Memories made on Memorial

We had a truly wonderful Memorial Day weekend.

We spent it in Kentucky with family and friends which reminded me of how blessed we are to have such joyful, peaceful lives. We just have so much.

We also celebrated Dandy's big milestone of retirement (Woo Hoo 41 years!) with a picnic in the park.

Sweet cousin Ella helping Lillianna color inside the lines.

ME: Everyone strike a fancy pose and say Cheese!

Ella, Daisy, & Leah: Ok. (strike fancy pose) CHEESE!

Lillianna: I DON'T WANT TO SAY CHEESE! (walk away.)

Still having fun!

Still striking fancy, beautiful pose.

Lillianna hadn't seen her cousins since Easter. Not too long but they were all so excited to see eachother and had so much fun together. They ran and giggled and ran and ran and talked and ran and giggled and ran. Now if we could just get sweet Bentley to join in there with them.

The picture above captures what we observed alot during the weekend. Miss Bossy Applesaucy...Miss Sassy Molassy...aka Miss Lillianna leading the pack or demanding to be the line leader of her cousins. Of course, I give much credit to the sweet cousins who were just being patient with their younger cousin. Still, it's so funny to observe her being bossy with others besides Bibby and well, me. She usually is too shy, too sheepish with others. Then again, she has ALWAYS known JUST what she wants..how, when, and where.

The next morning she woke up knowing she was going to be doing a lot of running with her cousins again so she ate...alot. Marsh Man made her a scrumptious breakfast and she was his buddy the rest of the day.


Inside, Cousins (and 3 weeks apart) Ellenie and Christopher had a real heart to heart about life...in diapers.

Christopher felt things were getting to dark (pun intended) so he told her his best joke.

Which Ellenie thought was so funny.

Then she taught him her "I'm so cute" face she uses to get extra kisses.

Back outside, after much running (see Lillianna's hair) the girls had lovely lunch.

Which ended with much giggling when Lillianna added ketchup to her juice (and drank it) and Ella put ice in Lillianna's ketchup on her plate. They laughed so hard.

I wish I could still laugh that hard at ketchup in my juice.

Then Ya-Ya came up with some Lollipop rings which were lip-smacking delicious.

(Right Daisy?)

Cheers to a great weekend! Can't wait to all be together again soon!