60 Years

My grandparents recently had their 60th wedding anniversary.
Over Memorial Day weekend we had a celebration in their honor.

The family. 7 kids. Lots of grandchildren.

Sadly, not everyone could be there.

My grandpa has been really sick for the past year or so.
He has been going through Chemo to try to help fight the blood disease. It's been rough on him. Real rough. My grandmother has been taking care of him but will soon be having her knee replaced. Hoping and praying for a quick recovery.

Catch up . . . C'mon. Hurry.

Here are some pictures from the big Dotson reunion at Gooseberry! It was loads of fun. Dustyn snapped a few photos so I thought I would share!  Most of these are from the talent portion of the weekend.  It's the only portion that we have pictures of!  :)  (And yes, most of them are very blurry - we have been struggling with that lately.  :)  But we try to not use the flash at all, so it gets tricky without a tripod.)

First we have Gabriella and Sharpay.  They are hotties,  huh?

And here we have Gabriella again.  Stunning.

Here we have the absolute best performance of the night.  I can't even explain it.  It was so funny and I have not laughed at hard in YEARS.  Oh my.  There is a video of it somewhere.  I would love to find it.  Little Miss C was so serious while her sisters were having so much fun  It was so funny.  You just had to be there.  :)

Here is Little Miss C being so serious and being a fabulous singer.  She is such a cutie.

Here we have the cast of HSM again.  Garbriella, Sharpay, Troy and Taylor (maybe.  Someone more up with HSM could help me out here.)  We were very lucky to have them there.  Seriously though, CamRee did an awesome job singing her song.  She sang one song all by herself and another one with the kids.  It was so good.  She is going to be a star someday!  :)   (Oh yeah, and in case you weren't sure, this is my niece CamRee, Brynlee, and HadiLee and my nephew Tryen)

Another picture of the High School Musical Hotties.

Here is our special guest that came and gave a spectacular performance.  So much talent!

This is actually a photo Dustyn took over Labor Day weekend at Fishlake.  I thought it was cool.

Home again, home again.

Our weekend was awesome! We had our family reunion up at Gooseberry (the one up Salina Canyon). Some of you may have even gone on field trip there when you were in 3rd grade! Of course, I never had the opportunity, but I hear it's lots of fun! I did finally hear the legend of Annie Bangs. :)

We stayed in cabins and there was plenty of room for our entire family! It was so much fun! Sadly, I never even picked up my camera. Dustyn did take a few pictures, but I haven't taken the chance to download them (it takes for-e-ver on his laptop). So I will get them soon!

We had a lot of fun activities. Washoo Tournaments, Arts and Crafts, Story Telling, Talent Shows, and much more. I will do a more detailed post about it later when I have pictures. Hopefully it will turn into a fun family tradition!

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I miss my laptop. Dustyn's just isn't the same. :( Hopefully I get it back this week (so I can get those pictures).

Well - I am off to play a game with Dustyn. I will catch up later. I hope! :)

Have a fabulous week ya'll.

By the way . . .

I will basically be MIA for a week or so. Miss me, okay?

We have a family reunion this weekend! Yay! Very excited!

And my computer is at Dr. Mac's getting fixed. She will be all shiny and new in a few days! Double Yay!

Until then, I will be around occasionally. Depending on how often I decide to steal Dustyn's computer. He doesn't really need it, does he? :) I already miss my bookmarks and RSS feed. :( But it will be coming home soon. :)

Have a fantastic weekend! I know I will! Life is fabulous!

Teeps Peeps Family Reunion

A few weeks ago, my mom's family had a reunion. It was a lot of fun to see everyone. We were only able to attend on Saturday, but it was a 3 day event with lots of food and fun.

Here are some pictures that we took.
Here are the kids playing on the slip and slide. The older kids went to the pool to swim while the younger ones played on the slip and slide and with water balloons.My cousin, Josh . . .
brought some yummy Krispy Creme donuts. Yum! Totally saved the day.  :) (not that it needed saving - but who doesn't love a donut?)

The girls and their cool sunglasses.  (

Grandpa borrowed Tryen's)

Here is everyone who attended the reunion. Of course this is no where near close to being everone. I think my grandparents have over 100 grandchildren/greatgrandchildren now, but I could be wrong. Someone who knows can help me with that. But I am sure it is close either way.

Cam. Try. Had.

