Bryan Family Reunion 2026

 The Bryans gathered in the Uintah Basin for our reunion this year.

It was at a beautiful lodge at Six Lakes Resort just short ways away from Skin Walker Ranch haha :)

As always, Ben attracted the younger kids with his iPad...

He was pretty patient for the most part.

We eventually moved downstairs because I was worried he would stop being patient and get aggressive...however, the girls followed us down :)

Merill had chosen Six Lakes because of the fly fishing possibilities.

He turned all of the grandkids into flyfishermen/women!

Our kids seriously loved it and went out multiple times!

Strangely enough, I think Matt was the one that took to it the most and yet I seem to have the least amount of pictures of him fishing.

Jenny did a bottled water tasting...

There was also a pickleball tournament of which I got no pictures but in which Andy and I held our own pretty well against Tom and Jase for the first round ;)

Grandpa helping some of the grandkids reel up!

Josh was also popular with the little kids!

As was Andy...

We somehow were able to all gather for a few pics!

Off to the lake again...

Abby found a spot by herself...

And it looks like Matt hung out with Jenny and Mike

Jenny sent these great pics to me...

And these are from Andy from a different evening...

But back to the other night...I was getting pics of Abby and Matt from afar when I saw a rowboat in the middle of the lake and lo and behold it turned out to be Josh!

Night fishing...

Merill loved that the kids were enjoying the main activity so much!

This is him headed out with his phone blasting "You and Me Goin' Fishin' in the Dark"

We got a few games in of course!

We taught Trio, Jungo and Poetry for Neanderthals :)

It was a fun few days!

Ben did have a moment of aggression with the younger kids and it threw me for a few hours.  It always makes me so sad when he lashes out at these little innocents.  I tried to seclude ourselves in the basement from then on.  I just don't know what to do about the situation.

If I'm always secluding the two of us to avoid those moments then I start to wonder why I'm even there since it would be easier to just stay home with him.