The reunion itself was very nice. I seen some that I haven't seen in years . Many of my cousin's grandchildren ( man that makes our generation sound old !!)and some's children, I had never met. My Grandmother, who will be ninety two Aug. 22nd was in attendance. Though dementia had her confused and her health is declining quickly, she seemed to take things well. Many of us were snapping picture after picture so she probably couldn't see much for the constant flashes.Once home I had about a hundred pictures, some pretty good, others not. I got a great idea to have Mike photo shop the good out of many pictures and come up with a Family portrait of Dad's family. Though Grandpa passed when I was in second grade and Aunt Gloria passed way too young in a car accident, the living members of the family had posed for several pictures. Mike spent five hours working on this task and finally handed it over to me . Because I wanted better quality printing than my photo printer at home provides, I uploaded the picture to Walgreen's .com . As soon as I did the phone rang. The sweet girl told me that this picture looked professional and they could not print professional ( copy written) photos. I laughed and told her that Mike did it and offered to bring in the lap top and show her the pictures that he took pieces from and show her how he did it. She was convinced and didn't even ask me to sign Walgreen's CYA form that I have had to sign before when I have had good(professional looking )pictures printed.I had a copy of the photo made for each Aunt and Uncle in addition to Dad's and Grandma's copies. Dad was floored by Mike's ( ahm, photo shop's) talent. Dad does so much for other's I was glad to be a part of doing something for him for once. Below is the picture. You probably wouldn't be as impressed as I am but It would take all day to post all the pictures that were used in making this one so just know that a lot of work and Love went into it.
