[.Richens Ranch.]

Only having to work one day last week was SO nice!  Right after Vegas on Wednesday, Lance and I packed up to head to Arcadia, UT on Friday.  Some of my family owns a ranch in the city of Arcadia called The Richens Ranch this is where we go for our Richens Reunion.  I took about 300 pictures, but those will be emailed to me later.  So for now, it's just a boring ole post.
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We left around 2:00 Friday afternoon thinking we'd beat traffic.  Well, we beat it alright, but others were causing it going extremely slow (and by slow I mean going the speed limit while in the "fast" lane and having all other lanes going the [exact] same speed so you can't pass their butts).  Lance and I are both very bad at trying to be patient with other drivers, if you couldn't tell.  Put us together in one car around annoying drivers and you've got yourself a show!  But I must admit, when I have such road rage I laugh about it, because I think it's much better to laugh than be upset and let it ruin your day.  Lance it slightly different than me in that area, he gets mad, then I think it's funny so I laugh even more.  At one point Lance looked at me and told me that he needed a  stress ball, I told him to grab my forearm and start squeezing!  So he did!
We actually made it to the Ranch quite quickly, just in time to make the rounds to go say hi to everyone.  I have to say, sadly, that this was probably the first year I actually remembered who people were and how I was related.  All these years I always thought my 2nd cousins were uncles, and never knew (or really cared) how all 200 of us were considered relatives, I just knew we all always got together once a year.  So this year I tried to make it a goal to remember the relationships.  Out of the 200, I remembered about 15 of them this time.  I guess it'll just take more practice and more  years.
That night, Tracy, Jenna, Jake, Braydon, Lance and I played phase 10 before going to bed.  

Saturday morning Lance, Jake and Braydon played catch out in the fields.  Jenna and I went out to play a little later.
Every year at the reunion they host an auction to make money to help pay for the next years reunion.  So we sat at the auction for a while.  During the auction we found two of the cutest puppies, and we fell in love!  Afterward, there is a huge lunch where everyone brings one thing then we all eat like heathens.
Once lunch was over, we rested for a bit.  Then all families got together to play a big softball game.
It was hot and fun, and we all drank a couple gallons of ice water I'm sure.
Later, we went with Jake and Jenna on a hike to watch the sunset before we had to leave the next day.  We were going to try and watch the sunrise as well, but ya know, that's just way to early to get up while on vacation.  So the sunset it was.  We hiked up to the top of the hill and walked over to a pond (probably like a mile-ish away from camp).  When we got to the pond there were misquitos ev-ery-where!  So we started walking back and watched the sunset along the way.  On our way back we realized that we could hear the music playing from our camp.  Yeah, so loud that we could hear it that far away!  But that just means that dancing and karaoke had started.  As we were walking Lance noticed a ginormous snake!  To me.. he was ginormous!  That only made us get back even faster.  

We went into the pavilion and danced along to all the songs.  A little later, I noticed that my step mom Tracy and boy cousin Tracy were doing some karaoke.  When Dixie Chicks came on I braved up enough to go sing into the mic.  Actually I didn't really have to brave up, I was already hyper enough to just take the mic and start singin'.  Jenna joined in with me, then once the chorus came along Jake and Lance joined as well.  It was fun making up our own appropriate lyrics when we didn't know the words.
After a late night, we went back to the trailer ready for bed!  We woke up, packed up our stuff, said bye to all our relatives and headed home.