reunion

I know I’ve already told the story about how I was shy as shy could be in the beginning of high school. Oh how I clung onto that older sister of mine as she tried to detach her arm from my grip after she had shown me where the dance…

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’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…

I’m trying to figure out how to ever catch up in this space! A space to record what is happening in our family. It seems strange to go on recording every-day events when the world is in such turmoil. I have also wondered if it is taking too much time…

Gotta eek this in before it morphs into MARCH. Time flies when you’re having fun. And also when you’re stressed out. Ha! Let’s go back to December for a minute though. Because it was a good one. We reluctantly pulled down all our Thanksgiving stuff: And turned ourselves into Christmas…

**First of all, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO MAX AND ABBY! I cannot believe one year ago we were waking up on the grand morning of that wedding celebration. So happy those two found each other! And second of all, sorry if you follow my Instagram story and saw some of this…

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…