Caiti brought her boyfriend Cody along……
Taylor brought Morgan……
and of course, Marcus and Katilin joined us…..
My sister hosted our family renunion at her spacious and gorgeous house…..
—where we ate too much of this…..
and got to meet baby Piper!
and got to visit with our out-of-town relatives…..
we ended the night with a bonfire and smores.
and although my kitchen is still not quite done, I did get the old pantry converted to a small half bath. This is my favorite little bathroom in the house. We all fight over it!
Archives for July 2010
Tales from the 4th of July, part 1
We started out our holiday extravaganza by picking up Mal from the airport. He’s the oldest of this large brood of children and we feel so lucky that he took time off work to come and visit. We know that these times of most of us being all together will get fewer and farther between.
then we wasted no time heading to the water to play on this……
and this
and this……
Our sweet neighbor invited our gang for dinner!?! We enjoyed wonderful food and company and then went back to the lake to watch fireworks from the boat.
The boys enjoyed some ceeegars.
The girlies got excited about the fireworks.
And the dogs went a little crazy.
BTW, dogs + lake = stinky.
stayed tuned for part 2.
10 years of bliss!
What greater thing is there for two human souls
than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen
each other in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow
to share with each other in all gladness,
to be one with each other in all the silent
unspoken memories?
George Eliot (1819-1880)
Happy Anniversary honey. A lifetime won’t be enough. Love you.