March 1, 2011

What were your favorite family traditions?

I suppose my favorite traditions would have to be using the outdoor fireplace in the summer for family dinners and entertainment. It was always a chore to take all the food from the house down to the fireplace but it was also always worth it. Sometimes the bugs were also a bit bad but that didn't seem to dampen it much either.

Sleeping out side on the 23rd of July so the canon's going off would wake us up on the 24th of July. That was always quite fun. Here again the mosquitos were sometimes a pain or an itch but still fun.

Making homemade ice cream in the summer and swimming in the canal. These were also fun even though the entire family was not always involved in the swimming part.

And maybe this wasn't a tradition but it seemed like it and that was going to Dinosaur land with the cousins every year or so.

Then of course the annual trips to Grandpa Hansen's and the Christmas evenings with Grandma Poulson.

I suppose that was probably most of them that I may or may not have written about. The Family Home Evenings or Sunday Evenings singing around the piano would also have been included in this list as well.