Shrimp and Trains

Last weekend was just the best ever! First Ryan came from San Diego on Thursday. On Friday Brendan graduated from Wando High School and on Saturday Tom arrived with Holly.

OK, Ryan is my son and the father of my 2 youngest grandson's, Kevin - 3 years and Justin - 4 months. Brendan is my oldest grandson and lives just down the street from me. Tom is the great person who took in our wonderful dog, Holly, when she said "No!" to boat life and sailing. Tom has been Holly's dad now for 3 years and she absolutely adores him.

So, on Saturday night we all got together at our house for a celebration. We had Peel 'n Eat Shrimp for dinner as it is everyone's favorite. The 8 of us devoured 7 and a half pounds of large shrimp! I think a few had more than a pound because I sure didn't eat a pound - as much as I love it!

In this picture - Brendan, Casey and Tom

Michael, Brendan and Casey

I get so few pictures of Ryan so with this one - I treated it special because he is special! I miss him so much with all the miles between San Diego and Charleston. It was just the BEST to have him out here with us for a few days.


After dinner we all enjoyed a great game of Mexican Train. It continues to be the family favorite and we thank Rick and Tanya up in Nova Scotia all the time for teaching it to us.

Brendan and his mom, Christie were having fun!

Here is a picture of one of our trains.












And now - here is a picture of our Holly!! Yes, I cried a little when I first saw her and I think she remembered me because she didn't normally warm much to people and she just kept kissing both Kirby and I! It was wonderful to see her again and to know that she is so happy in her new life. She even has a little doggie brother to play with.


I really wanted both of my dogs to like each other but Holly never did like other dogs and always was the "Alpha Dog". Jake is extremely mellow and loves everyone. He was really shocked when she snapped and snarled at him. He spent the remainder of the day pretty much hiding away. (We decided it was best not to have Granddog Socks come visit since Holly was exerting her Alpha-ness and we already had 3 dogs in the house making noise).

So, I didn't get a picture of my 2 dogs next to each other. I had to create my own!