47th Annual Soria Family Reunion

We just spent Labor Day Weekend in Fresno and Merced to celebrate the Soria Family Reunion. My Grandmother Eleanor Soria Olivarez' Family started this tradition 47 years ago. We have had it just about every year out at Lake Yosemite in Merced. Every year there is a theme, for instance, this year was Hawian. Along with everyone dressing to the theme of the year there is always a parade and performances. I will be updating the Blog with the performances later! My mom's cousins, the Contrares' brothers and their sister are famous for their wacky performances and my mom's uncles who are getting close to 90! are usually in the act.
We all had a great time, the weather was nice, we ate too much and got to spend time with my aunt and uncle from Montana and cousin Jason and his wife Lindsay from Arizona. And we were all enchanted with little Nathan, my cousin Patricia's little boy. He is the first boy in the great grand child generation!


The original 9 Soria siblings

Big Sur 09

In August we took a trip down to Big Sur to visit New Camaldoli Monastery. Cyprian was giving a retreat while we were there so John was able to sit in on his talks in between beach time, meal time and prayer time. We took a little trip down to Sand Dollar Beach for part of the afternoon and also went up the mountian to visit Jack, who is a friend of the community's. It was REALLY HOT while we were there, but we still managed to have a good time. We celebrated Luci's birthday with Cyprian and some of the Monks and enjoyed the beautiful views.

View of Big Sur from Jack's house

Fun times at Sand Dollar Beach!






Girls with Uncle/Nino/Cyprian :)

My new favorite picture...

Evie passed out before we even got back down to Hwy 1!