Family Gatherings!

This has been a great weekend filled with MANY family gatherings!!

It started yesterday in Quadville when Summer, Sabrina and Raynie came over to see Amber and Mike's new house! I thought Summer expressed it well when she said, "The quads will enjoy growing up here!"

Sabrina let Logan don her sunglasses!

See Amber's newly repainted dining room light in the background?

As handy as I am with my dandy little red camera - I did NOT get pictures of Raynie playing with the babies. My battery had died and was on the charger.....but trust me - they were all adorable!

We moved the party to our house where Raynie rode the big horse!

I love her precious little feet!

She was admiring my dangle earrings and said they were 'soft.'

These actually belonged to Raynie's GREAT grandmother!

They are my very favorite pair.....but I told her when she is old enough SHE could have them.

I think MiMi (Sabrina's mother) would be pleased.

They look pretty good on her!

Thursday was National Mojito Day and Sabrina brought all the ingredients for her home made version!

Delicious!!!

We rounded out the evening with a dip in the pool......my NEIGHBOR'S pool!!

A perfect ending to a GREAT July Saturday!!

This morning we woke up to COOL temps and RAIN!

Who would have THOUGHT??? In TEXAS and in JULY???

What a blessing!! We sat in the gazebo enjoying our morning coffee before going to church.

As soon as we got home Robert and I started making batch after batch of Popcorn Crunch!

We tried TWO batches using the Whirley Popper.....and we burned both batches!

I resorted to the old fashioned recipe......

but even THAT didn't turn out with this wet weather!

We headed to Fort Worth for a Family Gathering with limp popcorn!

This is a funny picture!! Louis Dean was so impressed with Nita's new sofa! Deanie got one first, then Nita got one.....we get ours on Wednesday! LD was pushing the power button to raise the footrest. The sofa has TWO cushions so it's actually like TWO recliners. Only there were THREE people sitting on it! This beautiful lady is Lily and she is ever gracious.....even as HALF of her section began to rise. She just scooted over towards Louis Dean! You can tell we all had so much fun!!

Nita - always beautiful and smiling!

Who KNOWS what Louis Dean was saying??

We had bragged and bragged to Robert about how funny my brother is!!!

He did not disappoint us!! We  LOVE Lonnie!!!

AND we love Michele - his lovely wife!

Robert seemed to really enjoy the visit. Nita's husband was showing him some of his dinosaur artifacts.

Their house has museum quality collections!

I absolutely LOVE Family Gatherings!

Everyone seems to have fancy cell phones these days!

I am getting one Tuesday!!! A real 'grown up' phone!

This picture makes me smile.

Guy talk.

As I was going through my pics from this afternoon I had a surprise from Deanie!!

I posted it on my Facebook album and SO many people 'liked' it I decided to add it here as well!

She is so cute!!!

Mother was in her element! ALL mothers enjoy having a lot of family around chatting and laughing together!

My mother, Nita and her handsome son, Bill!!

His visit sparked this social afternoon.

We have a budding artist in the family!!!

Haley painted this beautiful canvas!

I am so impressed with her work!! Hopefully she will continue and share many more projects with us.

Here is the beautiful artist holding her painting with a proud great grandmother in the background!

I don't know how we could have packed any more into this weekend than we did!

The house is still open with the attic fan on as I write. IMAGINE! Texas in July and cool enough to keep our doors open to the fresh air!! What a GIFT! Thank you, Lord!!!