Some traditions we have:
Group family picture .... I believe there were over 100 of us this year. A professional photographer takes the real picture, but here we are getting ready in our matching shirts color coded according to generation -- Grandma and Don in red, Grandma's children in green, grandchildren in brown, and great-grandchildren in blue. (Thanks to my cousin Tami for this great picture off her blog.)
Remembering an ancestorThe past few times we have gotten together the family in-charge has chosen an ancestor to remember. This year was Norm & Verna Gardner. My Great-Grandparents .... my father's parents. My aunt Diane and Uncle Don's family made us each a little card with this great picture. My Grandfather is the tall one on the back row in the bottom picture.
Rook
My family LOVES the game Rook. We don't play the traditional rules. In fact, I know of no where that the rules are even written down. They just keep getting passed down generation to generation. It is highly addicting and we can sit around for way too many hours talking about games played and hands dealt days, weeks, months and even years ago.
My Grandma told the story of how when she first met my Grandpa they introduced her to this stupid game called Rook. There was no way she was ever going to be a part of it and was disgusted that they would stay up all hours of the night playing such a dumb game. Even worse his family could talk about games and hands dealt days, weeks, months and even years ago. We all got a good laugh.
2 comments:
You gotta love Joe's reaction to Diane shaking her hair--pointed out by Teri, btw. (Click on the picture to make it bigger.) It was fun gelling with you at AG. Life is so much simpler when someone else cooks all your meals and entertains your kids!
I was just thinking, I wish we were there.
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