All Things Must Come to an End

I'm sorry I've pretty much fell off the face of the blog earth. Life has been little rough this last week and a half, so I've been dealing with each situation the best way that I can. Today was a good example of the different things that have been happening in my life. Today was my family reunion and lets just say it didn't go they way I expected it to.

Each year the family picks a different place to hold our family reunion. This year we had it a VFW hall in the little town of Springport MI.

This year only my mom and I made the 3 1/2 hour drive and because most people don't know who I am in relation to the rest of my family, my mom and I decided to dress a like so everyone knew we came together.

I was nice to really start piecing together how everyone in the room was related to me and I finally feel like I got it down pretty well this year. However, that knowledge isn't going to be really needed because the decision was made the today that this was going to be the last family reunion we have.

I have to say this did make me kind of sad. Being that we live two states away from most of my extended family, the reunion was a nice with to visit with family we don't often get to see. Plus, this year marked the 65th family reunion so it sad that this long lived tradition had to come to an end.

On top of going to my family reunion today, we also attended the wake of my great aunt Dorris (my mom's aunt). The wake was held in a same town as the reunion so we all just move from one venue to the other.

At the wake there were many photo albums around, but one album really stood out- the album with old photos from a bunch of our different family reunions over the years. I saw pictures of my mom when she was just a baby to pictures of me and my cousins as little kids. There have been a lot memories made over the years at these reunions so it sad to see it end, but at least we still have pictures to remember them by.

I do ask -if you are a religious person- to send prayers to my family as we go through this hard time and transition in our family.