Family Reunions

They're exciting, but a little scary at times. I was immediately taken back to my younger days as we drove down the hot, country road towards my mother's home town.

The 70's "Fly girls" remember the pouches?

It's been about 5-7 years since I've last been to one, and I have to admit, I was a little hesitant about walking up on "the porch". Aunt Mags house, (the matriarch of the family) was the gathering place for the first day of the reunion.

Seeing familiar faces and meeting new ones soon took away the timidity and warm embraces followed.

The fish fry and fellowship was great and of course, gotta play Bid Whist!

It was encouraging to see Saturday's event lead by the younger generation. They did great with the program, preparing and serving the food, and I really loved meeting family attending for the first time

Laughing it up with my "cuzin's" There's just something peaceful about porch dwelling...

Capped off with an awesome fellowship Sunday with praise, worship, and a mighty word from God.

Here's a digi page I've done giving the "Golden Girls" their due. They are beautiful, seasoned, and full of fire...let me tell you!!!

I'm glad I went, and I'm sure I won't let time keep me away again!

Until then...Let FAMILY Inspire You!

Here we go...again!

Am I crazy or what? (who said yes?!) You must know me well cause I'm just returning from a 14 hour drive to Jersey, and packing up to drive to North Carolina this coming weekend! Family reunion. Been some time and I'm kinda excited. Haven't travelled in years and it sort of feels like when you haven't had your favorite dessert in awhile and you gorge out on it. So I'm calling' this "Gor-avel Time"!

We had a great first Gor-avel adventure:


The sleepy heads slept



Sheka's Bridal Shower was a great success:

The food was AWESOME!



Mellow prepared a dessert room, can u believe it? A DESSERT ROOM!!!!


Chocolate everywhere!!! We couldn't concentrate on playing games what for eating goodies.




I don't remember anything after that except laughing...a lot....really hard...what a rush!


And most of all, the Bride to Be was truly blessed (even though most of the gifts were for the groom...he's the cook!)



Success to the hostess, my incredibly talented sister Mellow Mel. She did an awesome job!
...a little stressed maybe, but talented!



Our time on the Ocean City and Atlantic City boardwalks was fun, even though it was chilly. (upper 70's)




Even Pops dog YaYa had a great time!



And I ate Tony's pizza & subs and Rita's Gelati's almost every day. Can you say 20 POUNDS!!!??

Once August comes and the wedding is finished and all this Gor-avel is over I can finally purge my photos into an album! Then I'll take a good "relaxative" to get this all outta my system! ;) Until then...

Let Life Inspire YOU!