Summer Fun...

This past weekend I did lots of errands and caught up with some friends at a going away party.

However the highlight of my weekend was my Family Reunion!  We do it every two years and all of my cousins, aunts and uncles come from all over to join us!  This year we had approx 150 people attend, but I know if everyone was to come we would be very close to 200 if not over.

I enjoy this reunion every other year we have it.  We all catch up, laugh, and marvel at the size of the kids that have grown in those past years.  This year I was excited to hear so many of my cousins were headed off to their first year or university or college, excitted to see a cousin expecting and above all else, to laugh with all my family.

Thank you to my family from Detroit that were the host  family this year, the weather was great, the food was delicious and as always much love to all my Italian family!

Here is all of us for the tradition group shot!  SAY CHEESE!!!

 

I volunteered to take the group shot this year, so this is the way to make sure I included! 

Just me and a few fellow cousins!..lol

 

and here is the photo from the 2008 reunion, still marvel at how many of us come out to this event!

Fall Fun...

I hope you all had a great weekend, it was a very relaxing long weekend for me!  I got so much done around the house which I was more then thrilled to get done.

For something fun to do this long weekend I tagged along with my little cousins to the Erin Fall Fair.  I have not been to many fall fairs, I am as City as it gets, however I wanted to something fun for fall and what is more fall, then baking, farm animals, large pumpkins, and of course FAMILY.  The day was sunny and hot hot hot.  It was close to 30degrees and for mid-October it could not have been a nicer day! 

My cousin Joanne deserves a shout out, because she submitted her baking to the fair’s baking competition, and her tea biscuits and cake both won SECOND place in their categories!  How great is that!  And my little cousin came SECOND as well in a necklace making competition, she made an amazing necklace with pasta and ribbon, she is a jewelry designer in the making! 

These are a few snap shots of the wonderful time I had at the fair!  Made for a great end of a long weekend.