Welcome to the 2007 Reunion Page

Happy 40th!!!

    This years reunion was once again a blast as always.  The best part was...No Rain!!  Some people arrived on Thursday while most everybody else arrived at various times on Friday.  When most of us arrived and checked in at the office we noticed the signup sheet for the Mr. Jellystone Pageant. If you haven't heard about this... It is a Pageant held by the campground where men dress up as women and try to win the crowds vote. Well back to the story..... the list had only one name. Now this wouldn't normally be odd but what was odd was that the name on the list was Lester Arrington. If you know Lester then you know he didn't put his name on the list. So basically the whole reunion everybody was trying to find out who put his name on the list.  As far as I know, nobody ever found out who did it.

    The first day as usual was spent visiting and talking to everyone we hadn't seen in a while and going to Wal-Mart shopping for groceries. As usual it didn't take Rusty long to have the ladies chasing him around.

Friday night was spend around the family camp fire.  I missed most of this cause I was being lazy in my cabin...Shame on me. But I did get to sit by the fire a little bit.

     Saturday started out with the smell of bacon and eggs filling the campground. After breakfast most everybody went their own way. Some went to the pool while others went to the lake or did any of the other activities around the campground.  We even got a surprise visit from Yogi Bear.

One event that the family is always a part of is the Sand Castle contest...And you know we won first place.  Last year we also came in first, but it was a tie with someone else who did a Yogi Bear head. Check out these photos.

    As always, on Saturday afternoon we had our family dinner.  There was tons of food to eat and did I mention....NO RAIN.  Sorry about that. If you remember last year, it rained just a little bit.  Anyway...after the good eating we had our annual Family Auction.  This year instead of Ralph Lee being the host, we had a new host. As you recall Zach purchased the right to be the new host by buying the auction hat last year.  He did a pretty good job if you ask me....Keep it up Zach!

    As you can see we had lots of items to sell. We had things from hand bags to quilts, and even a tasty ham biscuit. After the auction the smaller kids, not to be confused with us bigger kids,  tried their best to bust open a piñata. Here's a few of them in action.

    Saturday night we all gathered by the fire and Ralph Lee gave a speech about the importance of family. After this speech we had a vote to see who would carry the spirit stick for the year.  After the vote he handed over the Spirit Stick to Lester Arrington.  Lester then won the privilege to hold onto the stick and add something important to him to it.  Then next year he will hand it off to the next family member.  After all that there were, hotdogs, hobo pies, marshmallows, and other tasty things roasted on the fire.

    Sunday morning everybody started packing up after breakfast. Afterwards,  they went around saying their goodbyes. Once all our goodbyes were said, we all left to travel back home. So  until next years reunion comes along..............