There were many reasons we made the trip back east again this year. First, the obvious- Thanksgiving- a perfect holiday for hangin out with family- especially in our home town. Chip and I had a moment to get breakfast with a friend from high school (great to see ya, Brad). It was so fun to run through so many memories, trying to recall exactly where all those streets are he would mention and that we knew so well as teenagers, but now can hardly piece together in the mind's eye. It is a mind blowing experience- looking at pictures of his new baby and glowing wife....the same guy who caused plenty of irresponsible raucous with us in our little home town...I know we are older (and wiser, and more beautiful), but sometimes it just really stares ya in the face and causes this explosion of mindful awareness about me, us, time, and life.
Another draw was the celebration of Chip's mom's 60th birthday. As you can see from the balloons in one of these pictures, we didn't stop the feasting and celebrating on Thursday, but kept on partying Friday night too! We enjoyed an amazing dinner cooked by Hope, more cake (yes, also had cake on Thanksgiving celebrating Gammy's birthday too!), and decorations for the event. Everyone pitched in to make it a special event.
The DuRoss' also put a beautiful new kitchen addition on their house that has been in the planning as long as I have known them. Their open hearts and home are constantly entertaining family and friends for dinners, birthday celebrations, or just general communion. The addition is well deserved and was christened in good form with the crowd using it heavily, testing it's abilities and capacities, and loving every meal and moment in it.
And a final highlight for us- getting to hang out with our niece and nephews! How sweet are they?! It was so fun to watch their interest in each other grow over the four days.- Just another reminder of how time flies. I feel like it was just yesterday that Evan and Madeleine were these ages.We are thankful for the time we got to spend with not only the kids, but the amazing people who created them, our siblings, and our own parents. Thanks to all of the DuRoss' for making the trip. We love you lots and look forward to the next reunion!
"Gratitude is the heart's memory."
- French Proverb
3 comments:
Awesome recap of a great time together. You took so many good photos. Can we get copies on a disk or using Gspace? The one of Selah and Judah is so adorable!
I will send out CDs this Friday. Glad you liked them! It was a good time- miss everyone already!
Thanks so much for sending out the pictures, seriously ~ you guys always take the BEST pictures of our kiddos and that one just melts my heart. I think we're going to use that for our Christmas card this year!
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