First Annual John & Sharon Beck Reunion!!!

Our first Beck Family Reunion was held on August 7th and 8th. We went to Diamond Fork campground. I loved that it was so close to home. We packed up the night before so as soon as Byron got off work on Friday, we could head out. We arrived around 5:30 p.m. As we were arriving some yummy tinfoil dinners were being prepared. There was some water that ran close to our camp - I enjoyed taking the kids down by it and letting them throw some rocks in.

Here is Eric being an awesome cook with some corn on the cob and tinfoil dinners. I honestly have never tried better corn on the cob - it melted in my mouth. The tinfoil dinners were awesome also. I didn't even feel like we were camping due to the great tasting food.

Tanner & Bradley enjoying the outdoors.

Here are some fun pictures of the kids eating dinner with their cousins.

Bradley had a piece of corn that had a long handle for him to hold onto it due to the way it was shucked. He would carry it around while were were eating and even put it on the seat of the picnic table while he went to do something else. The long part he stuck into the picnic table seat and it stood up on its own. We all got a good laugh out of him.

After dinner, we watched some old Beck family videos. Byron was around Bradley's age in most of them and every time Bradley saw Byron in the video he would yell out, "Bradley." It was really cute.

The whole family watching the videos.

The kids had a great time roasting marshmallows. They loved every part of it and became big sticky messes afterwards.

THE SKUNK: Around 9:30 p.m., I was heading to the bathroom with Parker. We had another campsite really close to us. As I walked past their campsite they were all up on the picnic tables looking worried. They proceeded to tell me that there was a skunk right by me in the parking lot. They had a hose that they were spraying to get it to leave. I was so grateful for my flashlight. I started shining it around the cars and sure enough out comes a skunk and runs away. At that point I decided that we weren't heading to the bathrooms, but back to camp. We ended up telling all of the family about our discovery. About 5 minutes later Camille was walking over to get a chair when sure enough there was that darn skunk in our camp. Almost the whole camp jumped onto the picnic tables and had flashlights trying to find that pesky animal. I'm sure we were quite the sight:). The skunk meandered around for a few minutes then left camp. A lot of the children had never seen a skunk before and were quite worried. Luckily he left and didn't end up coming back.

Saturday morning, was spent having fun creating boondoggle key chains, puzzles, play dough, bingo, and having some water fun.

Bradley also wouldn't let his "Uncle Eric" out of his sight. He loves to follow him around making sure he does everything that he does. Bradley had to eat next to him and even help him while he was playing bingo.


Bradley and Cadan were so cute together. They were enjoying the freedom of camping and discovering new things together.
Around 12:00 p.m., we headed down to the water. Eric was nice enough to go in with the kids so Byron & I didn't have to. Most of the kids ended up going across the stream with Eric's help- the current was very strong. Everybody had a great time!

Johnathan ended up falling in soaking himself - he was a great sport! He even let me take a picture of him freezing cold.

Bradley loves looking at Timothy and loves holding him. I have never had a child interested at such a young age in holding another child. He does amazingly well and can't get enough of him.We all had a great time and are excited to be starting a new tradition with just our immediate family. What a worth while tradition where the cousins/siblings can spend quality time together. (We missed you Emily & Cooper.)