Expanding the breath of Life

So for the very first time in 60 years my grandparents, Vern and Kaye Seely had a family reunion for just their family! What a great weekend. Now before I get into details about the fun we had I do have to say that I really wished that there was more of our family there. We seemed to be lacking a number of cousins from the states. This will have to be rectified at the next one. So we got together in southern alberta at Aunt Charlene's, which she's not really my aunt but she's mom's best friend and she happens to be her cousin as well so she's and aunt. Uncle Brian, Aunt Judy, Bree and her husband Jared, Alexa, and Ethan came from Nevada. Aunt Sandy and Sheila came from Montana and then all of the canadians were there. (of course we would all be there.... we rock!!)
We started the reunion off with a 60th Wedding Anniversary Open House in Stirling where Brittney re-created their wedding cake. Aunt Sandy had created a slide show of hundreds of pictures (the show took 35 minutes). It was great to visit with the extra family that came that night. Friday and Saturday was all reunion stuff. Food, of course, games, or course, visiting, of course, and any other typical reunion stuff!
Saturday afternoon we sat down and had grandma and grandpa share stories from their life. I think all total we recorded about an hour and half of them talking about their lives but it wasn't near enough. I could have sat their for 4 or more hours listening to them talk about their lives. As soon as I can figure out my video camera I'm gonna get some of the video up here. Start saving your pennies for the next one because I can't wait. I love my Seely family!!

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