Kenney Family Reunion

From August 7th to the 14th we went to Peoa, UT for a family reunion. Peoa is 15 minutes away from Park City. We all stayed in a huge house that was surrounded by 40 acres of land (and a random chicken coop, a dead calf, and an abandoned sports car). Everyday we did fun activities like boating, shooting, or four-wheeling. We also ate really good food and watched the Olympics. We also played minute to win it games and the "Crawford's game".

Here's some activities I remember us all doing:

Monday: Hamilton's made pancakes, boating, got really windy at the Lake, ATV rides
Tuesday: Ziplining, outlet shopping, shooting
Wednesday: Olympic park, rained, free-style ski jumps into pool, Ryan did ropes course and zip line at the kids discovery zone, Channing rode the chair lift and went on a hike with Justin
Thursday: Ikea, In-n-out, Alpine slide with Channing, clog in sewer line cause an over flow of poop, got on floors...yuck.
Friday: Boating, tubing with mom and Justin and we all fell out, Julia took family pictures, and family dinner at Ruby Tuesday, Justin heard the brakes grinding and made a bunch of trip to Heber City for parts to fix the brakes on Saturday.
Saturday: ATV, shooting, and some of the Ostler’s and Kenney’s left.
Sunday, We all packed up and left by 11am, trailer tire blew on our way home adding two hours to our trip. Crawford's came to our rescue and got a spare tire.

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