It Started With a Pitch ~ Part II

 

The Friday night Gator baseball game

morphed into a Saturday late afternoon

bar-b-que

when it was realized that most

of the Nolan fans were staying at the

same G-ville complex for the night.

 

So after a morning of the

Grogans searching for sharks' teeth

in a creek in the middle of the state,

they found 151...wow!,

and

my girls and I having
 an early lunch at

,

The Red Onion,

we gathered poolside!

 

 

 

First of all,

let me say

"Thank you, Steven"

for laboring over a what seemed to be a

1' square grill

to feed so many!!!...

 

 

 

 

You did a great job!

 

 

Times like this don't happen nearly enough for me,

and when they do,

 

well, you know how the commercial goes...

 

PRICELESS!

 

~~~

 

now,

Here is a

pictorial story

of our evening...

 

 

Steven and Peter shooting the breeze



 

 

 

 

 

 

An aunt and a nephew       ....and....         A pair of cousins

 

Gearing up to brave the cold water

 

 

 

A son tempting fate

 

 

 

while another son learns trust...while having fun

 

 

 

 After jumps...rest time

 

 

Sweet Landon...not as cooperative for picture time as the night before...lol

 

 

 

"...and then on the eighteenth hole, I had a birdie!"

 

 

 

Baby sharing going on

 

 

 

Cousins...best friends

 

 

 

A Grampy to all

 

 

 

Next pictures of Julie... she'll be holding her little one!

 

 

 

(Owen stole my heart this night... when asked if he would hold Livia during

this pose, he answered with an amazed "Yes!"  ...he was so honored to be trusted

with holding the littlest one!...and he had to hold her for awhile during a

series of shots before hitting on this sweet pose.  Good job, Owen! )

 

 

 

 “You can go through life and make new friends every year

- every month practically -

but there was never any substitute

 for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years.

Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another

with hoops of steel.”

                           ― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

 

 

What a lovely family

to be bound to!