Sunday, August 3, 2008

The Family Reunion Finale!!!

Grandpa and Grandma With Eight Blessings
Left to right
Charlotte, Katie, Olivia, Laura, Anna, Jacob, Veronica and Philip

Dad and Mom with Our Four Blessings, Barbara, Anne, Tom and Mary
Our Many Blessings!

Each year as we end our summertime reunions, we do the family portraits. We get all kinds of the usual complaints; it is taking to long, are we done yet, the sun is too bright, how many more photos, are we done yet, can we hurry this up and get it over, are we done yet. This year Aunt Barbara was clever. After her photo shoots she said, o.k. give me your worst smile or look. I hope that is their Christmas card photo so next year they really want to smile and not complain. It really is fun to learn if we get an original complaint that we haven't heard before. It didn't happen this year. They really are good sports!

2 comments:

Jewels said...

Wow, it looks like fun. It sounds like you see each other a lot for how spread apart you are, but I suppose not all at once.

Dine With Donna said...

Jewels;
Mary tries to get home each summer as her oldest daughter does a summer program at a university. When she finishes we have our summer reunion. Tom and Susan hosted everyone this year. The kids had so much fun with water activities. Our big times are summer and Thanksgiving. During Thanksgiving we invite friends to celebrate with us so we have a big crowd then also.