Memories from our 2025 summer get together at the Brown's river house. Feel free to add your own.
- Mom and Rachel ride the Trax to the airport, are worried about getting stuck in the Pioneer Day parade, but end
up getting prime view through the middle of the parade
- Vivian and family, Carrie and Theo, and Sydney arrive in Sacramento airport first, and uber to Costco to do food
shopping. 7 people with all the bags on flatbed in Costco, hanging out in the furniture section like they live there.
Employee: Did you come in through the front door?
- Cars very full with people and luggage and food tucked away in any open spot. Levi: "Who lives in a pineapple
under the seat!". We go over a big bump in the road and check in on Jackson crammed into the way back: "I was
itching my nose..."
- "Heritage tacos" for dinner on pioneer day, complete with mixing bowl and ketchup. Many of the children are
very concerned.
Claire: "Mae was feeling sad before the trip and I was trying to distract her with another subject so I was telling
her about the food at the river house. When I told her about the ketchup tacos she burst into tears"
Vivian taking a selfie with Sarah almost choking on her tacos from laughing so hard
Sydney brought a super strong magnet for magnet fishing which provided many hours of entertainment. We
recovered a hundred nails. a trowel, a huge pot, and an anchor.
- Talking about who is most likely to get a tattoo (which led to, who is most likely to get drunk). Sarah: I got real
close one time. I once had a mountain dew.
- 17-person flotilla with only a few paddles causes minor havoc but we successfully make it to the boat launch for
takeout. Random guy as we're attempting to get off the river: "we're going to launch a boat here..." Vivian: "no
you're not."
Lots of fun games and activities like hide and seek with cell phone clues, Chameleon (Jackson: "Pizza!"), telephone
charades, guess who's under the blanket, Among Us, Fortnite ("Claire, one of the boys needs you to take over for
them on Fortnite" Claire: *runs out of the room to go play), homemade cotton candy, graduation for Jackson, blackberry picking, karaoke, brunch with Dad and Kathy, senior photos for Jackson and Theo.
Other quotes:
This is the most Christlike thing we've done (about eating the old half-full bin of m&ms that belonged to the
Browns and leaving them half of ours)
Viv I like your haircut. Thanks, is it punk rock enough?
Now whose fault was that and what did we learn? (Jackson, after the boys were throwing something at each other
and it ended up in the river.
