Ages ago, like in 2008, we had our first ever (and maybe last) full family reunion. All ten siblings, both of my parents, all of our spouses and children and a variety of step-family met up in Maine for a few days.
It was glorious.
We've talked about and attempted to pull together another reunion ever since. So far, no luck. We managed to see each other in smaller, slap-dash, groups here and there. But we long for a full reunion...
Almost nine months ago we decided to at least try for a siblings reunion. With enough notice we all should be able to get together and my oldest brother, Chris, has a vacation home in St. George where we can stay for free! So we picked a weekend (October 19-22nd) and started planning. As life unfolded most of us were able to book travel, arrange child care or get time off work to make our way out to Utah.
We met in the desert for family fun.
The youngest three boys were not able to make it out. Oliver, naturally, is unable to travel on his own. Ebin and Charlie both had other commitments they couldn't get out of. We missed all three of them a lot.
The other brothers helped Christopher fix things up around the house.
We made meals together and cleaned up together.
And we spent a lot of time catching up. It was really nice and felt good to get so much sibling time together.
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