The First Married Grandchild!

A collection of photos from Meagan and Stephen's big day.

Hi Family - I obviously need help on figuring out how to use this crazy family blog. Blogs are a mystery - my generation was all about privacy and identity protection. This new tech is all about baring your soul to the entire world (including future friends, spouses, employers, etc). I really don't get it. After my lame attempt to post to the blog, I will use old email tech to send around a similar message.

My thought tonight: mom and dad just had their 49th anniversary, and mom has thrown down the gauntlet, basically telling us kids it is our responsiblity to come up with and idea for their 50th anniversary. So here is my brainstorm - braindump as I sit in my boring hotel in Norwalk CT. Note: I have given no thought to finances yet which is obviously a concern for all of us, so this is just a brainstorm.

-Charter a motor home and go on a 2 week cross country tour (adults only) with video cams and tape recorders to make a documentary on all key places in their lives (high schools, old houses, job locations, ward houses, hotel brigham, slc temple, etc)

-Charter a bus and go from temple to temple on the east coast, doing sessions from Orlando to Boston

-Charter a sailboat and cruise the carribean

-Surprise party at some place cool, like a resort or something on MD eastern shore

-No charter no travel, but we all work to make a video presentation like "This is your life" - include multi media photos from their wedding, young married life, etc

-Week at the beach with adults only

-Give them a free night at a bed and breakfast in hunt country va then show up with all of us and our kids for a surprise dinner party

-Send a letter to Sarah Palin and ask her to have dinner with mom and dad (ok it's late)

-invite them to a temple session with just the adults and their spouses, and then they show up and they see 80 closest friends and relatives ready to go through the session

-family trip to grand canyon, glacier national park, or yellowstone

-sell their house for them and buy them a condo (ok, now it's really late)

-I'm done.

Please let me know your thoughts. 8/11/2010 will be here WAY TO SOON