Family Time

Saturday we went to Mark's family reunion up the canyon. His Dad's brothers and sister get together every other year, taking turns with who's home state it is in. A lot of these reunions consist only of the elder brothers and sister, minus the children and grandchildren. It is neat to see that these siblings are still actively involved in each other's lives even though they live in differen't states. At today's reunion each of the siblings stood and took turns telling about their children/grandchildren/great grandchildren and what has been happening with their families over the past 2 years. Uncle Ray, Roy's twin brother (Mark's Dad) issued a challenge to everyone in attendance to get more involved in family history and he wants to hear at the next reunion in 2 years that we have all been engaged in some form of it. I am going to try to make it a point to type a message on my blog, with or without pictures and report what has been happening with my family. With my crazy life, I think I am doing pretty darn good by just blogging and not worrying about individual scrapbooks, journals or other forms of family history. I love how easy and less time consuming it is to just sit down and blog. I've learned to hate scrapbooking now that I have so many kids and I threw the towell in long ago with trying to keep up. So, enjoy or don't enjoy my form of family history!








Friday, September 5th was the twins' 20th birthday. Since Roy was in town for the reuinion, we decided to make it a birthday/get-together with him and the whole family. Tavyn came over but Tyson is living in Texas so he wasn't able to attend. We did call him and sing Happy Birthday and Tavyn blew out the candles for both of them while he listened on the other end of the phone.

You know you're a red neck when..................You light the birthday candles with a blow-torch!

Tavyn blowing out the candles for her and Tyson both

Kortney and her baby Diesel

Proud Daddy Brandt with his little guy Will

Grandpa Mark with his other grandbaby

Four Generations of Garrison men

All the Garrison Girls (and Will)