Tracy Family Pictures

During our Tracy family reunion last month we had family pictures taken. 

A good friend of mine from High School, Allix Atagi, is now a photographer and we hired her for the task of wrangling this bunch and I must say, she did a great job! 

Of course the award for worst behaved goes to my child. But Allix did manage to capture a few smiles and/or Photoshop the rest ;)

The whole gang.

Norah's not much better in this one lol.

10 grandchildren and counting.

All seven children

Here's a few of my favorite family shots...

And a personal favorite...Norah and Grandma Tracy

Now the hard part...to pick which ones to frame and hang!

Tracy Family Reunion

A few weeks ago the Tracy family had their first family reunion. All seven kids, plus THEIR families! It's not very often all of us can get together at the same time so it was a special opportunity. 

(this picture is slightly misleading because Rachel and Scott and the girls did not have the pleasure of going camping)

We packed up the car with camping gear and headed to MO to meet up with the Tracy Clan for a few days on the river. Sunny they told me it would be. Warm they said. Family tradition were words I heard. Instead we got rained out, literally. So after two wet nights, we packed up and headed back to camp Grandma where we spent the rest of our week playing.

Camping may not be my thing. But family is. I mean look at this crazy bunch...

I got pretty lucky;)

Camp Grandma was heaven for Norah. She got to play with her cousins. 10 cousins ranging in age from 1-6 years old. They swam in Grandma's pool, played dress up and doll house. I loved seeing her make memories with her cousins. I hope she has more opportunities like this to do so. 

(Here they are watching Frozen on "Norah's" Ipad...as they called it. Sigh...)

We had an awesome time being with family we haven't seen in far too long and hope this can become a more regular thing. 

Thanks for the memories everyone!

The Fab Four Reunite

The Fab Four....plus 1 and 2 belly's!

A MONTH AGO (ya I'm behind) our very dear friends Brody and Kylee came for a visit. Last time we saw each other we were saying our goodbyes after Daniel and Brody graduated from Thunderbird in 2011. That was THREE years ago! When it was just the four of us. Now we have Norah and as you can see Kylee and myself are expecting little ones! It may seem like lots has changed. But really, when you make life long friends, three years can go by and it feels like nothing.

We had a great time picking up where we left off. Playing games each night, quoting Arrested Development, and being our typical hilarious selves.

We took them to the shore to see Lake Michigan and introduced them to Pronto Pups. 

And I quote Kylee, "These are the best corn dogs I've ever had!"

We had probably the best weather we've had all summer, luckily, so we've been able to do some farmers market shopping, playing outside and walks by the river. As you can see, Norah made herself a new little friend;)

 Wow, do we sure miss these guys or what?! 

Hopefully it's not another three years before we see them again. But if it is, I"m sure it'll be as if nothing has changed!

PS. Please come back!