Final Schedule and Reminders

Reminders

1.  Bring your t-shirts!
2.  Make sure you are prepared for all your assignments (see schedule below)
3.  Email Mom and Dad to let them know what kinds of food you and your family would like for breakfast or lunch (cereal or other easy breakfast foods, sandwich meat, bread, chips, other snacks).  If you are choosing to not be part of the communal breakfasts and lunches, please let them know that as well so they know how many to buy for.
4.  Email Mom and Dad to let them know what ingredients you need for the dinner that you are in charge of.  (Alternatively, you can buy food when you get there --  there is a grocery store.)
5.  If you have kids, help them memorize the general authorities.
6.  Come prepared with a joke for joke night! (Each family member can tell a joke)
7.  Let Emily and Richie know what you/your family member's entries will be for the talent show.
8.  It will likely be cool (especially at night) up in the mountains.  Pack appropriately!!

Final Schedule and Assignments

Room Assignments
Downstairs bedrooms (2) - Jenny's family (will bring own pack-n-play); Kevin's family
Bunk room - 8 oldest cousins; alternatively kids may move mattresses into parents' rooms
Study with queen sleeper sofa - Kristen's family
Loft with queen aero bed - Eric
Top level bedrooms (4) - Michelle's family in King Bed with twin chaise; Mom and Dad in Queen Master Bedroom; Emily's family and Carma's family in the other two King Bedrooms.  (Mom to bring pack-n-play for Maddie)

Dinner Night Assignments (5:30-6:30 p.m)

Friday - Jenny's family/Mom and Dad:  taco salad
*Dinner bell:  Spencer and Joshua

Saturday -Kevin's family/ Kristen's family: Pulled pork, hot dogs, baked beans, corn muffins, watermelon, and lemon freeze
*Dinner bell: Grace and Anne

Sunday - Michelle's family/Emily's family: Spaghetti and meatballs, green salad, breadsticks, peach cobbler
*Dinner bell: Anna and Rachel

Monday - Carma's family/Eric: Beef enchiladas, fruit salad, will also make a special treat for FHE
*Dinner bell: Nico and Thurman

Tentative Schedule with Assignments

Thursday afternoon/ night: arrivals, begin working on t-shirts

Friday morning
9:30 a.m. Morning Devotional - Mom and Dad

10:00 a.m. Kid Olympics - Jenny's family

More t-shirt work (for those getting in too late Thursday) 

Foosball tournament (Thurman)

Friday afternoon
Free time - Kristen's family to provide a brochure of local activities in Breckenridge
Late afternoon - Walk (Kristen and Dave)

Friday night
Celebrate Emily's birthday
7:00 p.m. Joke night - Carma's family
Dance party - Mom and Dad and Nico

Saturday morning
7:30 a.m. 5K race - Emily's family
French Toast Breakfast - Thurman and Carma 
9:30 a.m.  Morning Devotional - Eric
10:00-11:00 a.m.  Stations for Kids* - Kevin's family/ Michelle's family/Kristen's family
Foosball tournament

*Each station will be 20 minutes.  Kids will be divided into three groups and rotate through the stations.  (Group 1: Nico, Anna, Grace; Group 2: Spencer, Anne, Rachel; Group 3: Thurman, Joshua, Caleb, Courtney)

Saturday afternoon
1:00-2:00  Emily-squared baby shower for all women and girls who want to attend
Early afternoon:  Men and boys activity -  water balloons:  Aaron & Greg

2:00-4:30  Free time

Saturday evening
4:30-5:00 Family Pictures
7:00 Talent show - Emily's family


Sunday morning
Sacrament meeting 10 am
Primary to follow back at lodge after lunch - Emily P and Jenny in charge; Carma and Mom singing time

Sunday afternoon
General authorities recitation by children - Michelle
Free time
Foosball tournament

Sunday evening
7:00 Family Time - "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Bylund Style."- Emily's family
7:30 "Watch Me Time"

8:00 Popcorn and watch the stars come out

Book Club --Happiness Project (Carma)

Monday morning
8:00 a.m. Morning Walk - Kristen and Dave
9:30 a.m. Morning Devotional - Kristen's family
10:00 a.m. Stations for kids* -  Carma's family  /Mom and Dad /Emily's family
11:00 a.m. Face painting - Kristen
Foosball tournament

* Each station will be 20 minutes.  Kids will be divided into three groups and rotate through the stations.  (Group 1: Nico, Caleb, Rachel;  Group 2: Grace, Spencer, Thurman;  Group 3: Anne, Anna, Courtney, Joshua )

Monday afternoon
Free time
Hike (Kevin's family)

Monday evening
Presentation of Foosball Awards (Thurman)
7:00 p.m. Family Home Evening - Mom and Dad

Tuesday morning
Pack up and leave.... so sad. 
 

Other non-scheduled, ongoing activities could include...
Wii, darts, kuub
Movies in theater room
Games
Amazing Race activities -?

Answers from Property Owners

Here are answers to our questions:

Yes towels are included

Not a back yard to play in, there is a patio & large deck

Most appliances are there unless someone snatched some without us knowing. Pots, pans, griddle, blender, toaster, mixers, baking sheets etc.

