Happy New Year

On New Year's Day we headed over to Paul's brother Mark's house for dinner. His cousin Dede from Boston was in town visiting her sister Sue (and Bob) from St. Paul. It was great to see DeDe again after staying with her last summer and enjoying the Red Sox game and a fish dinner that was out of this world. (Dede is in the front on the right next to Grandpa Roger).Another cousin came up from Mankato/Butterfield - Casey Lloyd and his wife Diann.
Casey's mom, Ruth, was Roger's sister (Paul's dad). He does play-by-play for the Mankato State basketball team on the radio.
I wish I had been able to get all the cousins in one picture together like we did at Thanksgiving at the Catlins. It's nearly impossible to get everyone's schedules to match, and here we did it just on the spur of the moment.
Jonathon (Casey and Diann's son) was here from California where he works for a television news channel. The younger generation was conspicuously absent from this event - I think they were all still sleeping in after greeting the new year!! And, of course, Christie and Alison had long ago flew the coop back to New York.
Drew and Anna (where are you, Anna?) came down from their rooms for the food and to say hi to the visiting elders. Anna taught me how to play with her online pets. Virtual pets are really very easy to take care of!
Drew has his knapsack handy to store extra treats in case of a food shortage. He is shooting up like a weed! We ended singing around the piano - the last gasp of Christmas carols - but it was great fun no matter how awful we might sound!