We enjoyed a relaxing afternoon with alot of my extended family. Grandma counted up 103 people in attendance. Considering she has 8 children, 47 grandchildren and 97 great-grandchildren, I think she had a decent showing. She was really really tired when it was over though and said that this is her last year hosting it. If this reunion is to continue, someone else will have to step and be in charge. This makes me sad because I'm not sure who is strong enough to keep it going. Grandma and Grandpa are the glue. All right family, let's put our heads together and figure this one out! We went one year without this reunion and I went through Lowder cousin withdrawals. Email me your ideas. We'll make this work. I'd love to hear what everyone else's family's do for reunions and how you keep them going each year.
Now for some pictures:
This picture has Seressa(Ben's ex) and her baby, Grandma, Cali (Brian's wife), Joel and Deb and little Tanner, Jami is way back there, ME! and my Dad. The boys standing in the background is Cindy's son Alex. Aunt Janice is way back there talking to Lyle who is holding his beautiful little Lauren (she has the brightest blue eyes and the prettiest red hair. She really was very cute!)
This picture has Kaylee(Sariah's daughter) and Sariah sitting next to Lyle's wife, Linda, Aunt Janice is standing next to David, Jenny is sitting at the far table, Uncle Bob and Kimbol and Casey are all at that table also, my Ken is way in the back wearing the ball cap and Heidi is in the stripes up front. Not sure who the other little girl is and look at all the people in the sun room.
These are our gourmet chef's, Uncle Dennis and Monte, and Heidi's husband Todd has his back to the camera.
This is Kurt and his fiance Leandra and their son Jaydin, Aunt Cindy and her husband Loren.
And this is the returning deadly bounce house. My Alexys is in the pink and my Shaelynne is in the blue. I think that more little kids fell out of this thing hurt and in tears and my kids said that the conversations that went on inside were a little rough also. I'm not sure I vote for this toy to return.
And that's it! I'm so bummed. I did not have my camera so these are shots from my mom's camera and I have no idea who was even taking them. There were so many more people there. Janice, I know you had a camera. I'm wanting to see what you got. Please post them or send me some.
Now for some family business:
For the first and only time this year, Aunt Janice is filling her pool up and rumor has it that she is planning to party hard on her water slide the next two weekends. The more the merrier! Talk to her or Jami for more details.
AND in January, Brian's wife Cali is having Great-Grand baby #100!!!!! So we are planning to do something super fun to honor that milestone! I will be putting that together so if you have any ideas on that one, let me know also!
(How did this post turn into a family email? Oops!)
3 comments:
Thanks for the post on the family reunion. I am sad that I missed it. Looks like everyone had a great time.
I am so glad that it went well. I wish that I could have come but it was just a bad weekend for us in general. How did the books turn out? I would really love to get my hands on one of those and so would Mim.
A family reunion is a lot to manage. On my mom's side, they have it in one central local each year, on the same weekend (like the 2nd weekend in Aug.) at park in Burley, where they reserve a pavillion. I know that all of her and her siblings that attend chip in money to put toward the meat, usually KFC and then everyone else usually brings sides and desserts.
They used to send invites but have just relied on word of mouth, not sure how that is going since I haven't been in a while.
On CJ's side of the family they rotate responsibilities by sibling each year. Their are seven of them so the each only have to do it once every seven years. That person is responsible for the whole kit and kaboodle. But the location changes each year as the person who is in charge decides when and where.
I am not sure what the best way is. It is a lot to undertake I do know that! Seeing all of those pictures makes me miss you all!
I think that we should have the Lowder family reunion at our place in Grace next year. We have plenty of room and things for everyone to do. We have volleyball, baseball, tramps, sandbox, a swingset and not to mention a waterslide! We could have the main day on Saturday but if anyone wanted to come up a day early we could have the slide running friday too. Thats just my thought because I would hate to see us not have it anymore.
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