Welch Reunion '26

 We had our Welch extended family reunion with all of Wayne’s siblings and families and Wanee of course… we worked at Wanee’s home and yard— we cleaned, tore down the shed, and swing set and pruned and cut, checked sprinklers,  and made 4 dump runs out of Wanee’s backyard.  It looks like someone cares again.  Wanee supervised while, Dale, Wayne  and I, Landon, Truman, Rob, Tami, Mark, Stockton,  Savannah, Andrew, Derrick, Jane and Steve and Amy’s family all helped.  Then we showered and changed and made it to the dinner and program portion of the Reunion at Terry’s church. 

 

It was going to be at Barnes Park– but the heat was too much so we quickly went into a church.  It worked out great.  Jane had gotten some artifacts- heirlooms from Wanee and Tom and displayed and talked about the importance of them, and shared pics. Wanee put on her wedding dress again…at 90! 

 Some of the kids and grandkids put on some of the clothing items and had their pics taken in them.  It was special.  Then awe all participated in family skits based on old family memories– we had Grandpa wearing a helmet while driving the whole family in a hail storm by the Bentleys; The Ski accident with Wanee going down the hill and hurting herself by Shurtz’; we acted out the Grasshopper story from the cabin; Wanee acted out bringing baby Dale home on an airplane at 3 days old and all the stewardesses amazed that she could fly and felt and looked so good after just giving birth– she finally had to tell them he’s adopted. Mark Welch family did “old Man Jones, Skin and Bones” with Wanee getting after them; Terry’s family had pics of all the original family which they were little blown up into 8X10 sized,  with the mouths cut out, then they put them over their faces and sang a version of Love at home.. It was really cute; Tim Shurtz family did silverware in the sandbox story; Tami and Wendi’s group did “r- ted” skit that Mark loves to do—" I’ff R. Ted."    They had darling crafts for us all to make and Sandy provided a Cafe Rio style dinner.  We had about 90 people there.