Daniels Family Meeting Minutes 08-16-08

Here are the minutes from the Daniels Family Meeting 2008

Daniels’ Family Reunion
August 15 – 17, 2008


Jeff Daniels called the family meeting to order. He welcomed everyone that could make it to the reunion this year.

Paula read off the family members that she needed contact information on.

The Rock Springs facilities were discussed. Everyone thought that they were great and that they fit our family needs to a tee. A motion was made by Chuck Look and seconded by Joel Daniels (and many others) to hold the 2010 family reunion in the same location. Motion carried with a unanimous vote.

With that being the case, Jeff and Paula Daniels offered to host the reunion again in 2010. They will meet with the administrator and give him three possible dates for the reunion in 2010. They are as follows: July 24th; July 31st; August 6th. The date will be finalized in September of 2009.

Family dues were discussed. It was the consensus for each family to pay $40 dues and each single pay $20 dues. This money would be used towards any deposits required from Rock Springs.

Anyone that has reunion pictures, please forward them to Paula so that she can add them to the family DVD.

A motion was made by Rick Bice and seconded by Janie Daniels to adjourn the meeting.


Virginia Bice
Recorder

Another Reunion Done

Well, the 2008 Reunion is in the can! It went VERY well and everyone had a great time. I think we finally found the perfect site. Rock Springs was just FABULOUS!!! What fun, good food and of course great fellowship with family. http://www.rocksprings.net/

The first day Jeff, John, Jacob, Jared and I flew into KC and drove out. We made a swing through Manhattan to pick up some cases of drinks from Steven's house. As we drove by the campus we realized that we hadn't been back to Manhattan since the day we packed our house and drove out January 1st, 1988! We were surprised at how little it had changed. They have done a lot of construction around old stadium which looked really nice. It looks like they are FINALLY putting a parking garage in the student union parking lot too. We even drove by the little house where our first apartment was (25 years ago). It looked even smaller than we remembered. We then arrived at Rock Springs. How gorgeous! Of course coming from Arizona, everything seemed sooooo green. Pulling into the parking lot we see that Bob and Georgia had just beat us there. We checked into Leadership Lodge
and people began arriving. Two things we soon discovered; t-mobile doesn't have very good service there and don't believe the google maps directions (right Ruth?).

Day two started with breakfast at the cafeteria.

We were welcomed and given instructions for "special" people who get the "privilege" of cleaning the table. After that we were scheduled for the Leadership Course. We had fun learning how to communicate, cooperate and trust! Although we almost injured our instructor and I think we did everything the hard way. I am NOT going to give away some of the things we learned about how to do the course more easily. Yes, I am NOT communicating!!! You just had to be there! Next time it will have to be a contest between even and odds!?!?!

Then it was off to lunch. After lunch a group headed to the swimming pool for a brisk dip, some of the babies went down for a nap, and the rest just spent time visiting. We got discs for the 18 hole Frisbee golf course but we never seemed to get a game organized. After dinner we organized for family photos.

Then a few of us went canoeing. they basically have something similar to a race track for canoes. There is an island with a creek around it so it made for some fun racing.

Then we headed back to the lodge for the bi-annual family meeting (see minutes post). Jeff went into town and got some cupcakes and a variety of cheesecakes in celebration of a great reunion. After the meeting there was much visiting, photo sharing, card playing, DVD movies, DS playing etc. Needless to say it was your typical "stay up talking until you can't keep your eyes open" family reunion night!

Day three again started with a meal! Jacob said it felt like every time we turned around we were eating. And we never seemed to be hungry!!! So why did we need the cheesecake?!? Oh, that's right, food consumed on vacation contain 0 calories! Love that rule of eating!!! After breakfast we gathered back at the lodge for a wonderful worship service. Thank you Chunk, Janet, Virginia and Rick. It was truly the icing on the cake.

Then we all casually packed before heading up to lunch. After lunch everyone headed out with many tears, hugs and good-byes!

Kyle Look created some wonderful T-shirts for our Reunion. Modeled here by Chuck and Jan. I believe that you can still order them as well as mouse pads, coffee mugs, trucker hats, beach bags, etc etc etc. Contact Janet cjlook@msn.com or Kyle look_kyle@hotmail.com for more information.