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Camping is a symbol of family. It is a time families communicate and do hands on activities. My family implies camping as a tradition, we would also have our livestock around as we camp. Every summer, we spend an entire 3 months in the mountains with each other. My family also ensures that we know that family comes in all shapes and sizes. Therefore, our livestock are family. They are who we tend to and care for while we are with our family. This is a time where we would build new things and just listen to one another.

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The outdoors are very important to our family and we love them. We are always in the outdoors seeing new things and learning new things.

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Since my wife and I are not able to have children, our pets have become our children in a sense. They are all rescues and they all mean so much to us. I've had my oldest cat (Aiden) for 13 years, my snake (Izzy) for 12 years, my dog (Sasha) for five years, my cat (Bastet) for two and a half years, and my cat (Freyja) for one year.

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Although not your traditional family concept. Most of my human family is far and in between, so my husband and I have built are own.

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Travel means family to me. Every year, I travel to Wisconsin in the summer and Florida for Christmas. When I travel, I am able to see family that I only see once or twice a year.

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Sports is a symbol of my family because most of my cousins play all kinds of sports so me and my family will go to all of their games, all of us gather and cheer for them and it's so fun because we're all together.

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Growing up, my family and I loved going for a walk at where we called the Sheep Camp. This piece of our land is where my grandpa and his thirteen siblings grew up in a very small house. My grandpa has always taken us here when we felt like running off our energy and we just felt like it was home.

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Something that symbolizes my family is Christmas. It’s the only time that my family will all come together. My older brother plans everything we get together at Thanksgiving after were all done eating we take out our tree set sit up. We watch “How the grinch stole Christmas” and just catch up. My family we live apart and with our lives are busy with work and school. It’s the only time where we sit and talk about everything. Christmas is important to us.

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This is a little odd, but I don't have a great relationship with my family other than my dad. However, when I was a kid my dad and I were always the first ones up on the weekends so we had a tradition that we would get up and eat captain crunch and watch "How it's Made" together. It always made me happy doing that with him, and it meant a lot that we had that something special to just us. To this day we still always keep Captain Crunch in the house.

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Camping is something that I have done since I was a few months old. One side of my family even does family reunion camping trips. Camping is a love that I am now able to share with my partner and our two dogs and I can't wait to share it with my future littles.

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My immediate family loves camping especially when it's hunting season. Once every year there's a harvest celebration, this is a time where we can see everyone in our family and catch up. We love eating outside and learning more about our family, especially our tradition. This symbol is important to me because camping allows me to see new family members and welcome new ones in. It also helps with learning new things about our traditions.

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My family was very in to having communal food-centered get-togethers like cook outs/barbecues, church suppers, and holiday dinners. So the picture I chose is of barbecue because that's a common food that we would eat on special occasions.

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The outdoors is a symbol of what family means to me. My family loves to travel and explore places when we are there and each time new memories are created.

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Family time out in the country included aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. We went camping as often as possible, creating some amazing memories from fishing and playing cards to hiking! Gathering around the fire at night and roasting marshmallows is a tradition that is carried on today!

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Chapter 12  Points to Ponder - Monkey Family

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This fire pit means family to me because it is actually my family fire pit. Every time I go to visit, we will gather around this fire pit and share stories and ideas with each other. This fire pit harbors so many long night with my family.

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The symbol for the Native American Church (NAC) is what family means to me. Since I was a child, my grandfathers have run meetings with my entire family present. During the night, we would stay up til dawn, singing songs and saying prayers for blessings for all of us. When everything was said and done, we would all have breakfast together. Family is everything to me; that is what this symbol represents.

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Baseball is a symbol of family to me. I grew up on the baseball field and my family is now growing up on it. Most of the time thats where my family (Grandparents, parents, siblings, uncles, cousins) meet up now that we moved out of town to be there together to watch my children grow but also spend time together. This photo also means a little more to me. It was taken in Albuquerque where all my family is and I grew up. The Sandia Mountains are a big part of my "home" and "family" feeling and the sunset also reminds me of family. So this picture has a lot that is a symbol of family for me.

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Even though its only once a year, my family is HUGE on christmas, its the one time all my family can put drama aside or gets along for this once a time a year and actually be happy and celbrate it. Plus, we never miss a christmas together.

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Food is big in my family. Making sure everyone is full and happy and getting to have the quality time together while we enjoy it. That’s why food is my symbol for family.