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 bit in the background) knowing…
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 don’t know for sure, but…
With Max as a freshman and Elle hot on his heels, we are getting a lot more exposure to all the high school hoopla that goes on around here. I kinda like it. I took the girls to a basketball game a while back so we could watch one of my Young Women cheer…and also…
After the big reunion at Bear Lake each year we linger as long as we can. Friends come and go. We have late-night talks in the hot tub under the stars. We cook more. We clean more. The kids get further and further out of their daily routine until finally, at the end of our…
Although we all linger at Bear Lake as long as we can each year, the actual reunion itself is only three-and-a-half days. Each year one couple is in charge of putting it on.We move down the family by age. This year it was this dynamic duo who pulled it all off:(That’s also the brother who…
My family is grumpy. The kind of grumpiness that comes from a mixture of way too many late nights in a row, being homesick for your own bed and your own space, and that melancholy feeling that no matter how long you have had with people you love, you will still miss seeing them around…
We’ve been coming up here to Bear Lake for the summers for as long as I can remember. The number of people in our family who stick it out for the whole month has waxed and waned through the years. When we were young, it was mandatory we stay all three months. I loved it…until…
Yes, we are still here at the lake. We have to eek out every second we can up here. And we love it. I have some reunion stragglers I never posted. They just symbolize all the stuff we did because man alive, we packed those few days water tight.(My sister is quite artistic.)My sister-in-law and…
Gradually we picked up more and more people up at the lake until all 34 of us were there and the actual reunion began. That means two things: 1) 34 people create mayhem. It was pretty crazy…especially the meals, and 2) it was SO fun to be all together…to have time to really talk and…