We had a lot of fun while the kids were down for a few days for our family reunion. (more on that later)  My dad and I took the kids to the dairy.  They were completely goofy and silly.  But a lot of fun.  I got a Lemon Yobert which was really sour.  I tried and tried to get them to taste it.  Of course CamRee was the only brave one.  At first.  I was down to my last bite an I finally got Hadi and Tryen to taste it.  They wanted more.  But, it was all gone.  It was quite funny.

I tried to take a few pictures of them in the car, but CamRee loves the camera and kept getting in the center of my picture.  Silly girl! 

Afterwards we went to Grandma and Grandpa's House and played Chet's Wii.  We went bowling.  It was pretty funny.  They got pretty excited, as you can tell from Tryen's reaction.  Then we tried our hand at baseball.  They are awesome Wii players!



 

Next . . . Jackson Family Reunion

Every year we have a Jackson Family Reunion in Wayne County. When I was growing up it was something that I always looked forward too. And, not much has changed. Over the years the reunion has changed and that makes me sad, but we still have fun. We use to all show up Friday and stay in a Lodge in Koosharem with everyone all weekend. Then on Monday we would all go to all the Cemeteries in Wayne County and place the flowers we made through out the weekend on our relatives graves. Well - the Ranch was sold so we moved on over to Torrey. There we stayed at the Thousand Lakes RV Park all weekend. It was still fun, but just not the Lodge. Well last year, they decided to make it a one day reunion. :( So sad. So we meet in Bicknell at the City Park on Saturday and squish all of our traditional activities into one day.

This year, because of all the changes, my family decided to stay in Fishlake and camp and then just drive over to Bicknell on Saturday. We got to Fishlake late Friday night. Set up our tent and ate dinner. Of course, it snowed Friday night. But our awesome tent didn't mind.

On Saturday we headed on over to Bicknell. It was good to see everyone and spend time with our relatives that we see once a year. It just wasn't a good day for me. I was incredibly emotional. So my dad offered to take us fishing in the afternoon, so we left. So that was it. I was pretty bummed. Something I look forward to every year and it's over before I even started to enjoy it. I was especially sad since Dustyn and I missed out on it last year. We were in Pennsylvania. I guess there is always next year. But here are some pictures of our Saturday! I took over 700 pictures. I know.

Here is my mom . . .
And my dad . . .
My Grandpa . . . My Great Aunt making flower arrangements to take around to the Cemeteries. Our traditional auction. We use the money to buy plates, napkins, cups, etc for the upcoming year. Smart, huh? :)Playing outside on the slide! Weee . . .

Isn't she too cute? I love her!

This is my cute cousin Alicia and her daughter. Love them!

Chet. He's graduated, you know. And single too!

Dustyn - He's awesome. Of course he is!

On to fishing. After we left the reunion, we drove back to Fishlake and went fishing. We have been trying to catch a Mack. So with our polls out and ready for anything, we trolled and trolled. It was fun! But cold. It would be warm for a moment or two, then it would be snowing. Then the wind would blow, then it would snow. But I still enjoyed ever moment! Of couse, we didn't catch anything. So we went back to the Trailer/Tent and had dinner, and off to bed. Of course, it snowed/rained all night.

See the snow? :) The the serious Mack catching fishing pole?

On Sunday, Dustyn and I attended church at the Lodge. I love attending Church at the Lodge. If Dustyn didn't have meetings every week, I think we would spend a lot more time there. I mean we go camping nearly every weekend anyways - it would just make it easier than driving home late Saturday night. But the meeting was really good! There were a lot of things that the two speakers were talking about that I could really relate to! I really enjoyed it. But the funny thing that you don't see too often - during the sacrament service there was a bat flying around and swooping down low. I was amazed at how quiet the congregation remained, besides a few giggles here and there. Gotta love the Fishlake Branch!

Sunday we just spent time relaxing and taking a nap, of course. It was a nice relaxing day.

On Monday I was hoping we'd get to go fishing again, but the wind was blowing and it was still snowing off and on. So we packed up and headed home.

My brother. Yep girls, he's single!
My sister JaKell and her husband Brandon.

It was a fun weekend. I had a lot more stories to tell, but I have lost them all. My memory doesn't retain well. :P Oh well. If blogger would let me upload pictures, it would be a lot easier. lol This post has taken me like two hours! :P So I think I am done for now!! Ha ha!
Home sweet home! I love this valley!