Saturday, June 21, 2008

McCall Family Reunion

For those of you who don't know, or who have forgotten, my mother was a McCall before she married a McCaul. Now, before you think we're some kind of Deep South inbreds, let me explain. Mother was Jackie McCall of the Geneva, Alabama McCall's. She married Ron McCaul of the Kalamazoo, Michigan McCaul's (yes, I'm 50% Yankee, don't tell anyone). So, after Mother married, her legal name became Jackie McCall McCaul. Also, Eli is Elijah McCall Walker - named for my mother's side.
So, the McCall's had their family reunion this weekend as we do every June on the Saturday after Father's Day. We have it in a different city each year, depending on which family hosts. This year, it was in Niceville, Florida hosted by the Spence & Apfel families. There are a lot of McCall roots in Niceville.
The photograph on the cake above is of Alex & Emma McCall -- that would be my great, great grandparents. Alex & Emma had a son, Daddy Doc, who had a son Daddy Mac, who had my mother Jackie. Got it?
Below are some pictures of the wonderful time we had:

Daddy making Eli laugh:
Plenty of kids to play with. Here they are having sword fights with cane poles:
Here's Jason playing balloon games with the kids. Is he the Pied Piper or what?
Here's cousin Marcus, a chef. He made the best bread pudding any of us had ever had:

Here I am with Eli & my Great Aunt Carle Dean, from Miami:
There was a fabulous spread of food:
Hugh & Grant really enjoyed playing with all of their cousins:
Here are some really neat cousins we met for the first time today, their grandmother and my great grandfather were brother and sister:
Delene, Ronda & Roxanne - our grandparents were siblings:
Danette, Misty & Kyle of Frostproof, FL:
They had neat centerpieces done with old family pics:
Reggie, Charles, & Sally - children of Regan & Edna. Edna and Daddy Mac were sibs:
Here are our wonderful hosts, working extremely hard:

2 comments:

April said...

Looks like ya'll had fun, missed ya here.

Christy said...

Loved all the pictures and the stories that went along with them. YOU LOOK GREAT-BTW!