Aunt Cele and Uncle Tom Drinan are pictured on their wedding day, October 1940. They're posing outside St. Mary's church in Muskegon.

Cele was the youngest of my dad's four sisters. Cele was the seventh of eight and my dad was the eighth of eight. Dad and Cele were close. Of all the friendly, accommodating Muskegon relatives, it seemed to me that we always stopped at Tom and Cele's first. Tom and Cele had five children Ann, Ellen, Tom, and twins Jim and Kate.

The Drinan cousins are competitive, sharp, and damn good at most things they do. If you were going to game with the Drinans, you needed to pack a lunch--and sometimes a snack. While more times than not a cousin would get smoked by the Drinans, they were gracious winners and the best of people. They still are.

Here are the Drinans who could gather on Thanksgiving 2007. From what I've heard the Drinan Family Olympics, held on Thanksgiving weekend each year, was full of fierce action. I don't know if this picture was taken before or after the events.