Families......they are there from the time that you are born until you die.  When you need people to talk to you have family around that will listen and not judge, they will be there to give advice and accept you no matter what you do.  They will also never give up.  There will be times in everyone's life that they go down the wrong path and they will need all the help they can get.  But ultimately it is up to them if they take the advice or let it go through one ear and out the other.  People on the outside never know what is going on in a family that they don't have an everyday connection with.

This is my family! We are missing on important person my nephew, Charles.  I wish we lived closer so that we could hang out more because we have all changed.  It has been years since we all lived in a house together.

This is a picture of me and my cousin, Dianna Drollette.  You can tell that we are related and we have also not seen each other since my older brothers wedding which was 6 years ago.  When you don't live in the same state it is hard to find time to be able to see each other.  We all get busy but we need to set time aside to be able to get to know each other.

A picture of me and my Grandma Tincher, my dads mom.  I haven't had a picture taken with her since I was about 10 or so give or take a couple of years.  I love my Grandma but wish that we were closer.

Here are two pictures of the Heiner side of my family.  The first one is of us girls who are all related, we each have different last names but because of the Heiner's we are related and close.  The second one is of those who were at the reunion a couple of weeks ago.  If you count everyone that is a Heiner we are at about 100 people, only a fourth was able to come to the reunion.  It is so cool to have that big of a family and still find time to get together.

Families are to be together forever.  We may get on each other's nerves sometimes and fight a lot but we still love each other and respect everyone.  There has never been a time when I have wished that I have had a different family.  We are brought to this earth to our families because there is a purpose we are suppose to fulfill.

Every day is a new adventure.  During our lives we will meet new people every day and then there will also be times when we do something that makes those around us mad.  Because of one person’s actions it can change each other’s immediate family member’s lives. 

There is this family and then there is another family, the head of the households are brothers and 10 years apart.  When the kids were young they always went to each other’s houses and liked to spend time together.  Then during one hunting trip something was said and after that day they stopped talking to each other.  Years have passed and there was still no contact between the families.

 This is a story of how I felt during this altercation between families.  I remember playing with my young cousin all the time and all the sudden it stopped and then years later we were seeing each other again.  It has been 5 years since I have seen my younger cousin.  We are only separated by a year but we do so much of the same things, you can tell that we are cousins.  Because of one little argument we have missed so much of each other’s lives.  Families are supposed to be together forever but we also need to learn to watch what we say and learn to forgive. 

While being here in Utah I have been able to stay with the family that I haven’t been able to get to know.  There are so many similarities that we have also seen in Grandma.  There are many things like big calves, eye rolling, a condescending tone, and being funny.  I feel like I fit into this group finally which is weird since it is my family.  I am trying to get to know my extended family before it is too late.