The 2010 Time Capsule Reunion

My, how fast ten years have
gone by. A couple of months ago we unburied the time capsule that was buried at our family reunion in the year 2000. Ten years later we tried to save what was salvageable and dry out what was inside the stinky, wet box. Not everyone was able to be here on this tenth year reunion event but those of us that came had a wonderful time.

The day was filled with lots of good food, lots of children and lots of conversation.

The husking of corn!!!

 

All the girly, girls!!


In the evening, around the campfire, we handed out the letters that were written ten years ago. We talked about grandpa's journal and Aunt Jan agreed to transcribe it and get everyone a copy.


"AND..... this was grandpa's journal that was saved from the swampy time capsule."


Anders reading a letter from his mom and dad written ten years ago.


Grace and Garrett reading their letter from their dad.


Now is this trouble or what? Except the one on the right.... she is just precious!


Ken, Neil, Bret, Bart, Steve


Organized chaos with some fun stretchy fabric

Boys can turn anything into a game!!!!




THE FACES OF OUR REUNION

We are so grateful to everyone that came and enjoyed a memorable time together. I was busy fixing food and didn't get a picture of Thayne and Karen while they were here and I am sorry Mikan and Zach, your family picture got lost in outer space....I guess. I couldn't find it.

What wonderful memories we create by being together!!!



Summertime Visit

"Inside of every man
is a little boy who
wants to come out and play"
It's hard to believe that our little Garrett is becoming
a young man who wants to come out and play!!!

Well, reverse the seating arrangement and add a few years!!!!
Neil helped Garrett learn to drive the stick shift,
that rite of passage for a young man.

It didn't take long and Garrett was driving the
'53 Willys up the canyon. He told us he can hardly
wait to get his drivers license so he can come and
visit us anytime he wants.

While Garrett was here we went up Grey's River
to Murphy Lake. We drove higher up the canyon
and ate lunch right next to this stream.

It didn't take long and Garrett was seeing if
there was any fish in this little raging steam.

At Murphy Lake Garrett proceeded to find just
the right spot and even....

set out two lines at the same time. He and grandpa
had a contest to see who could catch the most fish.
It was a very fun day. Just what summers are supposed
to be like!

Memorial Day Observance #2

l. to r.: Hans, Bret, Elli, Meg, Tait, Ben, Zach, Anna, Mikan, Lila, Tam, Katie, Laura, Finn, Anders, grandpa took the picture.

This is Heber and Sarah's grave. What special memories I have of this cemetery and those buried here. When I was a little girl it looked more like "Boot Hill" with dirt and tumbleweeds. Aunt Laura did such a wonderful job of decorating all the family graves.....from brothers and sisters graves to great grandparents. Bless her heart!

We then drove to Paris, Idaho to visit the graves where my mom and dad are buried. When dad died mother planted three white birch trees by her family plot. There are still two of them alive. I showed the grandchildren the pictures of the people that are buried at this cemetery.

Bret with his family standing next to mom and dad's grave.

I think mom and dad would be very proud of their posterity!

Memorial Day Observance

For Memorial Day we all decided to go for a drive to Bear Lake and visit the graves of our family members who are buried there.

Bret and Mikan and families had never seen the memorial that was placed in the town park last September in Laketown, Utah. Their grandfather/great-grandfather Kenneth's name was engraved upon it along with three of his brothers that fought in WW II. One brother, Earl, was killed while learning to be a fighter pilot. Dad went on to serve in the Pacific as a fighter pilot

I loved the saying inscribed on this bench. I wish every American felt the same way!!!

All the grandkids loved swinging on these wonderful, old fashioned swings!

l. to r.: Katie, Finn, Elli, Ben, Tait.

Have you ever seen a two year old that wanted help? I don't think so. It is always, "Do it myself"!!!!

"See, Dad, I can do it myself!!!", says our little Ben.

Bret and his beautiful family.

I think Bret thanked me about three different times for having all of us make the effort to go and pay tribute to our family that has gone before us.

Mikan and her beautiful family. She also thanked us for going to Bear Lake for Memorial Day even though it was a full day with a couple of babies to care for. Notice the red stone building behind. This was once the only store in town and I used to walk down there as a little girl and buy penny candy or an ice cream bar.

After stopping and picking up Aunt Laura, which was a surprise for her, we went up to the cemetery where the Myers/Watson family are buried. This cemetery has the most beautiful view of Bear Lake.

I brought along a geneology picture sheet and we spent some time showing the grandkids where each family member was buried and a little about that person.

I can remember visiting this cemetery as a child and hauling up water in milk cans on the back of a trailer that was pulled by grandpa's tractor. It was always alot of work to pull all the weeds and water the plants.

We would always bring up lilacs and irisis and place them on the graves.

Memorial Day Work Project

For our Memorial Day Weekend work project we decided to see if we could find the time capsule that we buried in the year 2000 for our family reunion. We had placed an engraved rock with our last name and "Open 2010" on the top of the place we had buried it but because we had some fencing put on the property and the boys that installed the fence said they had ran into it and moved the box, it was not an easy project to find it. But after alot of proding and probing it was found and dug up.

But what we found was a box half filled with the stinkiest, dirty water...........ever smell a sewage plant?

Well we continued with our other project......

of cleaning up some dead trees that we had cut down. We are also landowners who are dealing with alot of beetle killed trees. Does anyone know someone high up in the Bureau of Land Management that actually cares and could do something for us in the western USA and save our forests? Good Grief!
See the time capsule in the back of the Ranger? Mikan and I got the fun job of seeing if anything could be salvaged. All the pictures were ruined but we were able to save the paper with writing on it. I don't know if anyone will be able to hold the paper long enough to read it again becasue of the stink but we did our best to save a ten year old memento for the families that had put something in the box for posterity sake.

The kids mostly played...they did help but you all know how work projects are.....

The guys do the most,

The little tykes think they are really helping.........

But the best part of any project is always the transportation.

Tait is getting to the age where he actually accomplishes something......

And in the end it is about being together and working...........

together as a family!!!!

Of course we could only have half of a good day......... But at least we didn't loose our power from this hail storm!!!!