Family Reunion

My family got together last week for a mini family reunion. It was to celebrate my parents 50th wedding anniversary which actually was in June but we couldn't get everyone together until August.
It was fun hanging out with my brothers and sister. There are 5 siblings in my family 3 that live in Utah and one brother in Texas and me in Ca. I drove from Ca. on Saturday and picked up my brother and his wife on my way through Vegas since that is the closest airport to Kanab and they were flying in from Texas. My other brother drove down from Riverton on Wednesday and the other two already live in Kanab.
Our plans were kind of loose, we just kind of winged it all week with just a few things on the agenda such as western legions and going to court with my sister(first appearance for her divorce). My mother needed help canning beets so that was our first task on Monday. Carla my sister in law and I proceeded to work on the beets Monday morning and got them all canned and had a blast doing them. Tuesday we went to St George for a doctors appointment for my mother and did the food shopping for the rest of the week. Wednesday was pretty quiet I spent the day mostly setting up and trying to find the times table tape my parents had when we were kids. It was on a reel to reel tape so I had to set up the player and keep loading different tapes to find the one they wanted. My mother wanted to copy it to the computer so we could make a disk for my niece, to help her out with her multiplication learning. It was fun playing with the old reel to reel even thought it was not completely working and I got a sore arm rewinding the tapes. I should have taken a picture of it. It was all the rage back when I was a kid and my parents used it for recording lots of things. I was also trying to get find and get scanned pictures for a project I had in mind for my parents.
The project was a DVD of the family through the years. Starting with my parents and moving on with the addition of each child up to the present. This was to span the whole 50 years of their marriage. The idea was to keep it a surprise and present it to them with a viewing of the finished project. The only problem was we needed to dig through all my mothers boxes of photos to get what we needed and without them knowing what we were doing. It was not easy but we did get a couple of chance while the folks were gone to quickly dig through the photos and find what wee needed. Then to scan them and crop for the show that was another adventure. It was a game of cat and mouse to some degree with my sister in law starting the scanning and then helping to distract my parents as I completed the last of the scans. The project turned out pretty good and I know my mother loved it. She asked "Where did you get those pictures?"

I had planned on downloading the pictures from my mother computer but, time just got away from me and I didn't get it done. However my sister in law (who took most of the pictures) did and even posted them on her blog so to see our adventure please check out her blog page at http://texasbischoffs.blogspot.com/

It was a week of working on computers and tapes and canning as well as having fun with each other. I think a good time was had by all and if you know my family you know we always have a good time.