Eyres

My brother Jonah and I dubbed ourselves the “#2’s” years and years ago. I was the second girl, and he was the second boy in a family of nine kids. It was our own special “club” in a sea of siblings. And we are so excited around here because this…

My sisters and I are starting off on a new venture that we’re pretty excited about. But let me back up first to explain: A couple years ago I was really inspired as I immersed myself in reading some memoirs. I was particularly drawn into books like Hillbilly Elegy and…

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…

A few years ago my nephew (my older sister Saren’s son) brought his new girlfriend up to meet us all at Bear Lake. We all fell in love with her and this summer, to kick off our family reunion, (and kind of for us to come full circle since this…

I have an incredible niece. Ok, well, I am lucky enough to have a LOT of incredible nieces, but one of them is doing some pretty big things recently like accepting an offer to swim and study at Columbia (!), and putting together a “senior project film premier” evening to…

Two of mine got serendipitous and took advantage of a pretty awesome flight deal and came down to visit for a day and a half. Boy we spent those precious hours in true Eyre fashion, trying to pack in as much as humanly possible, and I have to say I…

How’s that for a long title? Ha! But I wanted to take a minute to talk about my very favorite part of Christmas every single year: children-gift-exchange on Christmas Eve. Can you see how excited Claire was to give this gift to Lucy years ago? Ok sorry had to include…

This was supposed to post this morning…I am late but here we go!I feel like the luckiest girl in the world when it comes to parents. The older I get, the more I parent, the more grateful I get. And I was already pretty grateful to begin with. Anyway, those…

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…

My mom has been struggling with a bad knee for years. So finally a few weeks ago she gave in to all the pain and had a total knee replacement surgery. We were all mixed with excitement and nervousness for her. It’s a big-deal surgery but my Dad, true to…