Keepsakes - Best Gifts Ever

When you're wondering what to give consider this. Nothing has more value than a keepsake gift. Why? Keepsake gifts are designed to be personalized. Keepsake gifts are often inscribed with the name of the recipient, dated or signed by hand. Such gifts are often so highly valued that they become family heirlooms. 

In addition, keepsakes are intimate, considerate, personal gifts that are meant to be cherished for all time.  

Keepsakes are also emotional memory triggers that convey the thought of commitment and love.  That said, keepsakes get special treatment and are endeared as much as the giver will be when presenting such a timeless special token of love and appreciation.

That's why Fimark offers 3 keepsakes books. Each book has a signature of ownership page as well as pages for notes and a journal section. Other keepsake features are unique to each book title. 

Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Guide and Keepsake

Authored by Mark A Askew
Family reunion planning at it's best. Everything you need to plan organize and manage a family reunion event. Scores of fun family activities. This complete family reunion event planning guide is a workbook and keepsake heirloom for generations to come. The reunion guide includes a timeline planner, checklists, budget list, themes and associated itineraries and dinner programs.


My Keepsake Wedding Planner

Plan the wedding ceremony, reception, wedding night, honeymoon vacation, and homecoming after the honeymoon. As well as all associated engagement events in between. This beautifully rendered full-color Keepsake Wedding Planner puts everything you need at your fingertips to plan a beautiful and unforgettable wedding, reception, wedding night and honeymoon. as well as all associated events.


The checklists, worksheets, and charts guide you through the process of planning and organizing the complete experience from engagement to the day you say "I do" and beyond.The wedding planner includes a wedding plan timeline checklist, contacts organizer, and guest list.

12 Best Life Ever Party Planners and Keepsake

The 12 BEST LIFE EVER Party and Event Planners will help you plan, organize and manage family, class, corporate and community events with ease. These planning guides inspire bonding and connecting with your friends and loved ones in ways you may never have imagined.

BEST LIFE EVER includes planning guides for celebrating baby showers, anniversaries, reunions, graduations, welcome homecoming, retirement, honorary dinners, community and corporate festivals and fairs. Includes cruise ship travel and party planner for families and larger groups. Because there is always something worth celebrating.

1 - 3 day shipping makes Fimark's keepsake event planning books the ideal keepsake gift option.

Finding A Keepsake Reunion Planning Book

A wise person once said, "We are obsessed with living precariously through the lives of unhappy celebrities with false smiles. Stop buying books about other people's lives and romances. Your life is and should be the most fascinating, inspiring and memorable to you. Write your own books about your own life. One about the challenges, the about all the good stuff  and blessings."

There is no gift you can give yourself and others like a book of life. Your life. It's not only entertaining, it's informative, inspiring, gives hope and leaves you feeling whole, contented and at peace. A good family reunion planning keepsake book should do the same. 

Get a keepsake book that shows you how to celebrate and have fun with good people in your life... complete with event planning guide and keepsake journal. A book of life..."

What do you look for in a good family reunion planning book? Notice these features of Fimark's Family Reunion Planner and Keepsake Guidebook.

Looking for a family reunion keepsake book with genealogy forms to record family tree and family research? It's in there.

Would you like a family reunion keepsake recipe compiler to record traditional meals with origin and family history notes? It's in there.

Are you looking for a family reunion keepsake journal to record those special moments? It's in there.

Are you searching for a family reunion picnic dinner program? It's in there.

Need a family reunion picnic luncheon program? That's in there.

How about family reunion itinerary ideas? Yep. It's in there.

We need outdoor family reunion games. It's in there.

You got family reunion activity ideas? It's in there too.

Looking for family reunion DNA genealogy presentation program? It's in there.

Everything you need to plan, organize and manage a memorable family reunion event.

Fimark's Family Reunion Planner and Keepsake Guidebook

Making Change The Essence of Life

As the season transitions from one to the other, we are reminded of the need to prepare for change. Just as all seasons are uniquely beautiful in their own way, change can be a turning point in a direction that gives you a closer look and a better perspective on a part of life you never knew existed.

Embrace change and adjust to the transition your mind and body are making. Give it what it requires and you may find that in some ways you are better, wiser and healthier than you have ever been.

