Wow, we knew we had a lot going on this month, but wow? so much and and its over already, so lets recap.......
We started the beginning of the month out with a trip to see my sister, Jody's, family. Lexi, my niece was graduating from high school. So we decided we were going to drive out to NC, 14 hours, I know are we crazy or what? All in all we weren't that crazy, the kids did amazingly well. We had stops planned out for the way out and back, so it really broke up the trip. Our 1st stop was to Cedar Point for an afternoon at the water park, the pix' below were of the last spot at the water park and we probably could have spent more time at that particular spot.
A day and a half later we ended up at our destination, Aunt Jo, Jo's. This was the 1st time in 4 years that we had been together, far tooo long. The girls are not long girls they are definitely young women and ooohhhh am I soo proud of them, they are beautiful ladies:) While we were there we also got to see my brother Mike's family, which was much fun as well. JD and Josh couldn't stop talking and playing and scheming against the girls, it was sooo fun! and Miss Sarah is soo sweet:) Below is a pix of all of the cousins on the Holtz side.
Here is my brother and sister with their cousins
there were also many dress up parties, the girls had a lot of fun entertaining us:)
there were also many dress up parties, the girls had a lot of fun entertaining us:)
So, I forgot to mention earlier that my brother Andrew and his family headed out to NC as well after the girls finished school on June 9th, and I have to say we had both mentioned how excited we were about the food, this family knows how to cook!!! and we also know how to enjoy food too:)
Here goes, Mike and Jody's mom prepared a southern broil, it was soooo good, the flavor was amazing!!! Thank you Sandy for all your hospitality, we really enjoyed ourselves!
Okay, so there has to be a funny on vacation with Mike, I'm having trouble keying it cause I'm laughing........ I digress..... for Lexi's graduation, they had a "pig pickin" that's what they call it in the south, us northerns, a pig roast. So after the graduation Mike wants to make kracklins out of the skin, ??? So he puts the skin in the oven on BROIL, guess what happens, there are flames, is it soda or powder questions? I calmly ask Jody where a fire extinguisher is, oh my, Mike is fanning it (adding O2), and we are hysterically laughing, after we got the fire out of course:) oh by the way, it's soda that puts the fire out:)
