Liston Reunion

It is always fun to have a Liston Reunion. Even if we all live next door to each other, we always seem to have a fun summer get away.  This year we went to Panguitch, Utah to honor a great great great great Grandpa of my mother in laws. But first we had to play at Panguitch Lake.

That meant throwing knives.  Which turned out to be the kid's favorite activity.

 Shooting with bows and arrows.  Jack and Aiden were both excellent shots.  Jack goes to Grandpa Liston's house often to practice shooting.  He loves being with his Grandpa.

 Hanging out at camp.  Eliza and Paige spent a lot of time coloring in the trailer and collecting rocks.

 Swimming in the creek.  It was not warm enough in my opinion for such a thing, but that didn't stop Aiden and Kyler.  What does stop them?  I haven't figured that out yet.

( I liked this picture of the boys contemplating the creek.)

 Blowing bubbles!

So that is what we did before we went to town.  Then we headed in to Panguitch for some festivities. Friday night we had a dutch oven dinner and watched a play about 7 men who walked across the mountain from Panguitch to Parawon (is that how you spell it?) in the middle of the winter to bring back food for their community.  They did this by placing on quilt in front of the other and walking on those quilts to keep from sinking in the deep snow.  Jesse Louder was the leader of the group and he is our relative.

They have a little monument set up to the quilt walkers and here is Aiden on Jesse Louder's bench.

Then we participated in a quilt walking race down the main street of Panguitch.  Here are Russell and Aiden getting ready to start.

And here is Aiden next the the statue helping him spread out the quilt.

We saw a tractor parade and went to a tractor pull.  And we all agreed we never need to go and see another tractor pull, not that exciting!
We had a fun time learning about one of our ancestors and being with our Grandparents and cousins!