"reunion"

Yesterday Grace gave a homecoming talk at church to wrap up her mission experience. I sat there in the audience and beamed up at that girl. Marveling at how she has matured and how her light shines. Don’t get me wrong, she was pretty awesome before, but yow, a mission…

There are a lot of things you don’t know you’ll get with motherhood. I mean, you have a basic idea of the sleepless nights, the beauty of cooing babies, the joy of the first steps taken and the first understandable “mama” from the lips of your own child. But no…

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…

Ok, I’ve been meaning to write this post ever since I posted about how to create an awesome family reunion back HERE. (And I’ve also had a bunch of requests for the game portion.) Because GAMES are one of the things we love most about family reunions, right? What a…

Ok, I’m late as can be today, but I wanted to throw this out because I know so many people have asked about how we do our family reunions over the years. If you haven’t heard of “8-Minute Classes” on Instagram you should check it out because they have all…

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…

Grace arrived home from her grand adventure in China on Thursday night riding on the wings of a few miracles: some crazy mishaps getting to the airport, an impossible-no-way-she-could-make-it connection in LAX from an international terminal to the seemingly-miles-away Southwest terminal going through customs, etc. She miraculously made it and…

Ok, as I mentioned in the last post, I do have pictures coming out of my ears from when Max and Elle were with us last week. Because when there’s that much excitement in the air, you just have to try to bottle some of it up, I tell you!…

So much happened over the summer many of the following things really deserve a post all of their own.  But man alive, I want to catch up on this record keeping so I can write more “thought keeping” because there are so many things I want to write about!  Plus…

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…