The One With the Brown Family Thanksgiving

 

 

 

Last night, we held our annual Brown Thanksgiving at our house. After a hiatus for a few years, we brought it back last year. It was a nice, and after a couple rough years, sentimental time.

 

Yesterday, brought more of the same. I learned how to make the Brown family stuffing - which is one of my favorite meals of all time. We did a quick set up (well, quick for us is 5 hours of work). Kiff helped a lot and Bri did a little (but she had winter guard practice and dance).

 

It was a nice afternoon. We had some great turkey (thanks Emmie), squash, potatoes, stuffing, and so on. We had even better conversation and a chance to catch up...which is always nice.

 

All and all, a great Brown family Thanksgiving.

Summer Vacation Day Nine: The One With Bri's Party

 

 

Because it has been a wild year, it has been almost impossible to have parties the way we want. However, this Sunday we tried to do a party in a fun sorta way. We had a mini get together to honor Bri's birthday (which was 6 weeks ago) and Bri's moving on.

 

We had everyone in our backyard for  a couple of hours. It was weird because we realized it was going to be hot and we could not have everyone. It was also the first big get together without Mom Number Two....which was so strange.

 
We opened up the pool and made the grounds like nice...which was actually great to see. And we had lawn chess out, as well as Corn Hole. 

 

It was a great mini-event and one that reminded us of what it would be like to have more of them soon.

Summer Vacation Day Eight: The One With The Eighth Grade End to Softball

 

 

On Saturday, we bid a final farewell to DGS with the annual wrap up "gala." Normally, this would have been done at the Yacht Club with a formal party. However, that was not possible this year. So we were all able to enjoy a Softball Party at Tiggies, which was fun.

 

We got a chance to send Bri on a Farewell. She got flowers as a retiring 8th grader and a photo with the entire group, which was AWESOME! And we got some nice pictures.

 

Thank you DGS for a wonderful career.