Help your parents with their life's transition. Sometimes all that is needed is to be there. Help them feel included in your activities even if it means just telling them a lively and funny story to perk them up and showing them the photos you took just for them. Help them look at life from their new perspective. Learn what it feels like to be in their shoes. Empathize and most of all keep a healthy sense of humor.

Family Reunion Poem "The Essence of Life"

"As the crown turns gray, the family makes them silver and snow white.
 As the pages of life yellow, the family makes them golden.
 As their memories fade, the family makes them crisp and sharp.
 As the legs give way, the family sits them on a throne of wheels.
 As youth recedes, family helps us relive it through the eyes of a
 newborn.
 The Family is the essence of life. The more you love it,
 the more life loves you back."

By Mark Angelo Askew

The family is the essence of life. The more you love it, the more life loves you back.
Celebrate your family. Family reunions set the spark of life aflame once again.

Start planning your family reunion using our most popular guidebook.

Funny Family Reunion Jokes Quotes and Rhymes

What have 100 eyes, likes to mashup in a big bunch and say CHEESE?
A big fat family reunion photo shoot. 

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're still down there.

Families are like fudge .. mostly sweet with a few nuts.

“I’m here to talk about our family, but you know what they say, 'If you can't say something nice...' so, thank you all for coming!"

When your kids grandparents tell you to go easy on the kids like they were easy on you -it's not wisdom, age or experience. It's senility.

What do you call it when you have to run around with one foot in a sack, a spoon with an egg in your hand, and an apple in your mouth? A family reunion relay race.

My family is like trail mix. You got your raisins, dates and a variety of nuts.

The reason grandchildren and grandparents get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

The real reason grandparents like to stop to admire the flowers, gaze at the sky, and chat with the neighbors while taking a walk is not because they are sweet, kind and love nature. It's because if they didn't stop now and then they would run out of breath trying to keep up with their grandchildren.

My grandfather walked for miles when he was 60... Now he's 97 years old and we still haven't found him yet.

I overheard my father say to my mother... "I like YOUR mother-in-law better than I like mine.” 

Grandparents can do amazing tricks their children cannot do. They can make their teeth  disappear. They can make things look ten times bigger than they are. They can tell you things about your parents no one else knows. They can read your mind and tell you just what you are thinking before you go and do something really stupid. 

There goes another apple falling from the family tree.

My parents finally confessed that I was adopted. They said, "But the adoption didn't work out, They brought you back."

The real reason grandparents move to Florida is to escape babysitting.

FAMILY REUNION QUOTES

Where would we be if it weren't for family?

FAMILY POEMS

Like eagles we fly, glide and soar

Like whales we swim the vast ocean floor

When we've swum further than we have before

Family pulls us safely back to shore

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Where's the best place to be when you skin your knee? 

In grandma's lap 
or grandpa's knee. 
There is no place else I'd rather be
than dangling from my family tree.

Happy Family Reunion Planning Month!

Having family over for dinner this weekend? This is the ideal time of year to start planning your next family reunion. Swap photos, recipes, make a memory booklet, collect poems about family, plan a talent show, start writing and videoing your family history documentary. 

Get great family reunion event themes, slogans, booklet template, printables, game ideas and activities from Fimark's Family Reunion Planner web app and Fimark's Reunion Planning Keepsake Guidebook. 

Free Family Reunion Planning Book

Free Family Reunion Planner eBook

We're celebrating Family Reunion Planning Month in a whole new way. We're offering free stuff throughout the month of November.  First up, Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Keepsake Guidebook. Keepsake features include a signature of ownership page, journal, recipe compiler, an heirloom record, family tree worksheets, and other genealogy worksheets. 

Fimark's Family Reunion Planner

The reunion planning workbook includes a planning tutorial for individual planners, groups, and committees. There are five reunion theme planners each with recommended activities, itinerary, and luncheon/dinner programs.

FREE GUIDEBOOKLike the keepsake guidebook? If you bought this 132-page paperback book within the last 4 years you're in for a real treat. Take 5 seconds to rate the book at Amazon.com. Once you do email us at fimarkhome@gmail.com and we'll send you the Family Reunion Planner ebook completely free. Our way of saying thanks for the likes and happy Family Reunion Planning Month!

