A Family Reunion For Both Sides

This is Melissa and her daughter Rya. Melissa is Leland's daughter. I met her for the first time last week. I fell in love with her darling little girl.
Melissa was telling me you can get places on the web to print off your blogs and put them in a book. At the end of each year you could have a book or history of your past year. I was excited since I love to blog, it makes me feel less guilty about the history journal part of my life that I should be doing. So, with that said, I will be putting in more journal entrees. You can just ignore if you want. That's okay with me. I know when I die my cute Grand kids will love their Grandma enough to read them.



Since I could not make it to the funeral Dad asked if I would like to go to the funeral home the day before and view the body. I didn't really know what I was getting myself into or that I would enjoy myself as much as I did. I wanted to take pictures of the remaining siblings of Dad's family. This is a picture of Norma. She is so funny. I could not get her to just smile and turn to the camera.



Finally I get her to look at the camera just in time to have Marie start in on the games. I'm glad you don't have to grow up even when your eighty.



It took the spouses to get things under control. By then the photographer was a bit out of sinc and cut off half of Mom.



All joking aside. I loved this day. What a great day to see family come together here on earth while we know another family reunion is happening with Dee and his loved ones. I loved just sitting on the couch and listening and watching these great family members share experiences, laughter, tears and memories not only of Dee and his life, but of their own lives that they have created. It was neat to talk with Leland and meet is wife and daughter and grand-daughter. To just sit and let the spirit of this great occasion seep into my heart and be reminded again that I truly am part of something grand. That I am a daughter of a Heavenly Father who loves me. And I get to take part in this great plan.






After a couple of hours at the funeral home it was decided that we would go to Chuck-a-Rama for lunch. Phyllis came up to me and quietly said, "Oh good, we get to eat at Up Chuck Your Grandma"



It was then that I realized two important things:
1- I get my irreverence from the Christensen side
2- No matter how old I get it will never go away

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!