Thursday, August 11, 2011

Thompson Family Reunion

This is the Thompson family - or at least everyone that made it to the reunion. 


The Thompson family has a family reunion every other year. This year it was in Alberta, Canada. Steve is the 9th of 10 children - all of his siblings are married with children. His parents have 39 grandchildren. So. Family reunions are pretty big :)


All of the grandkids that were present when this photo was taken; arranged by height :)


We took two days to drive to Cardston, Alberta at the end of July. Ellie was a trooper! She took two days to recover from the car ride. But we learned how to make changes to help make the trip easier on her, so it was a good experience.


For the family reunion, there was only one family missing. So. There were a LOT of people there :) Since we don't make it to Canada on a regular basis, family reunions give us an excuse to plan a trip and visit family!

 Cousins
 Andrew and Ellie

 Sarah and Ellie

 Aunt Cindy, Benjamin and Ellie

 Megan and Ellie

This September, Steve's parents will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary! In their honor, we had a celebration program. At the end, we took photos with Grandma and Grandpa Thompson.


 The last day of the reunion, we had family pictures taken.

 Ellie's close-up

 What a great family!

2 comments:

mel nielson said...

I love Ellie's close up photo- so beautiful. I also love the photo of Grandma and Grandpa Thompson smiling at each other- so sweet! And a two day journey with a young baby- I say you guys are the troopers! :)

Rachael said...

I love the close up as well!!