Sunday Lunch – May 10

My only responsibility was to set up the tables for the meal. Since Mark and Diane arrived from Maine on Friday evening, they did some of the table lifting and arranging. Deb said I should set up for twelve people. (She said there will be 11 – possibly 12 people.)

I wanted to try something different with the tables and suggested we set up 4 side by side. Diane suggested that we arrange them in a slight diagonal format from the room. Which doesn’t really show up in the way I took the photo.

We loved having eleven people at our table: Jeff (son), Roy (son-in-love), Jesse (grandson – Jere & Kristen’s son), Lydia (granddaughter – Mark & Diane’s daughter), Cerwin (next to my empty seat), Mark (son-in-love), Diane (daughter), Deb (daughter), Kristen (daughter-in-love), and Jere (son).

Our children and in-loves decided to order lunch from Olive Garden. Roy and Deb picked it up on their way from Southern Lancaster County to our house in Northern Lancaster County.

There were three or four different meals. Each person took their choice of food for their plate. There were also bread sticks.

You can’t have an Olive Garden meal without their delicious salad.

Dessert was a variety of cookies from Amy’s Mixing Bowl LLC – our niece, and our children’s cousin.

Cerwin and I added a variety of Fox Meadows Creamery ice cream flavors for dessert.

How many siblings does it take to teach Jeff something new on his smart phone? All three of them. 🙂

Deb took this good picture of Jeff and me – I think before the meal. He is the one who made me a mother – sixty-one and a half years ago.

Tomorrow: Part 2 will be photos of my gifts.