Some photos for posterity

After the funeral, we had a family dinner provided by the good ladies in the Wells Ward Relief Society.  My grandma had seven children, 38 grandchildren, 81 great children.  And spouses.  You do the math.  It was a lot of food.

We took pictures too.

The girls cousins:

trying to get organized...laughing more than organizing...

almost there but something was terribly funny...

And done.

The back row:  Erica, me, Marianne, Catherine, Olivia, Hannah, Jessica and Danielle
Front row:  Sarah, Leslie, Molly, Elizabeth, Shanon, Margaret, Rebekah, Gretchen, Rachel, Susan and Dixie

The boys:

Sorry about the spots.  We'll call them magic dust.

Back row:  Jordan, Tavan, Micah, Lincoln, Jason, Ira, Alexander, Zachary, and Nathan
Front row:  Austin, Harvey, Enoch, Ammon, Cedric and Tabor

Someone needed to say, "Hey, let's not have the biggest boys in the front so we can see everyone in the back."  Maybe no one wanted to.  The biggest boys are...big.  The NFL player doesn't even stand out too much, does he?

Here's my dad and his siblings:

Jennifer, Joe, Demar, Claudia, Drew, Olivia and my dad, Mark

There were 50,000 people trying to take pictures (perhaps an exaggeration) and I think everyone was looking at different cameras.

And here's the whole gang:

aunts and uncles and cousins in attendance (and a few stray great grandchildren too)

Back at Olivia's, we took a picture of our immediate family:

It's not perfect but we are ALL there.  That, ladies and gentleman, is an accomplishment.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.  

Anthony Brandt