Hoppy Easter!

Because I'll be traveling on Easter Sunday, we had our celebration on Saturday.  Everyone who is anyone was here with us!  Well.... ok, my siblings, four of my nephews plus my best friend since sixth grade!  We had the traditional ham, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, all the favs, and it was delish!  We had some champagne before dinner, wine with dinner, and after dinner drinks were had by some of them, too :)




The nephews are grown up, big enough to help... those sixteen foot boards we brought home on Thursday, the boys put up on the fence today to make it a little sturdier.  Yes, it worked!  Here's Jake on the ladder, wielding the tools.  My brother David handing up supplies.  I know the folks are really happy to have this little project behind them, and so thankful for the help from their grandson!

Here I am with Melanie.  We've been friends now since we were 12.   If you do Melanie Math, that means 30 years.  hahahah  If you do "real" math, its 43 years! That's a long time, and has generated a lot of great memories!







At the end of the day, she and I took a short little walk to Bowers Park, one of the many places we frequented .... some of it has changed, some of it remains the same.  I'm in awe of the trees that are still standing, they're so big and stately --

and if they could talk???

Ohhh the stories they could tell!!!  

*laughs*