Saturday June 7 2008

Three Sisters

Gloria, Beverly, Sue

Diana, Lynn

Brent

My Niece Sue

Saturday was another good weather day. I had forgotten that some of us were supposed to meet at Mimi's for breakfast this morning. Debbie woke me up and I had to hurry to be ready when Beverly and Brent came to pick me up, although did have a little time to be outside while Debbie and Curtis set up the tables and chairs for the party. They had to wait until today because the sprinklers come on the yard in the night. It all started looking really nice. Debbie didn't go to breakfast but stayed to work at home. Her neighbors brought over the ice cream machine. We had to test that. She is the neighbor who was going to help, but had been helping someone in Boulder City renovate a house the day before and stayed there overnight. We think they came all the way back here to deliver the machine and went back to Boulder City to work some more. Guess they are always helping someone.

The restaurant where we went for breakfast is on our side of town so we didn't have to go far. The food was very good and we all had a nice visit. I don't know how long it's been now since I had seen my niece Sue. She is my older sister's daughter. Remember Barbara passed away about four years ago. Sue had moved to Kansas to be nearer to where her mom and older brother lived on his farm in Missouri, but now she had just moved back to California and is living in Napa where she is a psychologist at a prison there. She looks just like she did twenty years ago, very beautiful and petite. After breakfast Diana, Sue and Gloria went for a drive to Red Rock Canyon. Then they dropped Gloria off to see a friend of hers for a while and she came over here early to help us again.

Beautiful fresh sunflower centerpieces for each table were delivered. We sat up the food tables with maroon and yellow tablecloths (school colors). Somehow a special cake appeared. The catered barbecue food was delivered, and we got the rest of the food set out.

The weather couldn't have been more perfect. Guests soon began arriving, and there was a fairly big crowd of all kinds of friends. I enjoyed meeting them all. There was a couple I think Curtis told me had adopted and raised 17 kids. Tayler had lots of girlfriends there. They all look enough alike enough to be sisters. Jeremy was also there and he seemed very comfortable being the only guy in the crowd of girls. His parents came too. Curtis had a man come who was a juggler and fire eater! He was a surprise and a lot of fun. Tayler opened her gifts and cards. Diana and Gloria took Sue back to the airport.

Then time to clean it all up and get the food put away. Debbie gave a lot of it away, so not much was left to have to put away and use later. It seemed that everyone had a good time.