Time Flies

Time flies by - it doesn't seem possible that it's been 5 days since I last posted. Friday night Sarah and Eric came over for an evening of fellowship. We had grilled Italian sausage sandwiches for dinner. They were really good! We then settled in for an evening of scrapbooking. Sarah was working on laying out her Discovery Cove pictures and I worked on cropping mine. They left about midnight.

Saturday Rick, Csilla and the girls got here about 1:00. The girls wanted to go in the pool right away, so lunch was on hold. They swam and played until about 2:00 and then declared "we're hungry!" We grilled hot dogs and ate outside on the patio. After lunch, we came in the house and the girls played until about 4:30 when they decided they wanted to go back in the pool again where they played until about 7:00. We grilled Italian sausages again for dinner and enjoyed them just as much as we had Friday night. We had cake and ice cream for dessert. We were celebrating Rick and Csilla's anniversary, Csilla's birthday, Ashley's birthday and our anniversary.

Sunday we got up about 8:30 and since Rick and Csilla planned on leaving about 10:00, we skipped church and Sunday school. Rick, Csilla and the girls spent about an hour in the pool and then came in to a breakfast of Swedish pancakes. They left about 10:30. I cleaned the kitchen up, washed the sheets and towels from the weekend and then collapsed for a Sunday afternoon nap.

Monday, we went up to Palm Harbor to an awesome scrapbook store which is having a sale - 40% off everything! They also added the incentive of 50% off the most expensive item that you buy.

Today was a busy, but rewarding day. It started this morning with the scrapbook demonstration at the senior center. Sarah joined me there and it was wonderful to have her there. Because of her being there, we were able to answer twice as many questions. We had lots of good questions and wonderful reactions to my heritage album as well as our other albums we had brought along. Almost everyone who was there (over 60 people)said they had boxes of unidentified pictures. I stressed to them the importance of writing on the back of the pictures (in pencil) who, what, where, why and when of the pictures. I told them of the difficulty we had in identifying the pictures of Dan's family since everyone who could identify people in the pictures was gone. The activities director of the senior center said she had put the announcement about the crop night at church Friday night in their bulletin. If there is enough interest, we'll hold a crop the same day as the crop at church (the first Friday of the month). I can do the senior center in the afternoon and church at night. The senior center is indirectly affiliated with Bethel and is only 1/4 mile away.

After our time with the seniors, we headed out for haircuts and then headed to St. Pete to another scrapbook store. Quickutz had released their newest product today and I wanted to see it demonstrated. I picked up a few items and then we headed home.

Tomorrow is the 4th. We have nothing special planned - just a quiet day for a change - we had our celebration on the weekend. Thursday, we'll take Aunti Vi shopping. We don't have Bible study this week since so many are going to be gone. I was willing to have Bible study, but the group wanted to postpone and end a week later (July 26th).

Friday night is the monthly crop night at church. Since we don't have a sign-up sheet, I don't know how many will be there. But I will enjoy the evening no matter what!

Saturday is our anniversary - if the weather is okay, we're going to rent a boat and spend the day boating on the Manatee River. If the weather is dicey, we have several back-up ideas (going to the sponge docks in Tarpon Springs, going snorkeling at Egmont Key).

It's almost midnight, so I will close for now.