Thursday, July 1, 2010

FAMILY REUNION

This years' Doxey/Gibson family reunion was the bomb.com!!!! We had a wonderful time. It was a great location with the campground and the lake ALL TO OURSELVES! It was AWESOME!!! Yipee!

We left on Saturday mid-morning after Dave had pulled an all-nighter at work Friday night... We headed out all 6 of us, in the truck. Yeah, it was TIGHT...(not in a cool way). We got to Provo around 7 and hung with the cousins. Sunday morning was Carol's much anticipated farewell. May I just say she packed em in? To the STAGE! She did a great job on her talk and then the open house afterwards was supreme.
Monday morning we headed out to Ferron, UT where our family reunion destination was at Millsite Campground/Lake. We started the day there with setting up camp and then lots of canoeing and kayaking and swimming in the lake. We had the WHOLE place to ourselves. The older boys did some cliff jumping , crafts and four wheeling. We had a ball. We ended that day with a great game hosted by Dan-- on how well do you know your aunts and uncles. It was awesome! S'mores too!
Then we hit the sack. A few people actually slept.
Tuesday we got up bright and early and went gun shooting!! Fun stuff. Hit the jet ski. ALL day. It was a hoot! Around noon the boat arrived and we got lots of turns on the boat tubing/wakeboarding/kneeboarding. It was so much fun. Four wheeling, running, biking, crafts tie dying shirts etc...Entertainment that night included watching home videos from Dan and Julie through the years. Great memories... scones with honey butter and off to bed for another not so restful night's sleep! :)
Wednesday we got up again bright and early, some went golfing, others hit the lake with the boat and the jet ski full force ALL day long. Four wheeling, cliff jumping and the works. Just after lunch a serious storm hit... we packed up and then kind of hung out in our cars till it passed.. a great napping opportunity. After the storm died down we hung out, took pictures in our tie dyed shirts and then ate dinner... then on the road we were. And let me just say, it was BRUTAL driving home. I don't remember a harder drive home EVER. We were soooo tired. It was even more cramped in the truck on the way home because we were all tired, sore, sunburned and cranky!!!!! But we made it home at midnight and stayed up til 1:30 am unloading.
This was a great reunion! One of our family's favorites by far! We had a blast! The company was outstanding and the location was excellent... and might I add the food... the food was delectable... mexi fest, pancakes/bacon, sandwiches,burgers/dogs, breakfast burritos, BBQ chicken sandwiches, spaghetti and meatballs... oh yeah...THANKS EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
It was a MUCH needed break for our family!! Now we are off to girls camp next week -- Me, Dave, Lindsey and Katie!! Matt and Elle will be "roughin" it at home!






































5 comments:

Cassondra said...

SO AWESOME!! My favorite place to be is out on a lake! It's been so long....makes me a little sad. These pictures brought back fond memories of family reunions on the lake with my own family growing up! I feel so happy FOR you guys! It sounds like it was as wonderful as the pictures show!!

Unknown said...

family reunions are the BEST! it sounds like you guys had a blast :)

Anonymous said...

I love that you said bomb.com

The Crane Family said...

Definitely right up there with the best!! We had so much fun with you guys! So glad you got home safe.
Awesome pictures- truly captured the moment :) esp- the flexing!!!

akdoxey said...

So glad to see that we missed out on the best reunion ever. I'm so sick of living out here- I want to be by family so bad. We missed you guys and thought of you every day wishing we were there. It really does look like fun- glad you got the break. Miss you guys!