Birthday Weekend

Diana and her mother’s birthdays are only five days apart. As a result, each year we get together with family and friends (mostly family) and have a big family dinner. It started many years ago, and we’d get together at Old South Mountain Inn, near Boonsboro, Maryland.

Over the years, as the kids got older, and we’d invite them along, it got to be such a big affair that it became impractical (and too expensive) to hold in a restaurant. So we started alternating where it was held, but usually at someone’s home. This year, it was held at our home.

We grilled big steaks, had baked potatoes, a salad with everything, lots of big shrimp, and lots of fun. Traditionally, we start off the evening with strawberry dacquiri’s. I think it was around the end of the second blender full that we discovered that we might also want to drink something else. 🙂

My brother, Jon, was also a guest this year, along with our younger daughter, Tara and her fiancee Jake. Along with Diana’s sister Joyce, her mom and Joyce’s husband, Bruce, we had a great time.

I look forward to this dinner every year. But it’s over for this year. 🙁

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