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)…
Ever since Grace returned from her mission we have had little fragments of the family together: Elle stayed a couple days extra after spring break back in March so that she could be here with us for the grand mission return: (back HERE) Max and Abby arrived in the wee hours of the next morning…
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 homecoming talk is a milestone….
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 one prepares you for letting…
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…
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 great way to get everyone…
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 kinds of great things on…
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…
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 then proceeded to fly through…