Reunion

This last weekend we had the second annual Sudan Family Reunion. We had a lot of fun but it was sobered by a couple of events. The first was the death of our oldest brother a year ago and the hole that that has left. The second was the recent MVA that my neice, Carly, was in where she fractured her C-6 vertebrae and had to have surgery. She is recouperating in Houston with her father, Phil, and that whole branch of the family was unable to make the reunion. Fortunately she is doing well and should not have any long term deficits. God truly had mercy on her even in the midst of a tragic event.

Despite these things we gathered at our Lakehouse on Cedar Creek Lake, though because of numbers some stayed at a hotel in Gunbarrel City. It started out on a bad note as it rained all Friday morning (though certainly hard to complain when you get rain in Texas in august). We were able to visit, eat some pizza and then the sun came out and it was beautiful with perfect temperature, and we were able to get out on the boat and do some tubing and wake boarding. We capped it off with some juicy cheeseburgers and lots of googling after grandkids.

The next morning we had the Sudan version of the Olympics with darts, game of washers and a new game of golf rings. It was a lot of fun and of course we Sudans are all competitive. Then it was back on the boat for the youngsters and some lounge time for the rest of us. Late that afternoon we donned our new Reunion T-shirts and posed for the Reunion picture. Asetting on the dock was chosen and after a few pics with one more left to go, we suddenly found ourselves on the bottom of the lake. The dock collapsed under the weight of all of us and we fell in. Fortunately nobody was hurt badly (my mother had a hematoma of her leg) but it was a little scarry as my mother does not swim and hates the water, and Jayden went under with Jordan holding on to him. It will be a fun memory in future years.

That night we were able to get it back together to play Hardhead Squares, Ginny's version of the old game show. It was a blast and Bruce won for the second year in a row. Sunday was a relaxing day with pancakes and then packing up to leave, but not without a few more games of golf rings. I never was able to beat Christy. I am so thankful for a family that truly loves each other and gets along so well. It was fun to have two new babies for the first time, both of whom were answers to prayer. It was last reunion that we all gathered around Erin to pray for her as she was having a hard time getting pregnant. Hopefully there will be more and more as the years move on.