The early morning hours of Thurs. July 6, ushered in our 10 days of family get together here in Vancouver, WA! 
Gemma coming at 1 AM...
Taco Bell at 1:15 AM...
Gemma, Jude, Gerry, Debbie
our first guests to arrive....
Gram G finished her preparations at 11PM...
Days leading up to then were filled with getting grass planted in the front yard, a new sink, cleaning the front room and bathroom and fixing up her outdoor living space...
Out with the old and in with the new, but not before buying the wrong size sink locally, ordering the correct one online and returning the wrong one....
Real plumbers drive pink trucks...
and instruct how to clean a spa tub that has not been turned on for 5 years...
Transforming a messy room into a temporary bedroom....
Cleaning my outdoor living space to the music of the resident songbird....
A redneck plastic shade wanting to be a decorative fence....
Lots of raspberries
Waiting for baby
dragon....
Jake finishing the front lawn...
Thursday evening everyone over dinner...best looking potato peelers and cute brownie maker
Story of Gram G's homegrown raspberry dump pie.
Many years ago my friend Barb gave me a recipe for fresh raspberry pie with a berry gel. After making a juice from berries one thickens it with corn starch. That ended up in a glob of chunky red stuff. Second try I mixed the corn starch with a small amount of water. I had already bought a graham cracker crust that was cracked in pieces after I opened it, but I went on to make the pie. The next day granddaughter Gemma was carrying it out the door when it slipped and landed upside down, turning it into upside down dump pie. It may not look artistic, but it was still yummy smothered in whip topping. The end..
Hot beefs and all the fixings!!
Girls' cheers...
Family....
Happy cousins!!
Family Friday lunch at Red Robin.14 at lunch....5 more already here....
12 more to come....5 can't make it.
Friday night fun at Deb's
Chocolates for all...
Lots more family activities happening right now. Ya all come back to check us out soon!!
This has been a good 7 "week long party" days in the life of Grandma G.
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and increase in number'." (Genesis 1:27-28)
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