Honestly, I've been pretty miserable

most of this week - I have bone spurs in my neck. 

[Just keeping it real, folks -]

Doctors say any trauma might have caused them -- 

Probably the wreck we had about 30 years ago when we flipped end over end 8 - 10 times 

[the reason I still refuse to ride any amusement ride that falls forward..] 

So anyway, last weekend I worked around the house from 

sun up to sundown for several days, and threw in the fun moon pie festival,

 and I honestly could hardly move by Monday morning. 

Felt like I'd been run over by a truck... 

But enough of that! [Ibuprofen is a miracle drug.] 

I'm feeling SO MUCH better. 

And that's nice since we had some fun times planned with family and friends -- 

 Enjoyed our local [free] picnic in the park with good friends 

[I'll share more about it all in a few weeks -] 

But I will say the food was good

 and the bands were fun 

- but a little loud and interfered with our visiting!

Next time we'll move a little further back - lol

... and it's AMAZING that it never rained on us!

 We also had a really great day when my family came to visit 

and we enjoyed some of Craig's yummy fish - 

Truly -- he can cook some fish!

He had a little helper -- 

And we had fun time just visiting and hanging out - 

visiting together -

 

And loved sharing 'campfire' time and 

s'mores with our youngest member of the family

[there was lots of bubble fun too!]

She's cutie-pie, that's for sure!

It was a good day - had been far too long since we'd had time together

  with no agenda.

Very nice.
And for those who didn't get the memo - 
we were playing tilt-a-head 
so that each successive photo would look different - lol

{Much thanks to Kelly for some of these photos!}

-- I'll be sharing more details about the day

later on in the summer ---