Conversation with Anna!!!

We smoked a turkey breast and some ribs Saturday afternoon/evening and invited my mom and sister out for lunch on Sunday. We had sat down to get ready to eat and I had fixed baked potatoes to go along with it and was fixing Anna's plate and had grabbed my knife to cut her potato...she jumped up from her chair and said "I am going to go get my knife." (She has a kitchen with pretend food and dishes) Before I could say anything I could hear her sorting through the basket looking for it and she came back with it and the conversation went like this:

A: I have my knife also...I can cut up yours for you!
M: Thank you but I can get it...
A: I can help!!!
M: No, that is really ok! I can get it...I don't know where your knife has been!
(with out missing a beat)
A: It has been in my kitchen!!!

and of course everyone started busting up and Anna just sat there and stared at us all like we were all crazy and were did I think her knife had been...lol!!!

After lunch we cleaned up the mess and sat around and talked for awhile,  played catch with a big ball, and ponies while Bob went with a friend to see if they could pull out a friend that had got stuck. After awhile my mom left and my sister was sticking around to go to a friends Super Bowl Party that evening that actually only lives a couple of miles from us, so that she wouldn't have to drive the 30 min. or so back at here. We were invited to go also but decided with the yucky weather that they were calling for just to stay home because Bob may have to go work that night...which he did.

So while we were waiting we decided to go see how bad they were stuck and watch "all the excitement" and then came home and watched the game...mainly for the commercials and I worked on some projects. One being Anna's B-day invitations!

Hope everyone had a good weekend and has a good week! Are Monday hasn't started out to well...

Happy New Year's Eve!!!

We are suppose to go to some friends tonight, but Anna woke up with a little bit of a cough and runny nose yesterday morning so plans are still up in the air. I started immediately on the medicine...she has never ran a fever or anything and seems to be feeling fine this morning other than the occasional cough and "my nose is running out" comment. I think it is just allergies but I don't want to be the parent that my child got the other kids sick especially with it being close to school starting back up. Luckily, if we do end up going these friends live just a couple of miles from us so we won't have to worry about traveling far and dealing with everyone being out on the roads.
So...whatever your plans are I hope everyone has a Happy New Year and most importantly is SAFE!!!

L/O Family Reunion 2009

October 9-11, 2009 was the family reunion for my Bob 's mom side of the family! It was the first reunion in about 17 years I am told. A little info: Bob's mom passed away in 1997 of breast cancer, which is who are daughter is named after! Well...her first name and her middle name is after me and my great-grandma! We had names decided from the very beginning whether it was a boy or a girl...sometime I will have to explain that and how Bob and I started dating, even though we went to school together!

OK back to the point of this post...sorry! Bob's grandma passed away in 2006 and Bob's aunt passed away just a few months ago. With the passing of Bob's mom and aunt it leaves 1 sister and 2 brothers and unfortunately it took a funeral for me to meet one of his uncles and some more extended family and for Bob's family to see each other after several several years. But that day brought about the decision to have a family reunion that got scheduled and held in a few short months by one of my sister-in-laws!!!


We rented a house in the town that we live...this house was a doctors house located outside of town in the country on several acres and a pond and when it sold the people that bought it turned it into a "Lodge" and rent it out for events! It worked out very well because it is huge and has a very open floor plan and we had several coming from out of town and this gave more time for visiting and hanging out together verses everyone having to rent hotel rooms and be split up! It has like 4 or 5 rooms but with all the open room we could very well put down air mattresses if needed...which they supply for a little extra fee! Talking about things they supply that are nice and we didn't have to worry about having to rent was table and chairs (had enough tables and chairs set up for like 75-100 people and there were still more in the storage room if that gives you a clue how much they supply) and pretty much anything we could think of...it is set up just like a house with all your appliances including washer and dryer and any kitchen utensil you could possibly need for a weekend! They also provide eggs, bacon, and milk for the weekend! They also had a ping pong table downstairs for the kids to play! I believe we ended up having like 70 some people show up. We had planned on about 100 some but with work, illness going around, and other last minute obligations I think we had a really great turn out!!!


Friday night we went down to the Lodge and we had pizza and visited with the family that had arrived from Texas...we had decided not to stay at the "Lodge" because we didn't live to far away and we had some other events that we were trying to fit in also...busy weekend!!! Saturday was the main get together at noon with a potluck dinner consisting of everyone bringing a main and a side and I think it worked out really well and there was more than enough food...I brought BBQ meatballs and a family favorite PePe Salad, or I have also heard it called frog eye salad! Saturday night we just had leftovers and I had brought loaves of bread for Sandwich stuff for anyone that was still there. Then on Sunday morning we got up went to church and then went back out and did some more visiting, had some more leftovers, said goodbye to everyone that was traveling back to Texas, cleaned everything up, and then came home caught the end of the KC Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys game and just relaxed after a long but enjoyable weekend...by the way the Cowboys won in overtime...Go Cowboys!!!


Here are a few pictures...didn't get very many I kinda forgot...to busy chatting!!!