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…
Games are one of my favorite things to bring people together. They help people get out of their comfort zones, get everyone interacting together at the same time as they create fun. So here’s a list of family reunion games. And of course, these games aren’t just for family reunions. Any time there’s a large…
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…
Ok, as I mentioned in the last post, I do have pictures coming out of my ears from when Max and Elle were with us last week. Because when there’s that much excitement in the air, you just have to try to bottle some of it up, I tell you! But let’s back up a…
So much happened over the summer many of the following things really deserve a post all of their own. But man alive, I want to catch up on this record keeping so I can write more “thought keeping” because there are so many things I want to write about! Plus house stuff which I apologize…
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 one member of our family…
Every year I have a tough time figuring out how in Heaven’s name to document Bear Lake. I take so dang many pictures and there’s so much that happens up there. So I guess the best way to do this thing is to just dive in at the beginning. Lucy, Max and I got home…
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 counted that first day as…