In August of 2015 my family was in charge of the Van Tucker family reunion. My parents reserved a campground in Lehi that we have been to several times. It is not actually in the mountains, but it is in a secluded part of the city with several trees and is close enough that everyone can get to it quite easily.
We drove to the campsite on Friday afternoon. The kids were very excited to get to spend time playing with cousins. Leah was so excited, she could hardly stay awake on the drive there. Actually, this is what happens to Leah whenever we take a drive longer than 20 minutes.
Someone brought these little dinosaur toys and Corbin found them to play with. This kid is so funny. He has this thing with arranging his toys in a line. He would line up the dinosaurs on the bench. Then he would slide them one at a time along the bench until they were all lined up again on the bench on the other side of the table. Then he would start it again.It kept him entertained for so long. And if any one messed up his line of dinosaurs, he would get really upset. He does this exact type thing with cars. He likes to be very orderly when he is playing. Cracks me up.
When I was growing up, we would go camping as a Tucker family quite often. It is one of my favorite childhood memories. And one of the best parts of camping was always the food. My Grandpa Tucker loved to cook and was an amazing chef. His sons (my dad mostly) inherited his passion for cooking. Dutch ovens were used when camping a lot (and even if we weren't camping, they were used a lot). I remember having a lot of sour dough pancake breakfasts while camping. Another favorite is an omelette bar. Everyone brings an array of their favorite ingredients and several frying pans are used to make each person their custom made omelette just they way they want it. That is what we were having this morning. I wanted to get a picture of some of the chefs working on breakfast that morning to help remind me of all those great food memories.
These are just a couple of cute pictures I got of Taysom playing by a tree. He was having a grand time just doing his own thing.
Here's Paige and Trey hanging out in the pack and play while Trey took a nap.
Later Marcus and Alison came with their kids. So I got a few pictures of Abbi and Paige in the pack and play together. Abbi was totally fascinated by Paige. Paige wasn't as amused with Abbi getting in her space.
On Saturday we mostly just enjoyed spending time visiting and eating together. We even played a a bingo type game using the names of family members in the squares. The kids played and played and played together. You can't tell from this picture, but Leah was so dirty from all her playing with cousins. She had a grand time.
The trees in the campground were great for climbing and the kids had a very hard time resisting the urge to be in them. So we decided to put the kids in a tree and take a picture. Grandma Tucker even joined in the fun for a picture with her great-grandchildren whom she loves so much. I just wish Grandpa Tucker could have been there in person too. Without a doubt he loves these kids very much too. And because he was such an amazing man, I'm sure the kids would love him also.
At the end of the day we packed up all our camping gear and headed back home. It was a fairly short drive, but it didn't take too long for these tired kids to zonk out. I guess that means another successful family reunion was in the books.
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