James I Bird Family Reunion

I really look forward to our Family Reunions. The James I Bird is held every summer at the Moon Lake campground. It used to be in camp A... but it has gotten so big that they have had to move it to camp B for the last 10 years or so... and it is still growing. It is lots of fun to go camp up there... and we get to see cousins that we only see once a year up there. I hope they keep coming... or we won't get to see them at all. The weather was supposed to be bad all weekend... but except for the first night and Sunday when we came home... it was really nice. Our kids got very dirty... and no matter how many times we washed them... 5 minutes later they would be covered in black dirt again... but they had soooo much fun. The boys spent most of the time on their bikes... but I did talk them into playing catch... Wyatt, Willy and I even played 500. I was sad that I hadn't walked down to the beach this year... the kids got to go down with the older kids. My least favorite part is putting everything away when we got home... I am still doing laundry...

We played lots of cards... you can't go to a Bird 
reunion and not play cards.

Here are our three mighty hunters... they brought 
their blowguns and made targets out of anything 
they could find. They were even chasing the ground 
squirrels and had a stakeout by the outhouse for a 
while to see if the squirrels would poke their heads out.

more cards... we had a good laugh with this game... its 
called Spazz and for good reason... we all look like 
spazzes when we played this game.

Darby couldn't keep her cute face off of anything...

Like Father... like daughter...

This year the lake is filling up fast because there is 
still snow in the mountains and we will probably 
get some flooding.

The fishermen didn't have any luck this 
time... maybe next time.

This is one of my favorite things about camping...
I love to sit around the campfire and listen to stories 
of the past and present... not to mention the 
smores and hot chocolate...

Sadie had fun searching for money in the sawdust 
with her cousins... and she found quite a bit.

The boys were a little more competitive and each 
came away with handfuls... which they used for 
the cakewalk... so I didn't have to give them any 
money.

They love anything that includes water... Sadie 
smothered Clayton with a balloon right off the bat... 
Grandpa and Nancy were the last for their balloon 
to break... and it happened right on Grandpa... 
what bad luck.

I love these people so much... 
Aunt Connie, Aunt Hazel, Aunt Rae, 
Uncle Buddy & Aunt Pauline, and Grandma & Grandpa {Yvonne & Paul}

This is little William... he belongs to Ben & Mary... what a cutie!

We love our new camper... it has been sooooo nice and roomy...

This was the only place Darby could get down 
and enjoy herself without getting filthy dirty.

We had so much fun as a family...
and I look forward to next year...

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