Eyrealm Reunion

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

Once again our big reunion has come and gone. Oh how I love these great people!  Everyone was here except my one brother and his family who couldn’t make it because they are living in Europe right now.  We missed them so much! This year my sister Charity and her…

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…

Noah and Kristi were the masters of ceremonies at the reunion this year (we move down by age each year). Those two are one heck of a dynamic duo, I tell you. Let’s take a closer look at that schedule:  It’s a unique work of art every summer, compliments of…

My Mom grew up in Montpelier, Idaho.  It is a tiny town close to Bear Lake (which stretches across the Utah/Idaho border).  Forty-three years ago, as a surprise wedding gift for his bride, my Dad used all of my Mom’s savings to buy a lot at Bear Lake.  Now, I…