reunion

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… 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 counted…

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…

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.  The in-laws included.  And I love getting new recipes from them each year. I know…

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 see more of that…

I went to Boston University for my freshman year of college and I wouldn’t change it for the world.  I know I wrote somewhere on this blog all the drama of my heart wanting and yearning to go to BYU but my mind (with my Dad orchestrating it a little…