Reunioning

Summer (the season), as I mentioned in a previous post, has become a bit of a blur. The school year was both one minute and half a century ago and with Girls' Camp, which will spit me out (in who knows what condition) at the end of July, already looming ... I can see a quick slide into Fair Week (which is a thing to be capitalized these days), wedding and ... school again.

I feel to weep that we haven't somehow been lazing about repeatedly at Bear Lake. (Was time slower once?)

But we did get up there once at the start of summer (a lifetime ago? yesterday?), and, luckily, Mike's mom arranged another of her grand family reunions that got us there for another near-week at the end of June.

We've had the Harris reunion every other year since Penny was crawling, and it's so interesting to have experienced it through so many seasons/stages of life. (I must admit that it is quite a bit easier when nobody desperately needs a nap or an early bedtime.)

Here is a tidy little pile of pictures from the event. Some I took. Many I just grabbed from the shared family album. How my kids love several days with cousins and fun!

Goldie Turns 21

Goldie turned 21.

And when did we celebrate this notable changing of age? 

Was it the weekend Daisy made curry and cinnamon rolls? No. That can't have been it. Goldie had birthday stew, not birthday curry. 

Was it on her birthday? No. Not that either. She was off doing the Moab session of EFY. 

Was it the same weekend that we celebrated the 4th of July roasting hotdogs at the farm and watched the Cache Valley Cruise In? Maybe? But that seems a lot to have celebrated in one short weekend. 

The summer is becoming a blur.

Still, it remains: her birthday was celebrated; and since she too seems on the cusp of following Abe's footsteps into making off to begin a family of her own, it might have been one of her last as one of the kids living (at least for the odd week here and there between EFY sessions) under our roof.

(While the kids did indeed enjoy giving her little gifts and eating her strawberry shortcake, I think the highlight of the birthday for them was the pins. Daisy wanted to gift Goldie a few pins to, well, pin on things, and decided to buy a pin maker of her own in order to give Goldie just the right pins. She let the little kids help her and the weekend ended with countless pins of everything one might conceive having a pin of: LOTR, Over the Garden Wall, inside jokes, Pride and Prejudice, etc. etc. ETC!)

Happy 21st Goldie!