| Westville - Memorial Day
      Weekend May 22 -24, 2009 | |
| My sister and I had tickets to a concert in
      Fayetteville, AR on the Friday night of Memorial Day weekend, so I decided
      to make a trip of it.  Desirae was brave enough to have both sides of
      her family over for a big cookout on Sunday.  I enjoyed a lot of time
      visiting with family, relaxing, and being spoiled by Mom. The concert was Darius Rucker - we had amazing seats and enjoyed the
      show very much.  | |
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| We got a sneak preview of the set list before the show. | Our seats were directly front & center - you couldn't get closer without sitting on the stage! | 
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| Darius - we really like his new stuff and were glad he played most of his new album, "Learn to Live" | |
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| Saturday we went off shopping & left Dad to pine away for us in his
  shop. Here he misses us terribly already. | Here Mom & Desi wait patiently while I took forever to buy
  Birkenstocks at Flying Possum Leather on Dickson St. in Fayetteville. | 
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| Momma Kitty - always posing 
 | Mom & I took Gran out to eat at Ozark Gardens, a new restaurant in
  Westville. I asked if I could trade rice for double broccoli - and did I ever get broccoli! It was really great. | 
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| Our waiter took this for us in the restaurant. | The sunset from Mom & Dad's driveway as I gave Gran a ride home. | 
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| Here we are at Keith & Desirae's house for a very good cookout. | |
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| Prissy Pants - always a hit with the kids. | Dad & Alex checking out the first-class gun safe Keith built. | 
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| Gracie & Prissy having a waltz | Dead-eye with a camera | 
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| Keith and the "prettiest horse ever", Jack | Dad must have made a good joke - Bob enjoyed it anyway | 
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| Scruffy sporting his "summer do" | Prissy smiling at me | 
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| Here she is, looking serious | Desirae, showing off their cute goats. | 
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| Gran, in danger of a goosing from Scruffy | Morton women | 
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| Bloomers in love | The bar was weighed down by the generous spread | 
|  Alex the photographer |  | 
| Desirae with her "mini me" Gracie, always a cutie. | |
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| Dad giving Prissy a little scratch. | Gran - taking it all in. | 
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| Here I make a new best friend. | |
| Me & Gran |  | 
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| Dad - goofing off with Prissy | Mom - happy because she has a cookie. | 
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| Keith Bloomer | Me & my laptop | 
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| A wren's nest on the front porch.  The bird will come and sit on the eggs when people aren't right close. | Next we took a ride to Greenleaf State Park - the only way we
  could all fit in one car was to get creative with where we put Mom. |