August 17, 2010-Family Reunion

This is the old tree that we used to swing on in front of my Aunt Shirley's camp, that sits on the old homestead where my grandparents house used to be. This is just up the road from where the reunion was. My cousin, Karen and her husband hold the reunions at their place every year now. They built a pavilion a little ways from their new home there. Real nice spot.

Some of my extended family. My niece, Crystal was there with her two daughters, Brooke and Kendra. Danielle was there with her boyfriend, Billy. They are my sister, Debby's kids. My sister, Jane and her husband, Savey were there. My sister, Pam was there with her boyfriend, John and then her kids came later. Gregory, Zachory and Stephanie. Steph has a little boy named Nathan, who was there also. My deceased sister, Chris's son, Gavin showed up just in time for this photo. I left right after these were taken.

This is me with my three sisters. From left are Debby, Pam and Jane and me.

This is me sitting with the only Aunts left in that family. from left are my Aunt Sarah, Aunt Shirley, me, Aunt Betty and Aunt Beverly, who all are my father's sisters. The last one on the right is my Aunt Mary. She was married to my father's brother.

Some of my family standing around in the hot sun drinking a beer or whatever. I can't stand being in the sun so I stayed under the roof with the other relatives.

I made it to my family reunion on Saturday. The only way I could do it was not to eat much the day before and not eat anything at all at the reunion. It worked and I stayed for three and a half hours. But I sure was hungry when I got home. And for the past two days I'm suffering. I guess I'd feel better if I didn't eat any solid food at all but I cannot go back to liquid diets. I'll just have to keep popping more laxatives.
I had a good time Saturday, talking to the relatives and sharing a few laughs.. Only three of my sisters were there. All my brothers were off somewhere else that weekend. I was kind of hoping to see more of us but maybe at Christmas this year we can get together and hopefully I will be able to go also. My sister, Jeanne, wanted to be there but she got stuck babysitting her two young granddaughters that day. I felt bad for her. My daughter wasn't there either. Don't know why she didn't come. Haven't heard from her in a while. I know she's getting ready to start her new teaching job at the college and trying to buy that home. Not sure if she got it or not. And she's been trying to spend as much time with her kids as she can before school starts. They go camping and kayaking a lot now.
Here's a few pictures from Saturday. It was a beautiful day. I made slide shows with all my photos and videos. My cousin, Diana, took a lot for me because it's too hard for me to get around with crutches and try to take the pics. I can't thank her enough for doing that for me.