Lavar Hinton Reunion, 2012

This week was the Lavar Hinton Reunion.  Lavar is Ken's Dad, so it involves all of Ken's siblings and their families.  I think there were about 140 people there.  It was held at church-owned Heber Valley Church Camp (otherwise known as Camp Law of Moses- inside joke.)  It was a beautiful setting and facilities.  Ken and I attended with Shonna and her kids.  Because Blake started work as a dentist on Monday, he didn't come up until Tuesday night.  It was nice to have one of our children there as they haven't been able to attend in recent years.   It was fun to mix and mingle with the wonderful Hinton family.

 On Monday, we arrived in the afternoon and got set up.  We then had dinner (barbecued hamburgers and hot dogs), then had a rotating family on family activity, where we met with each other family and got caught up.  After that, we had an evening devotional.  Shonna and I sang "Let the Whole Creation Cry" acapella for that.  Shonna is so talented.  We had just a few minutes to prepare it that morning while we were still at Camerons.  I brought several pieces from my Keynote files and we decided on this one.  She had never seen it before, but sang it acapella  perfectly.  It is so fun to sing with her.  Then Uncle Mark told us fun and interesting stories from the life of Lavar.

Poor Lily bumped her head.

It didn't take Caleb long to make friends with other two year olds and play in the dirt.

But Heidi was his favorite.  She was so cute with the kids.

He also loved Uncle Clark (who gave him chocolate balls)

Activities on Tuesday morning included Minute to Win it, Beat the Ball, and this giant Twister.  

As people got out, they kept rolling it up.

The last four.  The last two were Hunter and his sister, Hadley.  It was quite the competition.  Finally Bryan declared a tie.  

Fun kid activities.

Can you guess what we had for dinner?  The kids loved the spaghetti dinner.

Tuesday evening was skits.  Each group acted out a scripture or other story.  

This is Joseph (Coat of many colors guy) getting thrown in the pit (garbage can.)

Little James stole the show in this reader's theater by the Don Hintons.

Lorene ended the evening sharing with us about her mother- Leora Hinton.

On the way home on Wednesday, we stopped by for a tour of Patty and Hal's beautiful new home.

In her sewing room, Patty has framed this old pattern of our Mom's.

Patty in front of her beautiful home.
We got home in time to watch a movie and the fireworks show.  Thanks to the  Hintons for a fun reunion!