food, crochet, merriment
On an evening like this, it would have easy to take a picture of the beautiful night sky with all the stars shining—or take a close up of the gooey marshmallows roasting over the fire.
To be honest, it never occurred to me.
I was way too busy watching all these dear,
sweet…
happy people doing what we always do….
…just being together.
Family really does make for the best of friends.
A few days ago we woke up to some crazy rain. I mean, like torrents of rain. For 4 or 5 minutes it even turned to hail. I was amazed that it wasn’t even all that cold outside…just wet. We found this odd pile of hail in one spot on the lawn that must have slid off the roof or something.
ANYway, the best part of all this moisture is…
what it does to our mountains.
Oooooh.
Not bad for nearly June–right?
Sincerely, I know what Memorial Day is all about. I do. We ALWAYS take flowers to our sweet family at the cemeteries, whether or not they were Veterans and even though none of them died in a war. This year we did it on Saturday before actual Memorial Day. I forgot to take pictures. Sorry.
We did, however have a lovely barbecue so that we could just…you know…play.
We’re pretty good at that play stuff.
New to our game repertoire was a corn hole set. It works well for a bit but then the littles wanted to wear it on their backs like a hero cape and run around the yard saving people. Slightly scary.
There was a soccer ball flying throughout the evening…
because pretty much everyone who is anyone (the kids, anyway) have played or are playing or will be playing– soccer.
So it was just a natural thing for all of them to see a ball and kick it!!
Someone brought a sticky target game…
that was also a hit. No pun intended.
Some of the kids created their own games or traded Pokemon cards.
We had hair braiding and chalk painting…
…hanging inside the monkey bar thingy…
and lighting charcoal snakes!! I love those!
Also new to our game day was an extra large Connect Four.
Even the little kids played with it…
when the big kids were done–of course!!
There was, of course the fabulous barbecue food–but I didn’t pay too much attention to that–picture wise because….well, because…
eating takes two hands.
Heh, heh.
Happy Memorial Day everyone!!!
Hobbes can’t figure out why the kid is INSIDE and he…is not.
Haha. I don’t feel too bad because we have a cat door that he is welcome to use at ANY time.
Silly rabbit.
I seem to be having a Beatrix Potter “thing” these days.
First, we watched the movie “Miss Potter” for the millionth time.
Can’t get enough of that one.
Then Jillian visited the Potter museum and brought back some beautiful treasures from the Lake District in England.
Then there are all the magical books that make my heart sooo happy.
I remember working at the bookstore when I was just a kid and dreaming of owning the whole World of Peter Rabbit boxed set…someday…
… someday.
Heh, heh.
