We raced back from Medora for our family dinner and talent show.
As part of the dinner, we had cake and ice cream to celebrate my Great-aunt's 90th birthday in September and another cousin's 80th birthday this summer.
Happy Birthday!
The talent show featured a few poems in honor of my Great-aunt, piano playing, guitar playing, autoharp playing with a bit of yodeling, lots of singing, and a tribute to all the Veterans in our family.
The instrument she is playing is an autoharp. It does not play automatically, but it does automatically create chords when the buttons are pushed.
I was very proud of my girls as they asked "the sisters" to join them in doing a skit. The sisters were enthused and happily played along!
We ended the night with more "conversations", but shorter as many cousins had to leave early to catch flights home.
I feel bad for my girls future college roommates! Maybe they'll learn to keep their space cleaned before then.
The next morning we went to Taylor, ND to attend the worship service at Taylor Lutheran Church where my Great-great-grandfather Thorvald Larsen was a pastor. Thorvald, working with the Board of American Missions of the Norwegian Lutheran Church, used this as his home base to found about 15 other churches in the West Slope area. After worship we had a wonderful family picnic.
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