My sister Janice was in charge of the Burton reunion this year. The location was at Big Springs Park up Provo Canyon. I was unable to attend the last two reunions, so it was fun to once again be reunited with family members I haven't seen for a while.
The day started with a mountain bike ride for those diehards who like excitement and have a lot of stamina. Ryan, Jared, Cheryl, Parker, and Kyle all participated in this ride which was led by their cousin Sean Foster. I understand that what was supposed to be a pretty easy ride turned out to be more difficult than anyone anticipated, but they were all troopers and survived triumphantly.
Interestingly, 29 of my parents 40 grandchildren attended the reunion. Five attendees (Jonathan, Emily, Bryan, Katelyn, and Jordan) aren't in the picture. They arrived too late, unfortunately.
(Pictured here: Bottom row: Kellie, Cheryl, Jeni, Brad, Sean, Angela, Jamie.
Middle row: Amberly, Heather, Paul, Jana, Emily, Ashlianne, Jeremy.
Top Row: Matthew, Michael, Ben, Kyle, Ryan, Jared, Eric, Nathan, Christopher, and Trevor.
(Grandchildren missing from the reunion: Melanie, Alisa, Raymon, Tami, Craig, Michelle, Dan, Allison, Kristen, Blake, Derek)
Ryan thought it would be fun for our family to wear Burton Snowboard shirts so he brought enough for most of us in our immediate family. He is going to see if the Burton Snowboard Company will sponsor our reunion next year so everyone can have a shirt. I hope he is successful!
This is the only picture I got after Ethan, unfortunately, had an accident on his bicycle. He got pretty banged up after trying to avoid hitting Ella when she had to stop suddenly to avoid a car. Many parts of his body were cut and scraped up: shoulder, side, hand, knees. Dr. Neal said that the cut on his right knee probably needed stitches, but Eric's first aid kit had steri-strips so those were applied instead. Ethan was pretty miserable. I hope he is healing well.
Janice asked Gayle and I to play the ukulele so my siblings and I could sing "Open Up Your Heart and Let the Sunshine In" - a song my mother used to sing. She also played the ukulele. Her brother brought it back from his mission to Hawaii. It was a lot of fun singing with my siblings.
Front row: Jane, Gayle, Janice, Joan
Back row: Neal, Kent, Phil
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