Sunday, August 15, 2010

Family Reunion 2010 Photos



Samantha and Selah
Angels among us...

Tea Party 2010

Back row left to right:

Eliza (Heather) Sophie (Aaron) Hannah (Erika) Emma (Heather) Grandma

Middle row:

Cosette (Kirsten) Sara (Erika) Savannah (Heather) Emily (Erika)

Front Row:
Samantha (Erika) Selah (Heather)



Tuesday, August 10, 2010

2010 Family Reunion in Utah

We spent a couple of weeks with most of our children and grandchildren coming and going.

What a wonderful time we had with them! It was close quarters, since they all live outside Utah and we only had the condo to share.

For those of you out of the loop, we had a house fire that occurred June 1st where our garage burned and the rest of the house had significant smoke damage. Therefore, it was unavailable for guests or any activities.

We were scattered around Provo, Orem, Alpine and Salt Lake. Somehow we were able to find places around the area to have great activities together. They hiked Y Mountain (Erika did it twice), played at the Provo water park, visited the BYU Creamery, had a couple of BBQs, Girls' Tea Party, boys' outing, Thanksgiving Point, Missionary Training Center for food and blessing Lucy Claire Smith (Aaron & Erin's 4th of July baby) in the executive conference room of the MTC and other fun bonding experiences.

We're already planning the next one! The cousins really needed to have this in order to become reacquainted with families living far away from them. As an update on the geographic locations of each of them:

Aaron and Erin moved to Bellevue, Washington where Aaron is now working for Amazon

Allan and Jennifer moved to northeastern Pennsylvania also working for Amazon

Kirsten and Ryan moved to Temecula, California

Heather and Matt are still in Atlanta, but could possibly move next year.

Erika and Marshall are still in University Place, Washington, but will probably move next year after Marshall completes his residency program and the Army takes them away.

Stephen and Stephanie moved to Yelm, Washington where he joined a dental practice.

It was amazing to have so many in Utah considering the diverse places they live. I guess that shows they will move mountains to be with their family!

Kirsten was our family photographer at the reunion and took some beautiful ones. We haven't seen most of them, but hope to share them soon.