I think a tradition is just something that happens, people have a great memory of it, and so they do it again and again. Before they know it, they wouldn't go without it. It would be breaking a tradition! No one really knows when they began, they just did. I think we started a tradition: a BanClan Reunion. When the kids start living far away and the times you get everyone (everyone possible) together seem less and less often, when you are together, it seems like a reunion. I hope it starts that way anyway. Even so, it was hard not to think something or someone was missing. He was. But Braden is much happier where he is, doing what he is doing. For right now, we are just practicing this reunion thing until he comes home and we know how. By then, maybe we will even have t-shirts!
Darci and Joe came up to check out a few PT schools, so we decided to pack as much in one week as possible: amusement park...check, water park...check, day on the river, complete with beach time...check, camping complete with s'mores, hiking and canoeing...check. Somehow between all of these, Darci and Joe visited University of Washington (and the "gum wall") in Seattle
and Eastern Washington University in Spokane.
They have more schools to see, and tests to take before they know where they will land, but we are glad they fit us, and our reunion, into their schedule.We also registered Kolby and Cameron for Richland High and Melissa for Carmichael Middle School. We are done with elementary school! Wahooo!
