitchen with making 4 big bowls of the YUMMY family recipe caramel popcorn. mmm makes my mouth water just typing about it. :D For my talent this year I sang a song that I picked on Thursday...it was "I love my life" by Jamie ONeal. Its just a fun upbeat country song. Then instead of doing a second song, I had Josh dance. He was a little shy this time, but he still did a great job. After the talent show, we did line dancing with all the cousins and some of the aunts which included 'boot scootin' boogie', 'fishin in the dark', the 'Macarena', and of course the "chicken dance"and then we learned a choregraphed dance to the music of "High School Musical" choreographed by Jesi and Amanda. It was awesome!!! and so much fun. I hate seeing how big my BUTT has gotten but it will be a different story next year, I've decided!

After I was officially tired from all the dancing, we stayed up and talked...and watched/listened to Josh and Ethan playing "Go Fish". Ethan was HILARIOUS!! I can't mimmick him very well but we were getting a hoot out of listening to him describle the coke cards to Josh. So funny...while that was happening I was hangin with Kenny and Troy telling each other jokes and riddles. About midnight I headed off to bed with Josh (jason had already crashed) or so I thought...he was downstairs talking with Ben and Kelly. So we finally get to bed and then about 3am I hear Ben startle awake and get up...he had gotten a face full of water from the rain coming through the roof where the owners had been doing contruction and it filled the heating vents and started raining on us downstairs. It was NASTY water...luckily Jason and I weren't right under them. We ended up taking everything upstairs and sleeping the rest of the time up there...well Josh and I did anyway...Jason decided he might as well just leave so he could make it back home for bishopric meetings and ward conference. So needless to say...a rough night. Sunday we had our usual storymony/testimony meeting...conducted by Van (yeah!!! -He's usually not there for it.) After that we had a slide show put on by Aaron from the pics he'd collected from everyone (I had taken 500 pics lol) We also got to see a video archive of a previous year's skit...that was Funny!!! Cousin Gordon showed some pics of the Sea of Galilee (sp?) and how much it looks like Bear Lake. We had lunch and then it was clean and go home time. Sad to see another reuinion come to a close but it was so wonderful! Another highlight for me was meeting Amy's daughters and friend Briann, Cami and Liz. They were so funny! I'm def going to have to spend some time over at their house this year! Well that's my summary of the family reunion....can't wait til next year!
Here's a link to our photobucket photo album...it was the only way to get all 447 pics on...(I deleted some)