Culmination of a Year's Work: The Family Pot Luck

I just wanted to quickly post about our Family Pot Luck Saturday night.  Yes, it was a huge success!  Everybody was so happy that nobody wanted the evening to end.  Art and I went to bed after midnight.

The food was amazing!!!  All the aunts and cousins totally outdid themselves.  There was so much food.  We figured there might be so we even  went out to buy another larger buffet table.  It worked perfectly.

This photo does not include the desserts.

We did our family history presentation to explain the whole process of how we did our research, what we learned and how to access the information on the DVDs that we gave all the aunts and first cousins.

Throughout the evening, they looked at the photos (in the one hard copy album that we printed) and marveled at the many images that they had not seen before.

Art, my mother and I had such a lovely feeling of accomplishment, knowing we'd given everybody a look into the family past.

One cousin came all the way from California to be at this event and another cousin came from Kauai.  They wanted to be here for the unveiling of the completed project that their father had started over a decade or two earlier.

We discretely went upstairs for a few minutes in the middle of the party so Art could apply the eye drops and no one was the wiser.  I didn't want to use any part of the evening explaining my rather brainless blunder earlier in the day.

Sunday is a happy day, coasting on all the love and happiness of the previous evening.  My eye is feeling better.  I'm very grateful.  I am following the doctor's orders.  Well.. she did say to stay off the computer for a while.

But then again, she didn't know that I can touch type and I can also post with one eye.  However, I'll have to save my visiting for later.