The Coots family festivities continued this past week, with a side excursion into some Brooks family festivities.
Johnny, Peg and Hannah came up on the 4th and John, Becky and Bailey followed on the 5th. We got together briefly at Doug's house on Friday night. Jordyn, Bailey and Hannah had fun playing together, while the rest of sat around the fire and visited. Bailey was quite amazed and awed by Jordyn's princess room! We don't call her Princess Jordyn for nothing!
Saturday was the 80th birthday surprise party for Daddy John Brooks. John said he had never had anything like that done for him before and he was shocked but happy! I hope he has many, many, many more!! We had a cookout out at the gun club (which had a pond for fishing and playground equipment for the kids) with the usual cook out food with a couple of exceptions.....one was a fried turtle/green peppers/onion concoction (barbarians! ewwww) and the other was a little something called Apple Pie. Not the kind you eat, but something you drink. It was enjoyed by most of us, including John (the younger) and Pete (one sip, but I made sure a picture was taken). Much bottle passing was done both before and after I left. Which just goes to show, when it comes to drinkin', the Coots constitution is much stronger than those biker dudes at the other end of the table. YEEE HAW!
Sunday was more gathering at Doug and Kathy's, with Ray, Lola, Amelia and Tony joining us. The kids again had fun running amok, and there was pizza eating and a fire. I think Jordyn really had fun playing with her cousins and we learned that Bailey is VERY dramatic and will most probably become an actress someday. In fact, she already sings and dances (if you can catch her at it)! Doug was amazed at how good Tony's memory is; he can remember things from years and years ago - however, he called Doug just about everything EXCEPT Doug, including Mark and Darrell. This, of course, amused me a lot.
Now it's Monday and I guess everybody's back at what everybody does. And so it goes for the Coots summer festivities!
(Sidenote: Mike was on vacation in Mexico and I hear tell he caught a really big fish while deep sea fishing. It apparently costs an ENORMOUS amount of money to have a plaster cast made of it, so Mike may just end up with a picture and a memory......ahhh, but what a memory!)
7 comments:
Love the commentary. you should post that pic of Pete on here. Now that would be amusing.
like i said in my blog, who are all these people your talking about? Anyway, I love your doing this. Talk to ya later
oh yeah, Robby's birthday in Jan 13th. I thought you'd want to know to fix it.
consider it fixed and welcome aboard!
it'd take me too long to explain who everyone is...ask your dad or someday i may do a family forest of trees.
I'm your Aunt Peggy's oldest and dearest.(you do know who your aunt peggy is don't you?)If not ask your Dad
UHH MICHELLE, YOU WOULD BE THE BIGGEST PAIN IN HER ASS! WE ALL KNOW THAT I AM MOM'S FAVORITE AND THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS ANY SENSE OUT OF HER CHILDREN.
yes, John. that would explain SOOO much about you. but i must differ on the only one with any sense part..your daddy always said you were dumber than a box of rocks (and he had the box of rocks to prove it!).
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