IT WAS WONDERFUL 9-25-12

Well, the BIG REUNION has come and gone.

What more can I say other than we had a wonderful time.    It is hard to describe the emotions of seeing people that we had not seen in 50 years and having a great time learning all about what had been happening in our lives.

We started out with a gathering on Friday night at the Kirbo Center in Bainbridge Georgia meeting and greeting old friends.   Saturday around 10 am we gathered at the Bainbridge Marina and just did some more visiting and had a wonderful lunch of pulled pork barbeque , chips, and peach cobbler.   Of course we had lots of SWEET TEA.  Saturday night we had another gathering at the Kirbo Center and the program was to honor all our deceased class members, former teachers,and just visit and eat of course.   We were blessed to have 61 class members present plus spouses, some friends from other classes and also 4 of our high school teachers,   Mrs. Forrester, Mrs. Sullivan and Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler.   Sunday morning some of us met for breakfast before saying goodbye until the next time which I am sure won't be too long.

Monday Larry and I left Bainbridge and traveled to Greer SC and are visiting with Deb and Bill Dorris for a few days before returning to Virginia for a campout weekend with the Old Dominion Cardinals . Then on Sunday we will get back home after 6 weeks of traveling, visiting, eating and more eating.

Pictures to come.  

Sept 10, 2012 thru Sept 18, 2012

Just a quick catch up for those that are following us.

We left Indianapolis on Monday 9/10 and had an uneventful day and spent the night in Franklin Tennessee at  Wal Mart.   Tuesday we traveled on to Birmingham , Al and visited until Thursday with our friends, Dick and Angie Pace, who we met 12 years ago in Florida.   We had not seen them in about 3 years.   Angie and I did some shopping and Dick and Larry did what they do best, PEOPLE WATCH.
Thursday we traveled on down in Alabama, stopped in Prattville, Al to visit with a high school friend of Larry's, Melvin Ehrlich and then on to Dothan, Al.    Had dinner with Janet and Austin Phillips ( he and I knew each other in Bainbridge) and then on Friday morning had breakfast with Stanley Sanford and his wife, Robbie.   Larry and I went to school with Stanley.

Now we are in Bainbridge, Ga. awaiting my 50th high school reunion this weekend.  I am working with Ann Reynolds to get everything in order for us to start having a lot of fun on Friday night.  It will be a good weekend.

At the present time, Larry had gone to get fresh green peanuts to BOIL.

Oh I forgot on Saturday we attended a family reunion for Larry's grandmother Ollie Brookins Hastead's family and of course ate too much.

More later,


Mem

Sept 3 2012 thru Sept 9, 2012

Another BUSY week in Indianapolis.   I think as of today Larry and I have finished all but a couple of the projects that Ally had for us including doing the taxi school runs most of the time and other kid responsibilities.    We try to give her a little break when she has to go somewhere without having to take all four with her.
Thursday we did take time for ourselves so that we could SPEND some money.   Larry took the bus to get "new shoes".   Our tires were needing to be replaced so we went and got 6 new shoes and I said to Larry, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.    We did this 6 years ago and decided it was time to do it again to be safe.
Yesterday we had 3 soccer games with Kate and Bella. Kate had 2 games and Bella 1.   Larry and I then took Kate to lunch as she had been a great help with cleaning the basement play area with me while Miss Bella sat and complained and did not help so she had to stay home.   She was unhappy and of course told me how unfair I was but when we got back she had gone down and cleaned up the basement which was a mess again from her having 2 little friends over last week.  Oh Doug is going to get his "due" with these 3 girls. 
Ally, Doug, Larry and I went out to dinner last night and had a good time.   It is nice to have a little adult time once in a while.
Today we have Noah's football game at 1:30 and then tomorrow morning we are heading SOUTH.   We will visit friends in Alabama and then to Georgia on Friday for a little over a week for the 50th Class Reunion.

Sunday August 26th thru Sunday Sept 2, 2012

We had a good time at the FMCA Convention in Indianapolis.  We were a little disappointed with the number of Vendors, not the usual group, but we still were able to spend a "little" money.  The nightly entertainment was good on Wednesday and Thursday nights but can't say that for Tuesday night. The Dutton Family from Branson, Ms. was really really good.  What a talented group of people.
Ally and Sophia came out to spend the day with us on Tuesday while the other 3 were in school.    Sophia( 14 months old) was absolutely the youngest person there. Ha Ha.  We enjoyed spending some quality time with Ally . 
On Friday we packed up and headed back to Ally's house for a week of projects.   Since Issac the hurricane or what is left of him is coming this way we plan to have time to get some inside projects done.   Ally always has things for us to do.    Larry is painting a wall with magnetic paint for her to be able to use for papers and etc.   She and I cleaned out 2 pantrys, medicine and spice cabinet, put away lots of clean clothes and Larry tried out her new steam mop on the kitchen floor.   When you have 4 kids and a dog plus 2 adults things do get DIRTY.
The weather doesn't look too good for today, Labor Day , so hopefully we will get some other things done.
We hope to get the kids pictures done at Sears so we might call and do that today.
Doug is going to Chicago on Tuesday so Larry will be doing the early morning school run on Wednesday.  We are also getting new tires on the motorhome so that will take up a day.
On Saturday we have 3 soccer games and then on Sunday afternoon Noah has his first football game of this season.   Busy, Busy!!!!!!


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