Farm Day During the Re[n]union?

I talked to my boss that is a "farmer" to see if we could come see what he does during our family reunion. He sent me this link describing a previous farm day. I think it would be fun to do as a family (at least for those who are interested). Let me know what you think, and I'll let him know. When we get dates finalized, I'll schedule something with him, if people are interested.

Sleeping Arrangements

Our basement is all but complete. I was able to get the extra carpet that we had in the basement before and combine it with the left over carpet from our installation and cover the majority of the storage room with both pad and carpet. It looks pretty good and feels just as nice as the new carpet in the rest of the basement. That leaves our house with the following sleeping options:

2 unoccupied upstairs bedrooms (one with a crib)

1 smallish-basement bedroom with a queen-size bed in it

1 good sized play room in the basement

1 big (and nicely carpeted) storage room in the basement

I envisioned something like this: Mandy and her family upstairs between the two rooms, Jessica's and Andy's families in the basement between the bedroom and the play/storage rooms.

We also have our neighbor next door who has a guest room that Mom and Dad could sleep in if they don't want to be in the hotel the whole time. And, we have all the main floor couches/floor space for Ralph's kids if the want to come without there parents, or if Ralph and family can come, we have a neighbor down the street has an empty finished basement that they could occupy.

For bedding we have an extra queen size bed, 2 blow up queen sized mattresses and 1 blow up queen size that belongs to Andy (he accidentally left it here...). We've also got 4 sleeping bags. We can borrow other blow up mattresses as need, too.

Those are my thoughts...

Ok, so I made my blog private and then posted. I sent out invites to you all, if you didn't get them, please let me know. Thanks!

Reunion??

So it seems that we have not made a decision about a reunion this summer...

What are you all thinking? Is it a no for this year, but try again for next? If we do that then let's say that we pick a time and place and commit. Hopefully we can all go, but of not those who can go will go.

Or are we on for this summer, those who can go? I think we would all love to this settled so that we can each make our summer plans.

Please respond to this post by the end of this week what your opinion is. We will have a decision by the end the week.

I hope we all know that we love each other and would love to see each other. We also know how busy each other are...

I built some shelves in the utility corridor for food storage soup cans and such. Thought you might like to see it. Mom unloaded all the cans from her pantry into it, and it nearly filled it up, but alleviated much weight on the pantry shelves.