My "famous" pasta salad! The recipe for this is so easy it's ridiculous! Yet somehow everyone loves it!
We had a great turn out for our annual family and friends picnic. Some people were inside while others were out in the sun.
The food was delicious!
This cake was delicious! lol
Our children can't wait to get in class. Neither can their parents, or in our case grandparents! We have a ton of kids who's grandparents make sure they come to church on Sunday!
Nicki is the kid whisperer and candy keeper!
After church on Sunday we headed across the water to help my mom get settled into her "dorm" room for the next week. She's not going to college but she has been attending an annual Ministers and Music Directors Conference for the last few days. It's seems strange to be helping your mom/G`ma move into a dorm. All of my kids have gone to local colleges so they haven't had the dormitory experience!
Mom really put us to work.
Packet in hand!
Marc trying to look cool while toting a colorful bag!
The look on these two faces is priceless!!
Nicki trying to imagine where she would have put all her stuff! lol
Not feeling it at all! HAHA!
All settled in!
Mom picking up her music packet! She's the church director and secretary at my childhood church.
Marc is attending the same conference but the ministers sessions. He's not staying in the dorms. lol
Mom explaining her pkg is much larger this year.
All set!!
You have to have conference "stuff"!
After all that we deserved a great meal! Unfortunately Chili's didn't really provide it. My salad may look good but it was rather soggy. That just does not make for a great meal!
Even with all the activity this week and preparation for vacation I'm still working on wedding stuff ( just realized I say "stuff" a lot).
And speaking of stuff...my plan today is to to work on my packing post. I really want to video tape it but I know I won't have time to edit it so I'm thinking about just giving an over view now with pics and then do a video at the hotel. We shall see. In the meantime I hope everyone is having a blessed day! Talk later!
Ok, its taken me two days to get this thing to post from my phone! So I'm not sure if I will get a chance to talk about my packing until we get back home.
2 comments:
Seeing your salad reminds me that I need to make our famous curried shrimp salad for our annual Fathers Day BBQ this year!!
I love seeing annual family BBQ's my family doesn't seem to be much into that...which makes me sad but i can't force them so oh well.
Do you kids wish they'd experienced the dorm life for college or are they fine with it?
I think originally they all wanted the full college experience but now that they are older and have taken trips with some of their friends I think they are glad the only person they had to share a bathroom with has been their own siblings ( and even that is not always easy..lol).
I'm usually the planner for our family get togethers but this year I'm taking a break! If they want to plan something I'm all for it but I'm concentrating mostly on my little cousins wedding.
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