I think this is how we all felt by the end of the week (our grandson, Luke) . We all fit a lot of fun, sharing and laughing into a week.
We left here on July 24
th in the RV with 8 family members. It was a long trip and towards the end the traffic was nasty. We're not used to summer traveling any more. It took us 11 hours to get to the resort. As you can see from the pictures above it was a really hard trip for the kids!!
Upper left hand corner we have Amber and Lauren. Amber is our
granddaughter, Carissa's friend and Lauren is Darryl 's daughter. Then I have two pictures of Erica, our daughter in law, who is just so
photogenic. Below is our eldest daughter Suzanne and our youngest daughter Karen. Next a picture of Karen and Brandon. The following are pictures of Suzanne and Karen deep in conversation.
My family being totally silly which they are really good at. Yes, that is me drying Dave's pants
he sat down in a chair on the balcony that was still a little wet from the rain the night before.In the upper left hand corner David is holding Izzy's
hermit crab who made the trip with them.
The above is pictures of our beach time. The kids did fireworks on the beach at night.
We had cookouts, ate out once and had 9 racks of ribs one night. Plenty of food. Breakfast and dinner were at Nana and Papa's place. We celebrated Luke's and
Hollyn's July birthdays. I wish I had recorded all the conversations around the dinner table.
Also worth mentioning is that Myrtle Beach is
Krispee Kreme headquarters. When you go past the store they let you know with a sign in the window when they are just coming out of the oven. Let me tell you right now --- there is nothing like a glazed donut right out of the oven.
From left to right above: Karen with son Mike, Michelle with boyfriend, Darryl, Karen and Husband Mac.
Below: Karen outside restaurant we ate at, our son, David, his wife, Erica, and their daughter, Isabella, then Brandon, our youngest son.
A night of shopping and
Bangui jumping for the
grand kids and dinner out. The pretty plaque in the middle was given to me by Mac and Karen.
To help you keep everyone straight I'm going to list the children and families for you.
Our eldest daughter, Suzanne, and her daughter,
Hollyn.
Her husband and 2 sons are missing from this picture. Will explain later.
Next in line is Michelle and her daughter, Carissa, and her son Steve, below.
Steve will be next year's high school graduate.
This is Michelle's boyfriend, Darryl, and his
daughter, Lauren. He has a son, Justin, who was unable to attend due to a baseball tournament.
Next we have our son, David, his wife, Erica, and their two children, Isabella and Garrett.
Here we have our daughter, Karen, and her husband, Mac, and their two boys, Mike and Luke.
This is my 5 foot 6 inch baby, Brandon.
Unfortunately he had the flu the whole time he was with us and felt terrible.
Here we have the nine grandchildren from eldest to youngest.
Keenan, Steve, Troy, Carissa, Isabella,
Hollyn, Mike, Garrett, and Luke.
These are our 5 children
Suzanne, Michelle, David
Karen and Brandon
Here are the 5 of them.
Lee and I have seen a lot of beautiful things but I must say seeing all 5 children together having fun, sharing memories, laughing, loving and supporting one another tops the lists.
Not present at the reunion were Suzanne's husband David and her sons, Keenan above and Troy at the top of the blog.
Suzanne's family: husband, David, daughter Hollyn, and sons, Keenan and Troy
Keenan was at a required soccer camp for school. He will be attending Long Island University in New York and playing Division 1 soccer this fall.
Troy, who is at the beginning of the blog will be in 11th grade this year and he was asked to play in Houston, TX with U-17 Youth Division of Philadelphia Union MLS team. Quite an honor. These boys live and breath soccer.
We missed having them with us.
All the grandchildren had a great time together and we all decided at the end of the week that we should do it again in 2-3 years.
There is nothing more important than family except out relationship with our Heavenly father.
We're glad our children understand the importance of staying in touch and supporting one another.
Featured above are Jim and Tracy Tull who graciously offered to take care of Nicky while we went to the family reunion. We can't thank them enough --we are very picky about who watches child # 6 because he is a tad spoiled.
I hope this blog has given all of you an opportunity to meet our family. They are after all, the most important part of who we are.
We are at the home of Tom and Lauree Fidler good friends of ours from church. The DJ is set upon the wagon in the background.
It is a beautiful Saturday afternoon and they are having a pig roast. You could not believe all the food.
This is a picture of their beautiful barn.
This is Tom and Lauree's daughter, Christin, and Nate with their new little one.
This is Tom and Lauree's son, Jared, and his fiancee, Christina.
Their home is just lovely and has a porch which should be featured on Better Homes and Gardens.
Now to the reason for this pig roast. It turns out that this year was a big year for Tom, Lauree and their daughter, Kassi, when it comes to birthdays so they decided to make a joint celebration this year.
Tom turning 60!!!
Kassi turning 21!!!
Lauree turning 50!!!
