Post 7 of Top 7 Blog posts of 2012: Family Time

What’s a 125 foot slip and slide got to do with “family time”?  This past July we had a fun-filled family reunion at our home.  The 125 ft slip and slide was my husband’s brain child.  What a huge success it was.  The kids loved it and spent three days ‘slip and sliding’.  Several of the adults cast their adult cares aside and joined in the fun.  There was cheers and laughter among those of us who were watching. 

Family time for our families (both sides) is very important to us; we love our times together.  Everyone pitches in with providing meals.  Everyone brings or makes a food dish.  One brother brought 350 crappie fish filets and fried them for Friday night’s fish fry.  (What fish we didn’t eat made great snacks the next day.)  Another brother makes wonderful desserts which we all enjoy.  It’s hard to decide which is best…pineapple upside down cake or chocolate chip pecan pie.  Two nephews were great ‘grillers’.  They didn’t burn a single bratwurst. 

Our family members travelled far distances:  from California, New Mexico, Texas and New Jersey to spend time together.  We appreciate their making the journey so we could spend time together.  There was lots of laughs, lots of good food, lots of fun and…you guessed it…lots of slip-n-slide.