Eddington Family Reunion 2010

This year the reunion was held at the Uintah County Youth Camp just outside of Fort Bridger, WY. Leon wasn't able to take the time off of work, so it was just me and the kids this year. It has been several years since I've been to the Eddington family reunion, and it was great to see everyone.

The first thing the kids found was the fuseball.
Uncle Brian Cragun got a fire going each night, which the kids loved.
The kids also loved the playground, even though it was pretty much just dirt. The first evening they spent hours out there checking it out and exploring the surrounding area.

Jayden has always had a thing for Maddie. The kids were such troopers on the geocache hike. My dad had placed geocache buckets along the trail, split us into teams, and gave us GPS coordinates to the caches. It was a great way to keep the kids motivated through the hike.

This was our geocache team up at the farthest cache above the pond. (Alisun, Aimee, Daniel, Maddie, Dalton, Laurel, Jayden, Cameron, Taylor, Dave, Derek, McKenna, Landon, and Ethan)

Back at the lodge Great-Grandma had her traditional scavenger hunt for the kids. We don't go to every reunion, but my kids remember this activity and look forward to it.

Great-Grandma figured the older kids would find the scavenger hunt a bit too easy, so she had the over-12 kids hide the prizes. I must say that Dallin felt quite important and grown up to be on the hiding end of the hunt.

After lunch the group headed up to the pond for some canoeing and fishing. We called Uncle Scott's canoe the "School Bus."

Uncle Doug was pretty serious about catching a fish, which he eventually did once he abandoned the canoe and all of the crazy kids. Isn't there some child labor law being broken here?

Jayden figured out how to finagle the fish food dispenser to get one or two pellets at a time for free. What a shyster - I'm so proud.

That evening we played some "Minute to Win It" games. Great-grandma even got in on the action.

Needless to say, some of the Eddingtons got a bit competetive with these simple games. It's all about the time, afterall - right?

Even though Leon was not there to protect me from the wild squirrel that got in our cabin, we had a great time. I even learned how to play Pinochle - thanks Alex, Christian and Jeff for finally initiating me into adulthood.