Sunday Evening and Monday

The house Sunday evening was full once again with family and the smell of roast pork, kielbasa and Nathan hot dogs that filled the air along with sauerkraut, smashed 'taters, salad and a fresh baked apple pie. What a feast and all in honor of Fathers Day. We had a great time playing with the Ava and Samuel, however we did miss Bobby, Jill and Annsley as other commitments kept them away.

Monday morning found us after our quiet times and bowl of oatmeal getting ready to head over to Valrico to have lunch with our friends Jerry and Becky. Wow do they ever have a beautiful place and he is a builder and contractor and did a hands on job with their home and pool designed for water volleyball. The lunch was dewisheous(as Annsley calls it) and afterwards we bored them with some of our photo albums of N.C. and family(letting our lunch settle)before we jumped in their pool. We had a good hour of volleyball play with lots of rally's, laughter and some of us did that without getting their mascara wet, guess who?? We had a super time and were surprised at how fast 4 hours slipped away. This is a must do again especially the volleyball rematch as we(Nancy and I) won in a close match.

Afterwards we headed out to Bob's and Nancy went with Bob and Annsley to their local pool while Jerry and I headed down to Sun City for some pickle ball on some recently built outside pickle ball courts that are top of the line at Valencia Gardens, Wow these are the best I've ever seen and the ambiance is first class. Jerry and I played for about an hour in the 93 degree temp's yet there was some cloud cover. It was only Jerry's second time to play and I see some love for the game as well as some potential to be reckoned with as he will only get better. Lots of fun and we both were sporting wet shirts afterwards. He dropped me off at Bob's which was close by.

We spent the rest of the evening playing with Annsley and eventually Jill's folks, Brian and Susan as well as most pregnant Laura(Jill's sister) along with husband Josh and then Amy, Tyler, Ava and Samuel arrived for another big family dinner. Bob created this masterpiece meat ball(ground his own meats) with a marinara sauce over pasta, best I've ever eaten along with a salad, bread and of course homemade pies and cobbler with vanilla ice cream on top. We stayed, played, laughed and talked about kids, grand kids and newbies to be born and related experiences for the new parents(Josh and Laura) to look forward too. Time just flew by and before you knew it, it was 9 PM but the kids were going strong. Anyhow some of us had to work the next day so we headed out for home.

It was great to have both of our kids and their kids together and of course the food was sumptuous and we are planning another luncheon on Friday with a get together for the grand babies to play and of course for us to eat before we get ready to head back to the mountains on Sunday. Later