Mann Family Reunion 2010

Adri and Trent were in charge this year and we went to a campground by Zion National Park, and to sum it up I would say it was a BLAST! We had a total of 16 grand kids, 10 adults (Mak couldn't make it, we definitely missed him!) and my Grandparents came up Thursday and spent the evening and Friday with us, which was such a treat!!

Just to recap what we did: Thursday we got there and set up camp, Friday morning we just let the kids run around and have fun, and then headed to a place that had some old looking buildings and things and took some family pictures. When we got back to camp we went swimming at the camp pool, so refreshing! The kids had a blast and some of them participated in some chicken fighting (you will have to check out the pictures to see them!). Then we went back to camp, ate dinner, made tye dye shirts for the kids (thanks Jenn and Nate), ate some yummy dutch oven desserts and sang songs around the camp fire! Saturday we headed into Zion and did some of the hikes, and it was a blast! Gorgeous scenery, being with family and just enjoying the day! Most of us went back to camp, Tyler went on a hike by himself, and Nate took Ethan, Kate and Haden with him on another hike. While waiting for them to get back we swam and let the kids run around. Haden had a blast and was so happy to have gone (Thank you Nate for taking him). I was worried he was going to whine or complain, but Nate said he did good and when he did complain he would say it in a joking way :) Nate told me a little story about Haden on the hike... there were signs where it had a footprint with a red circle and line through it letting you know to not walk on that part of the trail. Well there was a part on the hike where it had just a footprint letting you know to walk there, when they started to walk Haden made the comment that they weren't suppose to because it had the sign. So Nate explained to him that it was okay to, and Kate said because there wasn't a red slice through it. Haden responded with 'I wish I knew how to speak spanish'! Umm...Yeah that still wouldn't help him with understanding the signs, but he seems to think so :) After they got back from the hikes we ate, and then had our 2nd Annual Toughest Dad's Competition...Congrats to Tyler for taking home the title and the fish this year! Then we roasted marshmallows, and had a devotional by my parents which was great! We ended the night with putting the kids to sleep and my Mom, Nate, Dana, Adri, Trent, Jeff and I all staying up until like midnight talking. It was a lot of fun! Sunday we packed up, said goodbye to Dana, Tyler and their family and then all headed home. We ate tons of yummy food, thanks to everyone for their meals! It was such a fun weekend! Thank you to our families who helped make it possible for us to go (you know who you are), we can't even begin to express how much we appreciate it!! Thanks to Adri and Trent for putting on such a successful and fun weekend!

Here are some group pictures we took:
The grandkids with Grammy, Papa Dan and Grandma and Grandpa Larsen

The Mann Family 2010 (Mak was photoshopped in)

The Grandkids with Grammy and Papa Dan

Now onto the other pictures....there were too many to post, so I put them in an album! Click on the picture below to see all of them!

Mann Family Reunion 2010