Meeting the Horners

These Horner’s are a rowdy bunch I tell you. Upon our 10:30 a.m. arrival to Sunbury, Ohio, this group had already managed some serious damage to a jug of wine - but we knew this would be a fun weekend.

We arrived to the tiny farm town Saturday morning and navigated our way along the dirt roads to a beautiful home plopped smack dab in the center of five wooded acres. In the back - a clearing with a beautiful pond and swimming pool.

Here’s the painful irony- it poured almost all.day.long. Goodbye pool time!

Somehow, it ended up being just as good, dare I say even more fun?! We learned so much about Tyler’s grandma’s family. We watched videos from their childhood and listened to stories about growing up on an Ohio farm. The videos… oh the videos. I would have gone just for that. We watched the little boys driving tractors, “what?! He’s like, 5!!” and “the girls are playing in dresses!” and “look at them playing in that pond!”. Today a 5 year-old driving a tractor would make the news, and we’d be told not to ruin that dress, and there’s God-knows-what in that pond, get out!

There was something so magically simple about these silent videos. Moments from a different time, a different, more simple world, captured.

Scattered across the US and now in their 70s and 80s, it is so wonderful these siblings make it a priority to still see each other. This time, we were honored to be a part of it all.

This group is rowdy, and they’ve earned the right to be just as rowdy as they want. The Horner’s sure know how to show a little family from the city a good time!