Thursday morning my mother and I did our annual Decoration Day tradition of buying flowers, planting them at the cemetery on my maternal grandparent's and aunt's graves, then going to lunch. It's really kind of a nice tradition that I enjoy with my mother each year. This was a hot one, though, and I thought Mom was going to pass out.
Austin has a four day weekend off from work, so he and his gang came up Thursday afternoon and are staying until tomorrow. Our long weekend has been action packed so far. Starting with the boys being able to swim in the lake for the first time this season. Of course, I don't allow them near the lake alone and without life jackets. And for Landen, his idea of swimming is walking into the water only up to his knees.
Grandpa Bobby gave Kayak rides.
Logan loves to be thrown off the dock.
I sit and watch, with a glass of Riesling, and take pictures from my reclining lounge chair. My lake and fire pit seating area has a pink and blue theme this year with only pink and blue flowers. I worked on that some more yesterday afternoon.
In the meantime, Austin and Melissa met with a real estate agent to list their old house. We've had this house sold once already, then turned down by the City zoning board, then back and forth with lawyers, and it's a long story. Suffice it to say, they are now listing it with an agent because we're all sick of dealing with it on our own. Then they went to look at new cars because they need a bigger vehicle that can handle 5 people and 2 baby seats and a toddler booster seat comfortably. Baby #3 will be here end of June/first of July and this is now a necessity.
This morning we awoke to a beautiful morning. I made french toast and fruit salad and we had breakfast outside on the deck. Ohhh, it was so nice!
Then to top off the afternoon, Big G.G.'s (Great Grandpa, my dad) boat was delivered to our dock today. The boys get so excited every year when the boat comes back from winter storage.
Austin and Melissa purchased the Chevy Tahoe they looked at last night and went to pick it up and bring home Chinese carry out for dinner. I've been cooking almost non-stop and refuse to cook on a Friday night.
Tomorrow's plans include a bar-b-que and boat rides. I just finished making the potato salad and it tastes really good, if I do say so myself. Delish!! It's called Steakhouse Potato Salad. I'll post it shortly. We're hoping my Grandpa will want to leave the nursing home for the afternoon to join us. We think he'll feel comfortable being here at my house. He just doesn't like having to get dressed up and going to a restaurant. He gets very confused and disoriented.
I wish a Happy Memorial Weekend to all as we remember our loved ones that have passed on ( I think of them often) and enjoy the weekend with our loved ones still here.
