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Monday, August 14, 2006

A Vacation from Vacation

I'm home...I'm tired...I'm smiling!

My whole family got together this weekend to celebrate my parents 50th anniversary. All my "family of origin" (me, Mom, Dad, and sibs) and their "extensions" (spouses and kids), along with my extensions (husband, kids, kids-in-law, grandbaby-to-be) were there! Yaaay! Family photo time! There were 20 of us, so we took 81 shots, then "photoshopped" good expressions from one shot to another until we had one good family portrait.

In the afternoon, the extended family came for an informal reception. Aunts and uncles, cousins and their kids...they added another twenty-three, for a total of forty-three! Trying to have conversations with everyone was a new event I call "speed chatting".

We were the perfect illustration of a Yogi Berra quote, "It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much." ;)

An interesting sidenote — my brother-in-law entertained himself by doing the math and discovered that the married couples in my "family of origin" (Mom & Dad, sibs & me & our spouses, our married kids & their spouses) have all together accumulated 139 years of marriage! Wow!

Now all I need is a vacation to help me recover from my summer vacation! :)

2 comments:

Hummel Family said...

i just wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU for all the sweet comments and for all the prayers! Its so weird, but I feel we know eachother so well, I visit your blog often. And yes, G'ma W and my parents all remember you!

Thank you for your prayers and for the website you sent my way! I truly appreciate you!

Love
JoEllen

Jaena said...

What a legacy, Marcia. Inspiring to read about.