Days in the Making: 16th Annual Family Reunion

Every year since we moved to Texas my parents have hosted a family reunion at their house for my Mom's side of the family, who are spread all over the southern half of the U.S. Growing up, this was always one of the highlights of the year. But it has become more difficult to put together as we cousins have begun to grow up and get jobs, school responsibilities, families of our own etc. And hosting has gotten harder as the number of people in the family continues to increase! Last year my parents decided we were probably done with reunions because it was just too complicated with this many people. Well everyone was so sad that my parents, being the host and hostess of the year, decided to accommodate everyone and invite the family to the lake house for a week! (origially 41 people total!) As reality set in, Mom started getting alittle nervous thinking about were everyone was going to sleep and how to organize all the meals and stuff, so I helped her out when I was there in June. I hope she was able to look forward to it more after that. So thanks to them and to the Lord for making it possible, we had another great reunion with our family. Everyone really stepped up and helped out selflessly and we all just had a great time together! The reunion just happened to fall right after that area of Texas was completely flooded with rain, so the lake was not considered "safe" for swimming etc. But our wonderful neighbors blessed us beyond words by letting us use their pool (and offering everything from volleyball equipment to snacks to tours of their beautiful house!) Given the circumstances, this could have been a rough week. But because God chose to bless us in numerous ways, our family truly had a great time.

Here is Taylor in the neighbors' pool with my cousin Scott and her cousin Caitlyn.

This is Micah, Caitlyn's brother. I wish I remembered what he was laughing at!