Overcast, Drizzle, and Cool

Bissells and Davis's Arrive

The Girls

Shucking corn

Toweling Up

Dinner

Evie and Her Girls

Evie and Three of her Girls

6:40

Early morning with the guys, my son Tom, two son in laws, Drew and Ramiro, as we all are sitting on the front porch, clued to our Macs or IPADs, watching some of the Olympics live, talking about cycling, all kinds of guy things.  Evie and Beth are in the living room, sequestered from the porch a la Islam, and Halle is the only grandchild up at this hour.  It's 68 degrees, with rain shower forecast for part of the day, but right now, it feels delicious to sit on our front porch, enjoy the morning breeze, the bird songs, and knowing the entire family is here for a week.

Yesterday was spent, like the previous five days, getting for the arrival of Jill and Tom' family.  Evie and I went off to Sam's and Wegman's, buying our both stores, bankrupting me, as we are now ready for only the next four days.  While we shopped, Beth cooked and made the beds, getting ready for the families.  Then, we relaxed some in the afternoon, though relaxing for Evie is cutting the lawn and getting a few things ready for dinner.  Tyler did work on his college essay some, Mitch and Marisa fished, wasting time, waiting for their cousins.

Both families arrived around 5:00, and it was semi chaos from that point on, the girls wild and happy to be with each other, rushing from the outdoors, to their bedroom, getting it set up for the week to their liking, putting their clothes in dressers, deciding who sleeps where on the floor, so that sisters are not next to each other.  Then, it was out to the lake for an hour, playing hide and go seek and wipe out on the inflatables, as the adults sat on the porch, drank beer, and caught up.  Most had not seen my son Tom's family since last summer, as they live in Kansas City.

Around 7:00, we had dinner, two casseroles of baked ziti, an Evie speciality, with corn, garlic bread and salad, brownies and ice cream for dessert.  We then played a mega game of SPUD for about a half an hour and as usual, the kids picked on my daughter Jill, always calling her number.  We went inside about 9:00 to watch the terrible opening of the Olympic Games from London and the adults slowly disappeared to their bedrooms, tired from the day but not the grand children, the girls up until at least 11:00, giggling and carousing in their bed, as Evie tried to settle them down. Rami arrived from NYC about 11:00 for the weekend, so all the family is here.  Not till Evie and I went to bed at 11:15 did the girls go to sleep.  The boys stayed up watching TV and I have no idea what time they went to bed.  All are still asleep in the TV room so I don't expect to see them until 10:00 or later, though Mitchell is already up.