Monday, August 25, 2014

Puppies and camping for a week @ the Andrus Family Reunion

The Andrus Family Reunion is a highlight we look forward to all year long!  It is up at Tusharlake Campground up Beaver canyon.  It is all of Joel's extended family (his grandpa James Andrus's 7 kids, grandkids, and some great grandkids).  It has grown and lasted longer each year it seems and is now from Monday-Saturday.  You can come anytime throughout the week, most of Joel's siblings and parents come up Monday (that is all 16 adults, 40 grandkids, 5 dogs, and 6 new puppies).  We were only missing Nate this year!  Throughout the week there is close to 250 people that attend it is pretty much the whole campground! We always eat lots of good food, never get enough sleep, and have plenty of fun in the dirt!  My kids just seem to disappear and play which is wonderful!  There is enough cousins and they seem to all get along so well.  The week went by way too fast for us all!  The first part of the week is just a time to fish, canoe, build forts, play cards, human Foosball or whatever.  Thursday-Saturday it is more organized where there are the games, foot races, crafts, line dancing, auction, the country store, a movie night.  This year we didn't get our usual spot and we had to squeeze into a smaller campsite but we all still had a wonderful time.
 These puppies had plenty of love and were constantly held the entire week!

 Luke REALLY wanted to bring this guy home!  My kids want a dog so bad!
This might be the only picture that I got of Megan only because she was always on the go.  She would check in to eat which was nice!  Notice in the background all of our cups hung up.  It cuts down a lot on paper cups.

 Jessica loved Alex and Lacy and couldn't leave them alone.  Good thing they didn't mind her constantly smothering them the whole time! 

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