November is Annual Family Reunion Planning Month

November is here with a bang. This month history will be made. But what about your family history?
November and December are the ideal months to focus on the contributions your family has made
toward self-empowerment, the community, business and good spiritual health.

Corporate identity is not true identity. True identity begins and ends with family. It means knowing who you are, where you came from and establishing traditions that are far reaching and accomplish a purpose bigger than yourself.

Your identity is in strength and wisdom of your belief system. Your family is not restricted to one race. We each have so many more fathers and mothers from so different parts of the world than we know. It is broad and embraces many cultures, walks of life and ethnic groups. Knowing this humbles us and opens us up to endless possibilities and unencumbered love. Share this with your family and watch them grow.

momondo – The DNA Journeyby LetsOpenOurWorld

November is Annual Family Reunion Planning Month. That said, now is the time to start planning your next memorable family reunion. Consider a family genealogy presentations featuring DNA revealing reunion event. It will be a journey you will never forget. Wondering how to get started? Read about the Genealogy themed family reunion program in Fimark's Family Reunion Planner guidebook.

Fimark's Family Reunion Planner guidebook. 

The Walk To Remember

Walking is one of the healthiest activities you can take up. Especially outdoor walking while taking deep breaths of fresh air and basking in the sunlight. Vitamin D from the sun does amazing things for the brain, body, and overall state-of-mind. Feeling down? Take a walk. Need to loosen up and think. Take a walk. While you're at it, get the whole family to join you. Make it something special. Something more than just a family stroll. The fact is every family should experience at least one walk to remember in their lifetime. This is not just any walk. It's a walk through the lives of one, two, or more generations of the family. It's called, The Walk of Your Life. 

The Walk of Your Life is about telling a story rich with details you can see, hear, touch and feel. Each story consists of a walk through a town, city, state or country with a map in hand While visiting specific locations marked on the map a written story is told about family members activity on location while walking from one spot to the other.

Too better understand the impact of such a walk I recommend following a family on such a journey. The movie is entitled "We bought a Zoo". A true story about a family that had a dire need to connect, so they did something rather odd. They bought a zoo. Learning to work together they found a way to mend their lives and recover by trying to find their place in this new life of their own choosing. Finally, the children of this young family are brought full circle as they walk through a restaurant and hear a touching story of how their father and mother met and fell in love. 

Guided Tour

The Walk of Your Life gives kids a fresh opportunity to connect or reconnect with family in a way they may never have imagined. It's an opportunity to merge the present with the past and explain how the relationship of their parents or grandparents came to be. It helps them draw closer to their family while hearing their story brought to life in a way they never before experienced.  It's like opening a book rich with family history, self-discovery, nostalgia, and felicity. 

The Walk of Your Life may be in the form of a guided tour of the places in town that touched the lives of the family in very special ways. Perhaps a walk that follows the weekly routine of the grandparents and parents in the family. 

Map The Course

Draw a map of all the spots you or your parents frequented. Next, locate the schools they attended. The one spot they met. Now locate fond places they liked to frequent and things they did while there. 

Draw lines connecting each spot together progressively as the relationship advances from acquaintance to friendship to companionship to partnership and commitment.

Tell The Story

Tell a story about a specific experience that occurred then and there. Stories that help define that moment in time. Recreate the atmosphere, sounds, smells, activities, feelings and nostalgia of the times spent there. Talk about how the relationship grew stronger, how and why feeling ran deeper and ascended to new levels.

On Location

Enter the store, parlor or office. Explain what took place there and how that experience defined the course their lives.  Perhaps it was a bookstore or mom and pop shop with the best pizza in town sizzling in the oven. Freshly baked sweet cakes and cookies that melt in your mouth.  A table in the corner of a diner where mom was asked out on the first date. A photo booth where dad and mom took their first silly photo together. A water fountain where mom and dad sat, talked and fell in love. The place they were wed. The first apartment they lived in. The window of a room in the house in which the children were conceived and so on. 

The Walk of Your Life can conclude with dinner at a family restaurant that may one day be a part of the map the kids will make when they take their children on the walk of their lives.

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Planning a family reunion?  Fimark's Family Reunion Planner. Everything you need to plan a wonderful family reunion.