Remembering

Memorial Day 2011

It's another time that Picasa/Blogspot won't let me align left...or right...so guess I will just have let it center the lines! We have had a nice day. We finished up the food preparations over here this morning and Nathan fired up the grill over at their house and Kathy got the condiments ready and set the tables. All totaled we had 12 celebrate with a Memorial Day lunch with all the traditional trimmings...hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, baked beans, corn on the cob, macaroni and cheese, potato chips, watermelon, s'mores. Nathan and Kathy had an extra added to their brood...their niece from Knoxville who is Abigail's age. And, we numbered four since Erin and Alex are here. We ended up eating inside as Memorial Day ushered in summer-like temperatures...mid 90's before the end of the day and quite humid. The children did eat watermelon outside as witnessed by the above pictures. Esther got the largest piece (though several went back for another to try to match her amount!) and she really enjoyed it! Nathan made s'mores in the microwave (easier to do them in quantity in the microwave!). The top left picture shows the lineup for s'mores. Elijah at first just had a graham cracker and a marshmallow...but before the end of the feast he also experienced his first s'more...he found it messy and was almost more concerned over the mess than over the taste! Everyone enjoyed watermelon except for Alex so I put a picture of him enjoying his corn on the cob. We all came back home and had a lazy afternoon...I think all but Alex had a nap (Erin slept waaaaay too long...she probably won't sleep tonight. Alex finished a long book that he checked out of the library on Saturday. Woody went to Monday night prayer meeting at church. At the moment Woody, Erin and Alex are downstairs...Erin probably working on her computer and Woody and Alex probably watching a DVD. Erin is trying to transfer information from her laptop over to her new Mac plus she has several games that she has enjoyed playing on it (that is if Graham lets her! He loves one of the games on it!). It is an electronic age!!!! Was just downstairs and it's Alex on Erin's computer and Goosey and Erin watching the DVD...well, Alex is multi-tasking as he got up and turned up the TV because he couldn't hear when I was down there talking! The reason I went downstairs was because there was a secret knock on the front door (Graham). He had come over to get a cookie for his mother, father and himself as the others were heading to bed! Ahhhhhhhh to be the oldest!!! Good thing that they asked for some cookies when they did...I'm not sure that there would still be any tomorrow...the batch made the other day is about gone...food (especially the goodies) disappears more quickly when one has two teeneagers in the house!