brady reunion

Get comfy people. This post could be a bit long due to the amount of pictures. Here's the lowdown on our recent Brady family reunion at Heber Valley Camp. Oh yeah, a few notes to begin: My parents were not able to attend the reunion since my Dad had been in the hospital for the past week. We missed them VERY MUCH! And MANY THANKS to Micheal for helping transport our family to and from the reunion. We also missed Kathleen and Kara, who are off doing humanitarian work in Peru for 10 days. With all that noted, here we go: We spent a couple hours on Challenge Course 2. Here's Kitt, Micheal, Michelle & Chris working together on the land ski challenge.
Here's John, GayLynn, Andy, Brady & Mike also on the land skis:

It is family tradition to take a cousin picture. Cousins are lined up in order of height. I'm pretty darn sure we all took this picture from the wrong angle, but here's how the height line worked out: Chris, Mike, Mark, Josh, Randy, Robert, Brady, Andy, Kitt, Nicola, Randi, Michelle, Lisa, Spencer, Klaire, Katey, Alisa, Jared with Matthew, Ryan, Colten, Kaymi, Jacob, Stephen, Trevor, and GayLynn holding Alexa and Matthew S. I hope I didn't leave anyone out!

While the bigger people were at the challenge course, Karen tended the littler people at the camp and helped them make stick horses and cowboy gear. Here's those cute cow-kids: Matthew, Colten, Kaymi, Trevor, Stephen, and Jacob.

I just love this picture of Colten and Jacob enjoying watermelon together.

Here's our pie eating contest. No hands allowed. Karen makes the yummiest chocolate pie, too bad we were trying to gulp it down instead of enjoying it!

Yours truly putting face into pie.

Jacob going after it.

Ryan showing off his pie face with Mike (the winner) in the background.

A fun part of the challenge course is climbing this pole...

walking across the beam...

and enjoying the zipline down! This is Jared.

Here's Ryan, but the pictures are in the wrong order. The zipline...

the beam...

the pole.

We also got a chance to enjoy a little boating on the lake. There are two kinds of canoes and peddle boats available for cruising around. This is the "R" boat -- Ryan and Robert.

I think Matthew was enjoying the cool breeze and letting Mom & Dad have a workout on the peddle boat.

Jacob -- not quite sure about the look on his face, but he enjoyed being on the lake too.

There is a huge sandbox on the lake shore filled with buckets, bowls, and shovels. The little kids had a hard time deciding which was more fun -- the boats or the sandbox???

We all had a fun time together and hopefully made some memories. Thanks Karen, for putting it all together this year!