Niederhauser Family Reunion

On July 18th we celebrated what would have been my Grandpa AJ Niederhauser's 108th birthday.  All of his posterity that could, came to a family reunion that day to celebrate.  We held it at a park in Clinton, Utah.

 

 

This is a picture of Grandpa sometime in the 1920s.

We ate a Costco birthday cake in his honor.

These are his children and their spouses (missing Uncle Lynn, who passed away several years ago)

I'm going to list everyone's name, that I possibly can, in this post.  Because years from now, when my posterity looks at these pictures in my blog book, they won't have to say, "I wonder who the heck that relative of mine is."

I will go from left to right in all of the coming photos.

 

Kathryn Wallace, Bob Wallace, Joanne Niederhauser, Karren Niederhauser, Shauna Niederhauser, Mark Niederhauser, Marylou Niederhauser, Marlene Niederhauser, Bruce Niederhauser, Berrie Niederhauser, Clare Niederhauser

 

These are some of my cousins and their spouses.

 

Top: Nate Niederhauser, Preston and Natalie Niederhauser, Curt and Amy Niederhauser, Dave and Necha Coombs, Jeff Niederhauser, Steve Niederhauser, Dave Grose, Scott Vaterlaus, Troy Niederhuaser, Ron Niederhauser, Mike and Debbie Christensen.

Bottom:  Carrie Niederhauser, Jill Cannon, Fran Niederhauser, Julie Grose, Carrie Vaterlaus, Tammy Niderhauser

These are some, but not all, of my first cousins (and most of my siblings)
Top:Preston, Jeff, Nate, Steve, Curt, Ron, Tyler, Bottom:
Necha, Jill, Becky, Julie, Carrie, Debbie

Then I went around and tried to get a picture of most of the people while they were eating.  I may have missed a few who weren't there yet.

The Christensens: Colby, Sophie, Debbie, Jessica, Mike, Brandon. (Debbie is my sister.)

Niederhausers: Jake, Tammy, Sara, Steve, Ryan.  (Steve is my brother)

 

Dallin and Karlie Niederhauser, Quin and Heidi Boardman (My nephew and niece)

Niederhausers: Clockwise from left: Clare, Carrie, Ivy, Preston, Natalie, two of their children (Mitt and a the little girl's name I can't remember) and Berrie.  Clare is my dad's brother.

Natalie, Preston, Major.  Preston is my first cousin.

Mark and Marylou Niederhauser (my dad's brother)

 

Necha, Joann, Mark Marylou, Troy's daughter (don't know her name)  Necha is my first cousin.

Jill Cannon (my first cousin), Marlene, Bruce (my dad's brother), Kathryn (my dad's sister), Shauna (my uncle's wife), Allie (Jill's daughter)

Fran and Jeff, my brother.

My first cousin, Nate, and three of his sons.

The Vaterlaus family: Maria, Scott, Carrie, Sheldon, Hannah, Leah

Ashley and her boys, enjoying the water balloon volleyball.

I was actually surprised at how many of my relatives came to this reunion.  It was so nice to see them!  I'm blessed with such a great extended family.

Bear Lake 2015

We had a family retreat with everyone but Steph, Jared and Shad (they are in New York) up at Bear Lake.  We stayed at the campground near Rendezvous Beach.

 

 

In the picture above, we are looking at what is in the picture below:  two Golden Eagles and their nest.  This was right in our campsite.

 

 

We made "smores in a bag" after dinner the first night we were there.

The next morning, after breakfast burritos, we went to the beach.  We spent the entire day there.

 

We rented a water trampoline.

After the beach we all went to get shakes.  Dave and I got the raspberry shakes that Bear Lake is famous for.

Then we went back to the campsites again.

The last day, we got up and went to Church.  Then had lunch and left for home.  I am pretty sure everyone had a great time on this little family vacation.

The 4th of July - 2015

Dave and I usually run the Cherry Days 5k.  But we were both still injured from our Half Marathon two months ago.

 

Luckily we got to watch Lily, Jack, Olivia and Holly cross the finish line this year.

We ate breakfast in the park.

Sat by the Mason family for the parade.

Holly had to work, so Dave and I took their three oldest over to the Cherry Days celebrations at the park.

 

 

We went over to Holly and Cody's to watch fireworks.  From their backyard we saw the fireworks of North Ogden, Farr West, Riverdale, and several others in the distance (could have been South Ogden, Plain City and Hooper, I think)

I have so much gratitude for all the men and women who sacrificed so much so we could have our freedom.  God bless America.