As I mentioned in the last post, we didn’t get as much time as I would have loved at Bear Lake this year. It’s interesting how things shift and change as kids get older. When I had younger kids we would fly from D.C. (where we lived for six years with our first three babies)…
How to Create an Awesome Family Reunion Start out by holding a wedding to bring it on (last post). Ha! It really was such a great kick-off though. For reunions we have all kinds of traditions that we love. But THIS year was a year to “Think Again” in many ways, including starting out with…
My parents celebrated their FIFTIETH wedding anniversary this last summer. We celebrated with the adults a couple months earlier (back HERE), but the actual anniversary was in July and I love that we sure celebrated that thing during our annual reunion at Bear Lake. There are 51 of us all together and 49 of us…
Ok. Here we go…. Each year the numbers at the lake shift a little…some come to stay well before, some come and stay after, but pretty much everyone is there for four sacred days each year: those days we call the reunion. It seems like every year we are missing one member of our family…
The first post from this reunion is HERE. On to the second half… Reunion Games We love playing games up at the lake. So we always tend to situate a few during the reunion. We started out with three-deep on the night we introduced the schedule of events since we counted that first day as…
Welp, the 2017 Eyrealm reunion was a big one for us. Because our little family was in charge of it. Yep, in charge of this huge group of 48 for a few days to make them do whatever we wanted. Now that’s a lot of pressure. Here they all are cheering their hearts out for…
A step-by-step guide for planning a family reunion (See part 1 to start at the beginning.) FOOD Food is a big deal at our reunions. Because the majority of us like to cook, and we also conveniently like to eat:) There are some whiz-bang cooks in this family of mine. The in-laws included. And I…
Our annual Family Reunion Each summer we look forward to getting together with this crew: …at the annual Eyrealm reunion at Bear Lake. And every year I feel like we need a wider angle camera lens. Let’s take that photo and look at half at a time so we can see more of that family…
This year it was Eli and Julie’s turn to host our annual reunion (we rotate from oldest to youngest). They did such a fabulous job and put a lot of work into it despite the fact that they just barely moved from DC to NYC and have been busy as can be. So grateful for…