With the arrival of Yvonne and Chris and their families on Friday late afternoon, the festivities began. Everyone looked so good, and it was so much fun to welcome them here. The "young set" were all eager to get into the pool in spite of a light drizzle, so we all headed over to the pool since there was no lightening nor thunder. PTL!! The kids had a blast swimming and worked up a good appetite for supper. Tim and Yvonne and Chris and Bonnie bought pizza, and we all ate over at Brian's and Amy's. With pizza, bread sticks, chips, desserts and drinks, we had a feast!! The kids swam some more after dinner.
Alex (12) and Alyson (11) spent Friday night over at Amy's with her kids. Emily "tried" but couldn't make it when it came time to go to bed. It was neat that Amy's kids got better acquainted with their 2nd cousins from Alabama.
On Saturday morning, we were set to all have brunch at our house at 8:00 a.m. It was a tad later by the time I got it all on the table, but we ate and had a good time with the 15 of us. We knew that Bill (working) and Larry (mother-in-law just out of the hospital) couldn't come, but we were holding out hope against hope that Mike, Diane, and their crew would be able to join us. During breakfast, Diane called to say that Mike's mother was having to be admitted to the hospital with her congestive heart failure issues and that they would not be able to come as was hoped. We were sorry to hear about Mike's mother's heart condition and totally understood their constraints.
Darlene, Leslie, and Leslie's husband Rob arrived at just moments before 12:00 noon. We had hugs and greetings all around and then it was lunchtime. Our son-in-law Brian had cooked Boston Butts in crock pots all night long and the pulled it for our "pulled pork sandwiches." Amy also made her famous baked beans. I made "hot dog" macaroni salad and we had shrimp salad as well. Each family contributed chips, drinks, and desserts for the meal. We had PLENTY of good food to eat!!!
It poured down rain during the afternoon and was still raining when everyone took off. Darlene, Leslie and Rob were going to drive through Gulf Shores and catch dinner there. Tim, Yvonne, Emily, Chris, Bonnie, Alex, and Alyson all loaded up and drove out to the beach and went shopping, had dinner, etc. They returned a little after 9:00 p.m. I stayed up talking to them until about 10:30, and then I had to go to bed. Bonnie and Von got the kids down (they stayed here at our house on Saturday night), and then I think the men stayed up to watch the NASCAR race with Richard.
We all got up early on Sunday morning. I fixed breakfast for our house-family and then they loaded up to head off. Brian, Amy and the kids came over for hugs and good-byes. It was a fabulous time with those of our family who were able to make the trip down. We enjoyed hosting it and look forward to our December reunion in T-Town.
Here is the URL for the Kodak Album of pics made on the Friday night and then on Saturday, the main reunion day:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=nhewoo3.22axxfz7&x=0&y=-q3migi&localeid=en_US
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This is the URL for the Kodak album I made of Tim, Yvonne, Emily, Chris, Bonnie, Alex and Alyson leaving this morning:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=nhewoo3.6ikd8xvn&x=0&y=-9z5amt&localeid=en_US
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