Mike, Gina, Brenna, Savanna, and Dillon Come To See Me

Apex, NC.
55 deg. Mostly cloudy, N. wind @ 7 mph.
Forecast today = high temp. 68 deg. becoming mostly sunny, NW wind @ 10 to 15 mph.

First of all, I'd like to wish all of you mothers out there a "Happy Mother's Day"!!!!

Jim and Linda did a little cleaning inside of me yesterday morning in preparation for Mike, Gina, Brenna, Savanna, and Dillon coming in the afternoon. The planned dinner was to be a simple meal of Sloppy Joe's, squash, chips, raw vegetables, and drinks, so there was not a real lot of preparation that Linda needed to do.

While Linda was doing inside things, Jim was outside putting down the patio mat, getting out lawn chairs, and cleaning up the picnic table.

I was a little after 3:00 when they pulled up with their van and Mike and the 2 girls got out. What happened to Gina and Dillon, you ask? Well, Dillon fell asleep on the way over here so rather than wake him up and have him be fussy, Gina sat in the car with him while he snoozed for awhile.

While he was sleeping, Mike, and the girls play with a ball they had brought along, and sat under my awning and talked with Jim and Linda.

Jim did manage to remember to use his camera yesterday, so I've got some photos to share with you. :-) This first one is of Brenna,

This next one is Savanna

Dillon

Gina

and Mike

After Dillon woke up, everyone helped carry food out of me and to the picnic table and then everyone sat down and had a very nice meal. The girls and Dillon don't much like Sloppy Joe's, so Mike nuked a couple hot dogs in my microwave for them.

After dinner, Linda was surprised with a Mother's Day gift.

You see, Jim and Linda won't be seeing them today because they have prior commitments. So, they brought her a box of sugar free candy and a card out here and wished Linda a happy Mother's Day, a day early.

What a nicer thing for them to do. It rally made Linda's day. :-).

Did you know that in May of 1908 that the 1st Mother's Day was observed,? Then by the late 1920's Mother's Day became one of this countries most prominent holidays.