There is the Burro Trail that you can walk to, its not a park but it has a stream and it beautiful. Kids love it. The elementary school  is close and downtown has a play area for kids. You may walk to these.

Yes there is an iron & ironing board

The main freezer is a bottom freezer. There is another freezer (side by side fridge) in the laundry room. Plenty of room

UPDATED: Next Iteration and some other things

Updates in red below.

Well, now that it's July, we can say, "The family reunion is next month!"  I think everything is coming together well.

Thanks to everyone for their thoughts about T-shirts.   Emily Bylund has come up with a great idea.  Every family can bring their own T-shirts (and choose their own colors) and then as part of the reunion she will organize "freezer stenciling" for a logo for the shirts.  This will allow us to have different colors per family and also to be able to have the right size shirts for younger kids.  Thanks Emily for being willing to do this!

Colors taken:

Mom & Dad - 

Carma's fam - navy

Eric -

Michelle's fam - light green

Kevin's fam - light aquamarine

Jenny's fam - white

Kristen's fam - tangerine

Emily's fam -Dark red

I have a couple assignments that I still need people to take on:

1.  Contact the property owner with the questions listed in the previous blog and the comment. (I have sent these to dad).
2.  Still need a volunteer/volunteers to be in charge of the "Men and Boys activity" during the Emily-squared baby shower Saturday afternoon.
3.  Be in charge of the morning walks on Friday and Monday.  

Regarding meals, sometime in the next few weeks, talk to whoever you are paired with and figure out what you would like to make.  We will need to give ingredients to be purchased to Mom and Dad who are planning to do a big Costco trip (unless it's too much to do all of that at once).  Let me know also and I will post it to the blog so we don't have people making the same thing multiple times (ok, I know that is not likely, but still).   We will also need to give requests for breakfast and lunch food to Mom and Dad (types of cereal, etc.)  We have decided to keep the breakfast/lunch food bill separate from the dinner bill for people who want to buy their own breakfast/lunch food.

Here's the latest, revised schedule/assignments per everyone's earlier input.

Room Assignments
Downstairs bedrooms (2) - Jenny's family (will bring own pack-n-play); Kevin's family
Bunk room - 8 oldest cousins; alternatively kids may move mattresses into parents' rooms
Study with queen sleeper sofa - Kristen's family
Loft with queen aero bed - Eric
Top level bedrooms (4) - Michelle's family in King Bed with twin chaise; Mom and Dad in Queen Master Bedroom; Emily's family and Carma's family in the other two King Bedrooms.  (Mom to bring pack-n-play for Maddie)

Dinner Night Assignments
Friday - Jenny's family/Mom and Dad: taco salad
Saturday -Kevin's family/ Kristen's family: Homemade pizza
Sunday - Michelle's family/Emily's family:
Monday - Carma's family/Eric: Chicken and beef enchiladas, will also make a special treat for FHE

Tentative Schedule with Assignments

Thursday afternoon/ night: arrivals, begin working on t-shirts

Friday morning
Morning Walk - Kristen and Dave
Morning Devotional - Mom and Dad (I thought we could do these gathered together after breakfast before the morning kids' activities start).
Kid Olympics - Jenny's family
More t-shirt work (for those getting in too late Thursday)

Friday afternoon
Free time - Kristen's family to provide a brochure of local activities in Breckenridge

Friday night
Celebrate Emily's birthday
Joke night - Carma's family
Dance party - Mom and Dad

Saturday morning
5K race - Emily's family
French Toast Breakfast - Thurman & Carma 
Morning Devotional - Eric
Stations for Kids - Kevin's family/ Michelle's family/Emily's family (one idea is to a little craft or art project)

Saturday afternoon
Early afternoon:  Emily-squared baby shower for all women and girls who want to attend - Carma, Mom, Kristen
Early afternoon:  Men and boys activity -  Aaron?  Greg?

Late afternoon:  Free time

Saturday evening
Family Pictures (if Leslie's family joins us) 
Talent show - Emily's family


Sunday morning
Sacrament meeting 10 am
Primary to follow back at lodge after lunch - Emily P and Jenny in charge; Carma & mom singing time

Sunday afternoon
General authorities recitation by children - Michelle
Free time

Sunday evening
Family Time - "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me Bylund Style."- Emily's family
"Watch Me Time"
Popcorn and watch the stars come out
Book Club --Happiness Project (Carma) *unless there are objections


Monday morning
Morning Walk- Kristen and Dave
Morning Devotional - Kristen's family
Stations for kids -  Carma's family (improv games) /Mom and Dad (fishing pond, parachute games, treasure hunt?)/Kristen's family

Monday afternoon
Free time
Hike (Kevin's family)

Monday evening
Family pictures (if it works better for Leslie's family to come this night)
Family Home Evening - Mom and Dad (Bingo for activity?)

Tuesday morning
Pack up and leave.... so sad. 
 

Other non-scheduled, ongoing activities could include...
Wii, darts, foosball tournaments (Thurman might like organizing one of these)
Movies in theater room
Games
Amazing Race activities (Kevin's family -- or we could do this at a scheduled time if you'd like)

Good omen