We all decided we wanted to stay together in a cabin somewhere. All we had to do was find a cabin that would sleep about 45 people for 2 nights. It was a lot harder than it sounds. Most cabins wanted a 3 night minimum stay and not many cabins can sleep 45 people.
It was October and we still didn't have a place. I was searching again on the Internet and this time found a place called " Grove" it was an old college dorm in Albion Utah with 15 bedrooms and 8,000 square feet! A bed for everyone! The only problem is the cost was too much, and we didn't know if the owner would let us stay for 2 nights. When we called the owner agreed to 2 nights and also knocked some money off if we paid cash up front. It was perfect!
The Hammer family had their family reunion last summer near Albion, which is outside of Burly and also near the City of Rocks. We all loved the area and loved that everyone had the same distance to travel...roughly 2.5 hours.
This is the lower level of the dorm. There is a kitchen and large eating area and several rooms. Most bedrooms have sinks, showers and toilets in the rooms. Each family had their own toilet and shower. That's 9 toilets and showers!!
This is the second floor which is all bedrooms and showers. The end of the hall is a sitting area and balcony.
This is a picture from the balcony. While we were there is snowed every day. It was also VERY COLD!
This is the 3rd floor, a gaming room and movie room. The big boys loved this room! And the adults loved a place to send all the kids.
Playing games with Grandma.
We all arrived at Campus Grove on Thursday the 30th. We had plans to go skiing at Pomerelle. There were about 25 people who wanted to go, so we headed up the mountain 7 miles to the ski resort. It was snowing and blowing so bad we couldn't see the road. There were several cars stuck and I had to roll the window down and hang my head out to even see anything! I would tell Joel if I thought he was driving off the road. We had 10 people in our Yukon. We did make it up to the top, but it took us an hour. We decided to drive back down and try again the next day.
On Friday (New Years Eve) we all drove to City of Rocks and went for a soak at Durfee Hot Springs.
After our soak, the skiers went to attempt getting to the top of the mountain again and the others went back to Campus Grove. We were happy to see clear skies! However, when we actually saw what we drove on the night before we were scared. If we would have driven off the road, we would have rolled to the bottom! We were excited to finally get to go skiing with everyone, only it was -10 degrees! Brrrrrrrr.
We could maybe do 2 runs and then had to go in the lodge to thaw out, then back out for another 2.
Austin and Coelton
Jan, Cade, Caleb, Joel and Chase
Jace and Caden
Donald and Julie
McKenna Hailey and Jeff
Joel and Natalie
We left after about 3.5 hours...none of us could feel our fingers or toes. When we arrived back at Campus Grove we enjoyed playing games and eating good food until we rang in the new year.
~2011~
January 1, we took lots of pictures. Grandma wanted to get a picture of the kids who all graduated last year. Connor is in this group too, he doesn't graduate until this year. He had to work, so couldn't come.
When I finished taking all of these pictures, Grandma kept finding more and more people to take pictures of. I didn't mind, because I love taking pictures.
Coelton and Paige are at BYU-I. Austin is at BYU.
Paige is 6 months older than Coelton and Austin who are just a week apart.
The kids in order from right to left.
Brysan, Caden, Cade
Alyssa, Maiya, Mckenna. Hailey
Chloe, Izzy, Hannah (all have January birthdays)
This picture has Riley, who is Andrew's little girl.
Jared, Hunter, Taeson, Stockton, Logan, Jackson
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