Didn't have time to check sites today because we had Allie's family graduation celebration tonight! For awhile there, I wasn't sure we'd be able to "pull it off"! Allie and her friend Amanda were here about 1:30 to go swimming. They got out of the pool to watch the space launch...and when it was postponed decided to go to the high school to pick up a few more things and say their goodbyes to some of their teachers. About 3:30 Sara called to tell me to "keep Allie right where she is...we're in the middle of a storm here at home and it's been a long time since I've seen winds this strong!" Katie told her it looked like they were "going through a car wash" the rain was so hard and from all directions. David sent me a text from work...they were in the "safe room" under a tornado warning! 🌪 It' got here about 4 PM and while it thankfully didn't last long, we had heavy rain and wind too.
Total of 45 minutes and the sun was shining again...and we "carried on". Took our family graduation pictures...
...and sat down to dinner. They must have all worked hard today

; they ate almost all of a 16 pound turkey (I have a leg, wing and about 6 pieces of white meat left!) stuffing (Treavor said it was the best I've ever made

); out of an 8 pound bag of potatoes that I mashed, there's about a cup left over

; squash casserole is half gone; blackeye peas and cream peas are ALL gone and there's 1 ear of corn on the cob left!

They finished it off with each having a piece of chocolate cake...and the kids had chocolate chip cookies too!

At least I don't have a lot of leftovers to put away! Allie loved Miss Minnie...but, of course, the biggest smile was the "money envelope"!
Picked up another scholarship check when she was at school as well as this medallion...
The "48 hour countdown" begins....
