This Weekend

This weekend we had a nice birthday celebration for my niece, Becky and her husband, Matt, who are here from South Carolina for a week in Kissimmee. Matt's mom and dad came, too. They are wonderful people and it was really nice getting to know them better. We really enjoyed our time with them. Nancy is a photographer and between all of them they helped me a little with my new camera and my phone and all the electronics that don't seem to do as advertised under my handling. Guess I will eventually have to read the instruction books but Nancy told me of one you can find in the book store for Nikon 90 like mine that is much more easily deciphered so I may try that. She takes beautiful photos with her Nikon that is not an SLR.

My brother Wayne and his wife, Yamelis; my brother Mike and his girlfriend, June and nephew, Michael came and we celebrated Michael's birthday, too. He is twenty-three and my niece, Marcy, turned 21. This is all very hard to accept! LOL

My daughter and her fiancé were supposed to be here but they are coming down to the wire with wedding, honeymoon things. They had their photo shoot on the beach on Sunday; put off until the last minute because they also have to pack and then work Monday and Tuesday before leaving on Wednesday to change their lives forever. J I am happy for them and I know their stress level must be way up there. My daughter will leave Miss Roney and return Mrs. Filipkowski. I won't see her until the party on the 18^th. That will really be exciting.

Bill grilled hamburgers out and we had birthday cake and ice cream. I think Matt was the only one that braved the cool pool that day but we had several enjoying the Jacuzzi heated to a nice temperature of 99.
Kudos to Bill for a wonderful cook out when I know he was fighting a really bad cold. He's still feeling bad today but he sure enjoyed yesterday.

We played Wii in the wee hours of the night and that got to be pretty heated with Michael taking the championship so many times that everyone started to gang up on him to beat him. It was the first time some of them had played Wii Bowling but now I think there will be several new games purchased after this rousing night of bowling.

Happy Birthday to all of you, Matt, Becky, Mary, Marcy, & Michael and Mike and Yamelis! I had not realized that we had so many March and April birthdays. Yamelis, who is from Venezuela has a good idea. She celebrates her April 22 birthday all month long. I tried that for my 60^th birthday and I have to say, that was REALLY a tiring month for me and I can imagine those that were reminded of my birthday all month long got pretty tired as well. LOL It's hard to celebrate a whole month but Yamelis says its tradition and she handles it well. LOL