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reunion

Reunited.

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Well, it was a wonderful day.  I’m having trouble getting my camera to load to this computer, so I’ll add pictures tomorrow.

The morning started off with gathering on our float – a huge flatbed trailer with haybales and a suspiciously large beverage pond strapped on top.  I thought we’d be having refreshments while we rode, but no.  The pond was filled with ammo.  Did you know that the sole purpose of having reunion floats in a parade is so that water fights can happen? I knew there was supposed to be a little splashing, but this was incredible!  Water balloons, super soakers, hoses (from the street) and at the end the fire trucks hosed us down. They offered ponchos to us at the start of the parade, but it didn’t matter.  We were soaked by the end.  It was awesome!

Next they had booths in the park, and Mom, Dad and Lloyd and I had a picnic lunch.  Then we walked through my old middle school that has been turned into a performing arts center.  (The lockers are still there, though.) That was strange.

After a nap and a shower, Lloyd and I went up to the big dinner at Devil’s Thumb Golf Course.   The food was delicious, and it was so fun to talk to everyone!  We left early because I’m an old lady and get tired easily.  Sorry this isn’t more entertaining but it’s late and I’m sleepy.  I’ll fix it tomorrow.  or not.

Ok, the camera is up and running. If you’d like to see a video my Dad took of the float going by, click here!  Here are some photos:

This is when we were all loaded up on the float.

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Off to the parade route.

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The view from the float.  My mom is in the yellow tank top holding a hat.  Dad is in the white shirt behind here with the camera in front of his face.  Lloyd is invisible.  That’s our theater!  Fancy, eh?

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I’m not in this picture, but you can see how well-armed everyone is.

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Notice the tank for the water, and the dripping wet alumni.

4.JPGThat’s my friend Tricia’s stitches.  It’s blurry, but I told her I’d post the picture.  You’re welcome, Trish.

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This is from Friday night.  That’s Jill, Gail, me and Tricia (and one of her cute twin boys).

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Oh boy! A book!

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I’ve been wanting to show you this for months, but I could never remember to bring it home from school. This year was my parent’s 40th wedding anniversary, and we took a bunch of old family photos from home and put together a little slide show about them that we showed at the Sommerer Family Reunion®. I kept the pictures and scanned them into Lauren’s new computer at a higher resolution, arranged them in iPhoto, emailed them to Apple, and, two weeks later, they sent me back 5 hard back books.

Go ahead, judge it by the cover.

I gave one to my folks and one to Aaron, Andrew and Christina (and one for me). I think Aaron and Andrew would have rather had something more fun, but I figured I should make one for everyone. This is the second one I’ve made. The first one was of our rip up to NYC with Brad to see The Gates in Central Park. a few years ago. These new ones are much nicer. The first one only had pictures on one side of the page. The new ones have pictures on both sides.

One of these pictures is my dad stripping.

There are a lot of options for different themes and you can add captions. But I didn’t add any. There were about 170 pictures all together. You can see them here.

left: new house. right: garndma's house

we are family

Heit’s Point II

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Some more photos of our weekend!

Lloyd, Anna and Gracen jammed out to ‘Jungle Boogie’ on his iPhone.

White boy can't dance.

How’s this for fame?  Maybe we should advertise our website on ketchup bottles!

Catsup? Ketchup?

Here is the famed giant bacon pan.  I foolishly forgot to have a quarter for scale.  It’s enormous.

You could bathe in this pan.

Uncle Mahlon entertained the kids while the moms were at Steve and Melanie’s baby shower.

Better than the circus!

This is Quentin, a super-cute dude.  I absolutely loved his shirt, and I’m so sad that it turned out blurry.  It read, “I am Tracy Allen’s little boy and my daddy’s name is Curtis.”  EVERYBODY should wear a shirt like that – it would really help me keep track!

 He's so dang cute!

Reunion – Check!

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Lloyd’s family gets together every year around the Fourth of July at a Lutheran camp in Missouri. We’re leaving Friday morning and  I was going to write down a list of things to take on a piece of paper, but I’ll just list it here.  Make sure we get it all in the car, ok?

  • clothes
  • swimsuits
  • floaty things
  • towels
  • sheets, blankets, pillows
  • sunscreen
  • bugspray
  • folding chairs
  • beer cooler
  • some stuff to eat
  • cameras, phones & chargers
  • ukuleles
  • shower present (Lloyd’s cousin Steve’s young bride is pregnant.)
  • Brad

I think that’s it.  See y’all Sunday!  (Or maybe there will be some time-delayed posts???)

Blue Hill, you saw me standing alone….

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We spent this past weekend in Blue Hill, Nebraska for Trinity Lutheran’s 125th anniversary. My grandfather, Martin Hofman, was pastor there for 14 years in the 50’s/60’s. It was very fun, because lots of my family was there! My mom and dad, Aunt Ruth and Uncle David, Aunt Becky and Uncle Norm, and of course – Mark and Rachel! Dad was ordained there in 1961, so he was invited to preach at their afternoon celebration service.

Blue Hill was a cute, tiny town, and I’ll write more about it later, but we have company now. Here are a few pictures to tide you over:

Here’s my dad at the dinner.  (The photo is from 197somthing.)

My dad, and Austin Powers

After the celebration service they had a dedication for the original church bell.  If any of you remember Joel Witt from college, that’s his dad on the far right.  He’s the pastor at Blue Hill now.
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