We are FAM-I-LEE....

Parker & I finally made it to a Williams' family reunion!
Just feast your eyes on all these relatives!
2 are in utero, and I think about half a dozen
couldn't make it for one reason or another....Our four families rented cabins on Fish Lake,
high in the mountains of southern Utah.

We weren't exactly "roughing" it...The cabins were fully furnished and featured a large kitchen,
huge deck facing the lake, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and cable.
A must for the HGTV aficionados in our family.

If you squint, maybe you can imagine Scott (in CA) and Jeremy (in VA) in this picture.
(Photoshop magic is forthcoming!)

There was a whole lotta fishing and a whole lotta talk about fish,
but I only saw two of them the 3 days I was there:This crusty one my sister kept throwing rocks at, to see if it was "hard" or "squishy."

And this one. My uncle Dave caught the only note-worthy specimen.
Fortunately, we did NOT have that for dinner!
(Although one of the pregnant cousins did.
I'll have to attribute the consumption of something
that disgusting to hormonal fluctuations.)

Me, cousin Alyssa, and baby (well, she used to be!) sister Candace.

(The whitest leg is mine.)

I don't even know how many chairs that is.
It's where we sat and ate the dinner grub together
and played games during the last night.
(It was also where the highest concentration of mosquitoes could be found.)
We missed having Grandma & Grandpa there with us,
but Grandpa was still recuperating in the hospital.
I would have loved to hear Grandma's quiet voice
singing into the darkness: "I love the mountains, I love the rolling hills....."