Pictures of Willy's 50th and Campbells galore! (part 2)

It was so great to hang out with all my Dad's family! What a great way to spend a Saturday!

Here's my Uncle Mike with my Mom and Keoni.

Chattin' up a storm and a whole lot of stories!

Then Uncle Willy arrived. . . SURPRISE!!

Christine, Willy's wife, got everyone of the brother's and their Aunt Dorothy together for a photo op.

 

Love this photo.

This one too.

Bryan's band, Deep Cover was there.

My Keoni bear was there, doing stretches I guess.

Dancing was was being done and fun was being had by all!

This is my cousin Kimby, Willy's youngest, and me.

My brother, Kaliki and our Uncle Kevin.

What a day. I have so many photos I just posted a few here and there ones. I'm looking forward to seeing them all again. I hope sooner than later.

I Heart Faces weekly contest ~ Celebrating Teens

On I Heart Faces the theme for photo submissions this week is "Celebrating Teens". You don't have to be a teen to enter but you do need to have a teen (age 13-19) in your photo.

The photo I chose is one I took just this weekend. I don't have many photos of teens but now that I am paying much more attention to how a photo comes out here is one I like.

The subject is Cameron he is 14 and a great kid! He is the son of my cousin Amy, so that makes him my second cousin? Here we are at a family reunion of sorts and I was trying to get him to do that Charlie Chaplin kind of thing. The one where you jump and kick your heels together. I tried to demonstrate as well as I could in a skirt. It didn't quite work out but in the meantime he gave me a quick thumbs up and I caught that.

You can see more entries at http://www.iheartfaces.com/.

Holy moly the Campbells were here!

My life has been pretty crazy lately and it just got crazier! Who would ever think that in a million years that 7 out of my Dad's family of 8 siblings would get together for their youngest brother's 50th birthday! What a hootenanny! That is a word, I just looked it up. It happened, I was there, and I loved it more than I ever thought I would. Most of these people I hadn't seen in over 20 years and some of the brothers hadn't seen one another in over 30 years. Unfortunately, Duncan the oldest was not able to make it. Still, what a great time was had by all!

Here they are from oldest to youngest which is not so young as he is now 50! !

   

Photos top to bottom are: Michael, Mike - Donald , Donnie - Peter, Pete - Kevin - Scot - Mary - William, Willy.

More on the Campbells and Willy's 50th Birthday in next post!

Family Reunion in Nevada

Top row: Aunty Iris, Aunty Judy, Uncle David, my Mom Audrey
Bottom row: Aunty Laura, my Grandma, Uncle Ernie

Over the 4th of July weekend my parents, Bryan, Keoni and I drove down to Nevada to attend the Hicks-Williams family reunion. My Grandma is a Williams and a lot of family lives around where she lives. It was a lot of fun to see relatives that I had never met before. It was also wonderful to be able to see relatives I only see now and then. It was a lot of work getting it all together but with all of our family we got it done. It was a Friday and Saturday affair, with music, swimming, dancing, talking and lots of food!

Uncle David and Bryan jammed with local musicians.

Megan and her Mom, Aunty Iris.

My cousin Joseph with his wife, Sheila and their son Graeson.

My mom and of course, Keoni!

Grandma, Karen and Jeannie. I hadn't seen Jeannie and Karen in years. . . and years!

Grandma, Aunty Laura, Keoni and me gathering right before a little celebration of my cousin Sidney's birthday.

Daddy and Keoni enjoying the pool! It was so nice to get to go swimming in the hot weather.

Gordon showed us all quite a beautiful display of how our ancestors used to dance.

His sister also showed us a woman's dance. She brought tears to my eyes.

Bryan and my Dad, Scot tuning up for a jam session.

Sidney and Sam, two of my Uncle David's kids

Mr. and Mrs. Goofball

There was so much more family than I could name or take pictures of but I thought I would share just a glimpse of our weekend. Happy 4th of July!!