Dinner and Ice Cream Celebrations

Family Search's question for July 29th was: How does your family celebrate significant milestones?

My family loves to go out to dinner or ice cream to celebrate something great, or console something sad. We have gone out to celebrate graduations, making it onto a dance team or a play. If we were celebrating or consoling me and we went to get ice cream, I always chose Baskin Robins. If we went out to dinner, I picked what ever my favorite place was at the time.

We went out for my elementary school, middle school, and high school graduation. We went out to console me when I didn't make the Varsity ballroom team, then we went out to celebrate when I got moved up a few months later! We went out after dance performances, and after my brother's play and musical performances. When I got married, we continued these kind of celebrations. We went out after I went through the temple for the first time. We went out for Gerson's college graduation, and mine. My dad also took us all out when Gerson got transferred instead of laid off. Every time we learned the gender of our kids, we would go out.

When it comes to religious celebrations, we have bigger dinners at home with our extended family.

We have family parties after baby blessings, baptisms, priesthood ordinations, and mission farewells/homecomings. At the family party after my baptism, my parents gave me my cat Tiger. At the family party after Benjamin's blessing, we got our first 5 generation picture. Luna's baby blessing was coupled with Christmas celebrations because she was blessed two days after Christmas.

We have lots of celebrations in our future, and I can't imagine the way we celebrate changing. 😉