The Beal/Cannon Family: Beal Family Reunion

Sunday, July 4, 2021

Beal Family Reunion

My parents celebrated their 50 year wedding anniversary in February and we wanted to have a big celebration for it. My mom has been brainstorming ideas for a few years. They finally decided to have a vacation in a giant lodge in Ashton, Idaho over by Island Park. It was perfect! The house or whatever you call it was HUGE! It was perfect for accommodating my huge family. We all arrived sometime Sunday evening. That night my mom played a big family history game where all of the siblings had to act out various ancestors and people had to guess who they were for some prize money. I won a dollar! Heck yes, I remembered Mary Thorpe Beal's story. We just chatted after that. Monday morning a bunch of people played around the private pond. In the afternoon Justin planned and executed a big family scavenger hunt. He is the best! Scott and I went to Mesa Falls before dinner with our boys and Trisha and Travis. Right before dinner, we surprised our parents with a song with actions. This is a song my mom grew up with that her dad used to sing. My mom joined right in! The next day several people went to Yellowstone. Some of us went and saw some dude's cabin. Ha. I don't remember and it was something to do. That evening we went to West Yellowstone and watched Newsies at Playmill. My dad first saw my mom for the first time when she was performing at Playmill. The play was excellent. It was way too hot and too long but really well done. The next day we cleaned up and went home. It was a great time! The worst part was that the house had a giant yard and the sprinklers were on constantly the lawn was a marshland and we couldn't play on the lawn. That was annoying! Everything else was great!