Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Later Family Reunion
We had this really great family reunion last week in honor of my mother-in-law's 80th birthday this coming December. All of Kent's family were with us here in Idaho - his brother, and all his sisters and their families. It was fantastic for all of us to be together. In fact, it's the first time all of us have been together at once in 21 years.
We all went to the temple together, had a great day in Jackson Hole (in spite of the rain) and played hard on Tuesday at the Olympic Game Day. It was so much fun to see everyone playing together. Thanks to Debbie and Mike for planning the Jackson trip and the Brosie family for planning a great day of games and food. Tray and Tammy made a fantastic ham and potato dinner for Sunday then treated us to home-made Japanese food on Tuesday night. And how many hours (months?) did Jill and Mitch spend on making a 25 minute video including pictures of everyone in our family?? It was absolutely fantastic.
So, here are some fun pictures from the reunion set to music. It won't be as good as Mitch's (can't wait to see that!!) but it's fun anyway.
Good memories of good times.
Enjoy!
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Thoughts on life
Having not blogged for almost a month (life happens), I'll roll up a couple of thoughts into one. The first is:
And Here We Have Idaho
Summer comes slowly and tentatively to Idaho. Last year it snowed on June 4th. This year has been much better, but on Friday we had the craziest storm I've ever seen. Wind, pea-sized hail, and rain in TORRENTS. There was a river running down Napa Drive. The day after, we still had piles of ice in the shade. I was driving home from work and the hail on the car was like GUNSHOTS.
Fortunately, the windshield survived. Unfortunately, my beautiful geranium and garden did not. My poor little radishes, okra, and peas look like they've been through a shredder. And this lovely organic specimen is (was?) my geranium.
The second thought relates to Michael Jackson.
Honestly, I never bought his music. I wasn't into it. And, quite truthfully, he was the most bizarre entertainer on the planet. But I was reading a blog on npr.org about him that attached the video of him singing "Billie Jean" at the Motown 25 celebration. This was the premier of the ever famous Moonwalk. There was NOBODY from my generation that didn't at least attempt to do the Moonwalk.
One of my kids asked me today, "so what's the big deal about Michael Jackson?". I guess I'm kind of glad they didn't get it, because their only memories of him are related to his self destructive behavior. But I also tried to explain how all kinds of people come into our lives, even when we don't really like them or understand them or want them there, and when that person leaves we can't help but miss them a little bit, even if they were kind of weird.
I'll let you pull up the Moonwalking videos yourself on Youtube - but here's a fun little Michael Jackson video - how I like to remember him - when we were all a little more innocent.
And Here We Have Idaho
Summer comes slowly and tentatively to Idaho. Last year it snowed on June 4th. This year has been much better, but on Friday we had the craziest storm I've ever seen. Wind, pea-sized hail, and rain in TORRENTS. There was a river running down Napa Drive. The day after, we still had piles of ice in the shade. I was driving home from work and the hail on the car was like GUNSHOTS.
Fortunately, the windshield survived. Unfortunately, my beautiful geranium and garden did not. My poor little radishes, okra, and peas look like they've been through a shredder. And this lovely organic specimen is (was?) my geranium.
The second thought relates to Michael Jackson.
Honestly, I never bought his music. I wasn't into it. And, quite truthfully, he was the most bizarre entertainer on the planet. But I was reading a blog on npr.org about him that attached the video of him singing "Billie Jean" at the Motown 25 celebration. This was the premier of the ever famous Moonwalk. There was NOBODY from my generation that didn't at least attempt to do the Moonwalk.
One of my kids asked me today, "so what's the big deal about Michael Jackson?". I guess I'm kind of glad they didn't get it, because their only memories of him are related to his self destructive behavior. But I also tried to explain how all kinds of people come into our lives, even when we don't really like them or understand them or want them there, and when that person leaves we can't help but miss them a little bit, even if they were kind of weird.
I'll let you pull up the Moonwalking videos yourself on Youtube - but here's a fun little Michael Jackson video - how I like to remember him - when we were all a little more innocent.
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